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Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Warning: Not to be listened to after dark
Capturing witches, Binding boggarts, Driving away ghosts
For years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil. Now his time is coming to an end. But who will take over for him? Twenty-nine apprentices have tried — some floundered, some fled, some failed to stay alive.
Only Thomas Ward is left. He's the last hope; the last apprentice.
...Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 1
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2006.
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties.".
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Now thirteen years old, Tom Ward continues his apprenticeship with the Spook as they confront a dangerous bane who can control people's thoughts.
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 4
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness.
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 3
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 6
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
As sixty-year-old John Gregory reflects on the past, he reveals how the world of ghosts, ghasts, witches, and boggarts was exposed to him and he later became the Spook, even though his first intention had been to join the priesthood.
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 8
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Apprentice Tom and the Spook for whom he works flee to Ireland, where a powerful witch has joined forces with the dark mages trying to call forth ancient powers to destroy Tom.
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 9
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Provides insights into the life of Grimalkin, one of the deadliest witches in the country, if not the world, whose uneasy truce with the Spook's apprentice, Tom, unites them against the ultimate evil of the Fiend.
10) I am Alice
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 12
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Told from the point of view of Alice, best friend "and true love" to Tom, the spook's last apprentice. Alice is the most powerful witch in the world, and she ventures into the dark itself. Alice Dean's destiny is intertwined with Tom Ward's. But he's going to be the next Spook, and she's a witch, possibly the most powerful one the world has ever seen. To rid the world of its greatest evil, the Fiend, Alice will venture into the depths of the dark...
11) Seventh son
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties.".
12) Slither
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume eleven
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014, c2013
Language
English
Description
Slither lurks in woods and towns, hunting for human blood, but before he can feast on three lovely sisters, their dying father binds the monster to a bargain.
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