Joseph Delaney
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Series
Last apprentice volume 2
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Now thirteen years old, Tom Ward continues his apprenticeship with the Spook as they confront a dangerous bane who can control people's thoughts.
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Last apprentice volume 4
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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.
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
688 pages
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."
5) Ghost Prison
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Once I felt someone touch the back of my neck. It felt like the tip of an ice-cold finger. But when I turned to look there was nobody there. Night falls, the moon rises, and fifteen-year-old Billy starts his first night as a prison guard. But this is no ordinary prison. There are haunted cells that can't be used, whispers and cries in the night...and the dreaded Witch Well. Billy is warned to stay away from the prisoner down in the Witch Well. But...
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The conclusion to Joseph Delaney's three-book arc about Thomas Ward that began with A New Darkness! The chilling and action-packed adventure from the internationally bestselling Last Apprentice series will delight fans new and old.
In his job as the county spook, seventeen-year-old Thomas Ward is used to battling boggarts, witches, and other creatures of the dark. But now he and his apprentice, Jenny, must team up with former rivals and enemies to...
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 3
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
489 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
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.
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Series
Last apprentice volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
344 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
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."
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Last apprentice volume 7
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
436 pages : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Returning from Greece, Tom and the Spook find that their home, including the Spook's precious library of knowledge, has been burned to the ground, and that their battle against the denizens of the dark must continue.
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Last apprentice volume 5
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
511 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
The continuing adventures of Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son and apprentice to the local Spook, who faces danger and death daily in his job protecting the region from evil.
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Series
Last apprentice volume 6
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
395 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Tom is reunited with his mother and must return to Greece to face a new and terrible threat from the dark forces, and a momentous decision must be made, causing a serious rift between Tom and the Spook that threatens to separate them forever.
12) Slither
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Series
Last apprentice volume 11
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
A nightmare-plagued eldest farmer's daughter, Nessa, is sacrificed to the blood-drinking Slither, who agrees to help guide Nessa's younger sisters to safety in return.
13) Lure of the dead
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Series
Last apprentice volume 10
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
6 CDS (7.25 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As creatures of the dark hunt for the witch assassin Grimalkin, who carries the captured Fiend's head, Spook's apprentice Tom tries to find a way to finish this terrifying evil once and for all.
14) Seventh son
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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In a time of enchantments when legends and magic collide, the sole remaining warrior of a mystical order travels to find a prophesized hero born with incredible powers. Torn from his quiet life as a farmhand, the unlikely young hero embarks on a daring adventure with his battle-hardened mentor to vanquish a dark queen and the army of supernatural assassins she has dispatched against their kingdom.