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Author
Series
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." 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...
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 2
Lexile measure
850L
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 3
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
489 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; maps ; 21 cm.
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 4
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
532 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
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 5
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
511 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 6
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
395 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 6
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
166 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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 7
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 8
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
401 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
First Edition.
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ready to be presented to the last apprentice, Tom Ward, the spook's notebook contains instructions for vanquishing boggarts, witches, the unquiet dead, and other dark creatures and spirits.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
387 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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.
13) Lure of the dead
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 10
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
418 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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) The ghost prison
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
92 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Billy guards a castle prison. But it isn't just criminals he'll be guarding--the ghosts of executed prisoners haunt the place"--
15) I am Alice
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 12
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 county has ever seen. To rid the world of its greatest evil, the Fiend, Alice will venture into the depths of the dark"--
16) Slither
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 11
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
xvii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 13
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Ward faces his ultimate test as he and his master prepare to deal with the Fiend once and for all"--
18) The seventh son
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014] ;
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
688 pages ; 21 cm.
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."
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