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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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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." Can Thomas succeed? Will he learn the difference between a benign witch and a malevolent one? And what will happen if Thomas accidentally frees Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the county?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, have been successful in ridding the county of witches, ghosts, and boggarts, but they face a much more formidable task when they travel to Priestown to confront the Bane and the Quisitor.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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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.
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The Last Apprentice series follows the terrifying adventures of the Spook's apprentice, Thomas Ward. But Tom's is only one story. There are others. . . .
The Spook himself was once an apprentice. How did he begin his training?
And what of Alice, the young witch who is Tom's closest ally? How did she overcome her dark past?
What did the witch assassin Grimalkin do to become the most deadly and feared witch in the county?
And,
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Deftly mixing fantasy, horror, and high adventure, Joseph Delaney's critically acclaimed Last Apprentice series finds new fans with each passing entry. Returning home from their last epic battle, Thomas Ward, his mentor the Spook, and Alice discover their home besieged by enemy soldiers. Now on the run, they flee to the island of Mona. There they will face an old foe who has grown insanely powerful since their last encounter. "The Last Apprentice...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Recounts the frightening adventures of Thomas Ward, who is Spook's apprentice, covering details about Alice's dark past, how Grimalkin the witch assassin became so fearsome, and other details of the county's various villains.
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English
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Beware a girl in pointy shoes! A girl wearing pointy shoes might be a witch. And the first thing a spook's apprentice learns is never, ever to trust a witch. In this bone-chilling collection of tales, you will learn exactly why that is, as you encounter:a fair and beautiful woman with green scales running down her spine... a dead witch who lurks under rotting leaves and hunts for blood... Alice, Tom Ward's best friend, who once lived with one of the...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A dangerous few months lie ahead-ones which some of us will be hard-pressed to survive.
Thomas Ward has served as the Spook's apprentice for three years. He has battled boggarts, witches, demons, and even the devil himself. Tom has enemies: The Fiend stalks him, waiting for a moment of weakness. The terrifying Morrigan, goddess of witches, warned him never to step foot on her homeland, Ireland.
But now war has consumed their own country, and Tom,...
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Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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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.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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.
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English
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Nobody enters here after dark. Come back in the morning . . . if you're still breathing. Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son, and apprentice to the local Spook. He has battled boggarts, witches, and the most powerful evils of the Dark. But his most trying task is yet to come. When Tom and the Spook are deceived by one they trust, they find themselves in the most terrifying danger yet. Blood-hungry creatures have invaded a sleepy village....
17) Lure of the dead
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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.
18) Ghost Prison
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English
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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...
19) I am Alice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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"--
20) Slither
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
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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