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Last apprentice

Author:
Delaney, Joseph, 1945
 
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Star rating for Revenge of the witch
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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." 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,...
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Star rating for Curse of the bane
Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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.
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Star rating for Night of the soul-stealer
Series Volume:
3.
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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Star rating for Attack of the Fiend
Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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.
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Star rating for Wrath of the Bloodeye
Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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Star rating for Clash of the demons
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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.
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Star rating for Rise of the huntress
Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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Star rating for Rage of the fallen
Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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.
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Star rating for Grimalkin, the witch assassin
Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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.
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Star rating for Lure of the dead
Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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.

11. Slither

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Star rating for Slither
Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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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Star rating for I am Alice
Series Volume:
12.
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."
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Star rating for Fury of the seventh son
Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Thomas Ward faces his ultimate test as he and his master prepare to deal with the Fiend once and for all"--