Joseph Delaney
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
As the Spook's apprentice, Tom Ward must protect the country from the creatures of the dark. But now a dangerous ancient witch, Ordeen is about to rise. If Tom joins the army Tom's mother has mustered to confront Ordeen, the Spook will abandon him as his apprentice. What sacrifices will be made for the battle against the dark?
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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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 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
4) Slither
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 11
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
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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 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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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 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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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.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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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 9
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 13
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"Thomas Ward faces his ultimate test as he and his master prepare to deal with the Fiend once and for all"--
11) A new darkness
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Although his apprenticeship was not done when John Gregory died, Tom Ward spent years learning to fight boggarts, witches, demons, and more and feels prepared to be the new county Spook, but while his youth causes many people to distrust him, Jenny is determined to be his apprentice.
12) I am Alice
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 12
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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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"--
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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."
15) The Spook's tale
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
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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.
16) The Dark Army
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Series
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
The second book in a new trilogy from Joseph Delaney, the author of the internationally best-selling Last Apprentice series.
Tom Ward is now spook of the county, and with his apprentice, Jenny, he continues the fight against boggarts, witches, and terrifying new creatures of the dark. Together with the witch assassin, Grimalkin, Tom and Jenny lead an army into battle against a dangerous enemy—but it all goes catastrophically wrong.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
"In his job as the county's 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 fight the evil Kobalos warriors intent on destroying the county. The fight has cost the life of a strong ally, Grimalkin the witch assassin. Determined to end the war with the demons, Tom leads Jenny and Alice to Pendle for one last...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015
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Description
A blood-curdling original novella from the world of the internationally bestselling fantasy adventure series that inspired the major motion picture Seventh Son! This short novella stars the Spook's seventh apprentice, a boy named Will Johnson.
Will is a seventh son of a seventh son, the perfect candidate to train as the Spook's apprentice . . . but Will is lazy. Mr. Gregory is giving him one last chance to shape up or be sent home. When Mr.
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
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 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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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