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Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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."
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
810L
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
810L
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.
5) Slither
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 11
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
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 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
800L
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 7
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
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 5
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
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 8
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
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.
11) Lure of the dead
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 10
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
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.
12) The seventh son
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
830L
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."
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 9
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
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 13
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1050L
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.
17) I am Alice
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 12
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
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 Ward is left. He's the last hope; the last apprentice. Can Thomas succeed? Will he learn the difference between a benign witch and a malevolent one? Does the Spook's warning against girls...