Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles | Park County Library System

1) Revenge of the witch

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

1

Earliest Publication Date

2005

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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."

2) Curse of the bane

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

2

Earliest Publication Date

2006

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Now thirteen years old, Tom Ward continues his apprenticeship with the Spook as they confront a dangerous bane who can control people's thoughts.

3) Night of the soul-stealer

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

3

Earliest Publication Date

2007

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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.

4) Attack of the Fiend

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

4

Earliest Publication Date

2008

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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.

5) Wrath of the bloodeye

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

5

Earliest Publication Date

2008

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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.

6) A coven of witches

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

6

Earliest Publication Date

2010

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Separate tales reveal the backgrounds of four terrifying witches, including Alice and the Spook's love, Meg.

7) Clash of the demons

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

6

Earliest Publication Date

2009

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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.

8) Rise of the huntress

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

7

Earliest Publication Date

2010

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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.

9) Rage of the fallen

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

8

Earliest Publication Date

2011

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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.

10) Grimalkin, the witch assassin

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

9

Earliest Publication Date

2012

Summary

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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.

11) Lure of the dead

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

10

Earliest Publication Date

2012

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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) Slither

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

11

Earliest Publication Date

2013

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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.

13) I am Alice

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

12

Earliest Publication Date

2013

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

14) Fury of the seventh son

Author

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-2022

Volume

13

Earliest Publication Date

2014

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"Thomas Ward faces his ultimate test as he and his master prepare to deal with the Fiend once and for all"-- Provided by publisher.

15) The Seventh Apprentice

Author

Delaney, Joseph

Earliest Publication Date

2015

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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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