May 2009
The Last Apprentice : Revenge of the Witch
by Joseph Delaney
At that moment, just when I thought I might go out of my mind with terror, the air suddenly became much colder and I sensed something to my right. Someone else had joined me in the pit. Someone who was standing where it was impossible to stand. Half his body was on view; the rest was embedded in the wall of the earth.
It was a boy not much older than me.
It was the ghost of Billy Bradley.
Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son. Inheritance is out of the question for a seventh son, so Thomas' father finds him a trade: Spook's apprentice. But a seventh son of a seventh son has gifts that ordinary people do not have. The Spook, Old Gregory, knows Thomas is his last hope; Thomas is his last apprentice. The only person standing in Thomas' way is the local girl Alice and her Aunt, Bony Lizzie. Is Bony Lizzie a witch? What happened to the previous apprentice, Billy Bradley? Will Thomas survive to take over the Spook's trade? This is a book you can't put down, but don't read it past midnight!
This synopsis was written by a San José Public Library
librarian.
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