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Series: Last Apprentice

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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2012
GRIMALKIN THE WITCH ASSASSIN
by Joseph Delaney, illustrated by Patrick Arrasmith
"A good balance between dark action and emotional costs. (Fantasy. 11-15)"
This installment deviates from The Last Apprentice's usual formula, following witch assassin Grimalkin instead of Spook's apprentice Thomas Ward after the events of Rage of the Fallen (2011). Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2008
ATTACK OF THE FIEND
by Joseph Delaney, illustrated by Patrick Arrasmith
"Not recommended for beneath-the-sheets reading. (Fantasy. 11-13)"
Once again packaged as a doorstopper but reading as if it's half the length, the fourth episode in the harrowing training of teenaged Tom Ward as a bulwark against all that is evil and supernatural brings some disturbing revelations about his absent mother's identity. Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2007
NIGHT OF THE SOUL STEALER
by Joseph Delaney, illustrated by Patrick Arrasmith
"Arrasmith's dark chapter-head illustrations and appended "notebook" pages add atmosphere but not vitality to this limp, overlong outing. (Fantasy. 11-13)"
The third and weakest episode in Delaney's Last Apprentice series takes narrator Tom Ward, his secretive master Old Gregory and canny young witch Alice to winter quarters on bleak Anglezarke Moor where, thanks to massive contrivances, they survive encounters with three blood-sucking witches, a boggart or two and a necromancer out to raise one of the old gods. Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2006
CURSE OF THE BANE
by Joseph Delaney, illustrated by Patrick Arrasmith
"Readers will be hooked from the first line. (Fantasy. 11-13)"
Opening with a victim's agonized scream, Delaney returns to the boggart-ridden County for a second gruesome, lickety-split episode featuring young Tom Ward, seventh son of a seventh son and for some months now apprenticed to the Spook, a hunter of malign spirits. Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2005
REVENGE OF THE WITCH
by Joseph Delaney
"Stay tuned. (Fantasy. 11-13)"
Readers seeking lots of up-close encounters with the unquiet dead and other creepy entities need look no further. Read full book review >