That mistake basically sets forth the whole series and book.It's after this point that Mr. Someone the spook said he should avoid at all cost.

It doesn't help matters that barely two weeks into his apprenticeship he meets Alice. Needless to say Tom isn't looking forward to the job. People need them, but they don't want to be around them. Spooks are people who deal with all things evil, paranormal, or just not right. Young Tom is the seventh son of the seventh son and it is his mother's wish that he become a 'Spook'. This book was written for mid-teens and here i am almost 25 and i got scared.The setting it what i would say 17th century Europe. Our current literary culture has sort of white washed all things paranormal so that they're aren't scary anymore. I have to say quite refreshing to see all the things that go bumping through the night in their original forms. Now at first it took me awhile to get into it, but when it did. I picked this book up at Borders last weekend and started reading it almost immediately. Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones. (The Last Apprentice, Book Five) Greenwillow, 2008. (The Last Apprentice, Book Three) Greenwillow, 2007.ĭelaney, Joseph. (The Last Apprentice, Book Two) Greenwillow, 2006.ĭelaney, Joseph. (The Last Apprentice, Book Four) Greenwillow, 2008.ĭelaney, Joseph. At the back is his journal with secrets for survival, the notes he takes on how to bind a boggart, the four types of witches, and other useful information he learns firsthand, some of which he foolishly disregards, like never trusting a village girl with pointy shoes.īillingsley, Franny. Tom's riveting narrative is probably far too chilling and gruesome as a read-aloud, but it flows elegantly like an old English folktale. The Spook gives him a terrifying test-he must spend the night alone in the dank and grim haunted house at number thirteen Watery Lane, keep his candle lit, and find his way down to the cellar at midnight. On his first day, Thomas must prove his worth. With no more prospects in life than milking cows and spreading manure on his father’s farm, he quite likes the idea of becoming the apprentice to the Spook, a solitary old man who walks the County, protecting farms and villages from witches, boggarts, ghosts, and gasts. Thomas Ward, the left-handed 12-year-old seventh son of a seventh son, has the gift of seeing things that others can’t. Readers will not sleep at night if they’re foolhardy enough to open the covers after sunset. Fifth and sixth graders who think they like scary books are going to clamor for this one, the first in a series of five, once they see the dark and foreboding moonlit cover, but let me warn you-it's really scary.

Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney