The Spook's Apprentice: Book 1 (The Wardstone Chronicles) (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Spook's Apprentice Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son and has been apprenticed to the local Spook. The job is hard, the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts. But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the horror begins.
Full description- Publisher: RED FOX
- Published: 05 March 2009
- Format: Paperback 352 pages
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- Categories: Horror & Ghost
- ISBN 13: 9781862308534 ISBN 10: 1862308535
- Sales rank: 7,503
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Best books review
This book is meant for younger teens and the faceted I'm 22 and still thought book one of this series was absolutely brilliant. The book was simply to read but with lots of details and interesting facts about this weird fantasy world. I guess what I loved best was the base of the story line the whole idea of spooks that look after the world by saving it from evil beings such as witches and ghost and lots more. There was lots of spooky goings on and such fun and exciting action that you can't help but love, Most of all I loved that i could read the book to my son (who's 6) and he loved it just as much as i did. The characters are great and you soon fall in love with them and also feel sorry for tom and his mistakes it's a great and fun books. A must read!! by annmarie ager
Someone's Got To Do It!
Thomas J Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son, as such he is a natural enemy of the dark and all that dwell with it. It is because of this that Tom as been accepted as apprentice to the Spook, but there have been other apprentices before him, all of then seventh sons of seventh sons and not all of them had made it through their apprenticeships alive.
Not yet thirteen, Tom has been sent far from home and thrown into a world danger. He has been given a month to prove that he might have what it takes to be a Spook's apprentice, but first Tom will have to last through his first night. Something that's definitely not as easy as it sounds.
There is much to learn as a Spook's apprentice and if Tom isn't paying attention he may soon be following the path of many an apprentice before to an early grave. But Tom has advantages over the other apprentices before him. The first is being his mam's son, a mysterious woman with her own talents. The second is Alice, a young girl in pointy shoes, but will she become Tom's greatest friend or worst enemy?
The Spook's Apprentice is not a position to be taken lightly and in a world as old and rich in history as this only a Spook has the power to fight the evils that lurk within these pages. However, despite the staff he carries and the cloak and beard he wears the Spook is not your normal wizard, he fights without magic but with commonsense, knowledge and courage to prevail. It's a Spooky fun beginning to great new series. by Larissa McGrath
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