Joseph Delaney
1) Seventh son
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"The powers of evil are strengthening, and only one man holds them back. Now that man needs an apprentice. Tom Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son, and he has been chosen. When one of the world's most malevolent witches escapes, Tom will face his first test. Many apprentices have come before. They have failed, or fled, or died. If Tom succeeds--and if he survives--he'll be the last apprentice"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 5
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
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.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After the death or disappearances of twenty-nine ghost apprentices, only twelve-year-old Thomas Ward is left to fill the position. He goes off with old Spook to learn the trade of ridding the village of evil such as witches and creepy things. Thomas is unaware that soon he must destroy the most terrifying witch of all, Mother Malkin.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 4
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
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.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 6
Pub. Date
2009
Description
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.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 5
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Bloodeye, an ancient water witch, emerges and Tom must train under Bill Arkwright, a man who has unusual training techniques, in order to fight her.
7) Haunted
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
In this title, Derek Landy, Philip Reeve, Joseph Delaney, Susan Cooper, Eleanor Updale, Jamila Gavin, Mal Peet, Matt Haig, Berlie Doherty, Robin Jarvis and Sam Llewellyn have come together to bring you ten ghost stories: from a ghost walk around York; to a drowned boy, who's determined to find someone to play with; to a lost child trapped in a mirror, ready to pull you in; to devilish creatures, waiting with bated breath for their next young victim;...