num_pages: 325
description: 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, contain witches and bind boggarts. But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the horror begins..
language: English
title: The Spook's Apprentice
titlecomplete: The Spook's Apprentice (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #1)
characters: Alice Deane, Mr. Gregory, Thomas J. Ward
genres: Middle Grade, Adventure, Young Adult, Witches, Magic, Horror, Fantasy, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal
ratings_count: 48769
series: The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles
publisher: Red Fox