Revenge of the witch

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Label

Revenge of the witch

Statement of responsibility

Joseph Delaney ; illustrations by Patrick Arrasmith

Title variation

Last apprentice

Title variation remainder

revenge of the witch

Creator

• Delaney, Joseph, 1945-
• trueDelaney, Joseph, 1945-

Contributor

• Arrasmith, Patrick

Illustrator

• Arrasmith, Patrick

Subject

• Witches -- Fiction
• trueWitches
• Apprentices -- Fiction
• Apprentices -- Juvenile fiction
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueBooks to movies
• trueBoy apprentices
• trueFantasy fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueGood and evil
• trueHorror
• trueLoneliness
• trueLoneliness in boys
• Paranormal fiction
• truePreteen boys
• trueRevenge
• trueSupernatural
• Supernatural -- Fiction
• trueWard, Tom (Fictitious character)
• trueTwelve-year-old boys
• Young adult fiction
• Witches -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• trueHorror
• Juvenile fiction
• Young adult fiction
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueBooks to movies
• trueFantasy fiction
• trueFirst person narratives

Language

eng

Summary

Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties."

Member of

• trueSpook's apprentice.
• trueLast apprentice
• Last apprentice, 01

Theme

• trueWitchcraft and the occult
• trueLast of their kind

Storyline

• truePlot-driven

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueCreepy
• trueGruesome
• trueAtmospheric

Award

• Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland), Grades 4-6, 2008.
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2006
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2005
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2011
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2006
• USBBY Outstanding International Book, 2006.

Cataloging source

IG#

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Intended audience

840

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.D373183

LC item number

Rev 2006b

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

840

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 5
• 8

Series statement

The last apprentice

Series volume

book 1

Target audience

pre adolescent