Christopher Evan Welch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game against Denver, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game." "With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughingstock and, of course, was immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all...
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
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As the Spook's apprentice, Tom Ward must protect the country from the creatures of the dark. But now a dangerous ancient witch, Ordeen is about to rise. If Tom joins the army Tom's mother has mustered to confront Ordeen, the Spook will abandon him as his apprentice. What sacrifices will be made for the battle against the dark?
5) House Rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
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Description
They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn't know...
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Returning from Greece, Tom and the Spook find that their home, including the Spook's precious library of knowledge, has been burned to the ground, and that their battle against the denizens of the dark must continue.
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Series
Last apprentice volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Apprentice Tom and the Spook for whom he works flee to Ireland, where a powerful witch has joined forces with the dark mages trying to call forth ancient powers to destroy Tom.
8) Interworld
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
As creatures of the dark hunt for the witch assassin Grimalkin, who carries the captured Fiend's head, Spook's apprentice Tom tries to find a way to finish this terrifying evil once and for all.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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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.
11) Winter chill
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A small town is rocked by a string of suspicious accidents in this suspense thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Child.
The moment Marian Larsen sees the patrol car stop outside her house, she feels a shiver of foreboding. The news is even worse than she feared. Marian's husband and young daughter have been in a snowmobile crash. Dan is paralyzed and Laura is dead, her body broken on the icy ground....
The moment Marian Larsen sees the patrol car stop outside her house, she feels a shiver of foreboding. The news is even worse than she feared. Marian's husband and young daughter have been in a snowmobile crash. Dan is paralyzed and Laura is dead, her body broken on the icy ground....
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 9
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Provides insights into the life of Grimalkin, one of the deadliest witches in the country, if not the world, whose uneasy truce with the Spook's apprentice, Tom, unites them against the ultimate evil of the Fiend.
13) Slither
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 11
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Slither lurks in woods and towns, hunting for human blood, but before he can feast on three lovely sisters, their dying father binds the monster to a bargain.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
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.
16) The Spook's tale
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
As sixty-year-old John Gregory reflects on the past, he reveals how the world of ghosts, ghasts, witches, and boggarts was exposed to him and he later became the Spook, even though his first intention had been to join the priesthood.
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John Connolly and James "Whitey" Bulger grew up together on the tough streets of South Boston. Decades later in the mid-1970s, they met again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of the Irish Mob. Connolly had an idea, a scheme that might bring Bugler into the FBI fold and John Connolly into the Bureau's big leagues. But Bulger had other plans. Told by two former Boston Globe reporters who...
18) Inherit the Dead
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons private investigator Pericles "Perry" Christo one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward case looking for the socialite's daughter.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.