Pub Date: April 17, 2012
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2010034179
Lexile Code: 0810
Features: Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 13 to UP
Physical Info: 1.02" H x 8.02" L x 5.30" W ( 0.68 lbs) 420 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Fiction | Action and Adventure | Horror | Fantasy | Wizards and Witches | Media TieIn | Monsters | Ghost Stories | Historical | General | Coming of Age | Science Fiction | Thrillers and Suspense | Paranormal Occult and Supernatural
Series: Last Apprentice
Description: The witch assassin Grimalkin is making her way to Tom's side, and Alice may call on her own considerable dark powers. But will it be enough to stand against the terrifying gods . . . and the unimaginable darkness of the Fiend, who stalks Tom's every move?
Brief description:
Joseph DELANEY is the author of the internationally best-selling The Last Apprentice series, which is now a major motion picture, Seventh Son. He is a former English teacher who lives in the heart of boggart territory in Lancashire, England. His village has a boggart called the Hall Knocker, which was laid to rest under the step of a house near the church.
Review Quotes:
"Anything but tame." - Horn Book (starred review)
Praise for The Last Apprentice series: "The Last Apprentice series continues to be one of the best written of the last several years." - ALA Booklist
"Delaney's mastery of suspense will grip even reluctant readers with his dramatic, beautifully paced prose." - The Times (London)
"This is the stuff of skin-prickling campfire stories." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)