A Coven of Witches (The Last Apprentice) - Hardcover

Delaney, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061960381 ISBN 13: 9780061960383

Publisher: Greenwillow, 2010

Synopsis

Beware a girl in pointy shoes!

A girl wearing pointy shoes might be a witch. And the first thing a spook's apprentice learns is never, ever to trust a witch.

In this bone-chilling collection of tales, you will learn exactly why that is, as you encounter:

• a fair and beautiful woman with green scales running down her spine . . .
• a dead witch who lurks under rotting leaves and hunts for blood . . .
• Alice, Tom Ward's best friend, who once lived with one of the darkest witches of all . . .
• and a witch whose cry of revenge can kill.

The dark is all around. Who will survive?

About this title

Review:

"Anything but tame." -- Horn Book (starred review)

Praise for The Last Apprentice series: "This is the stuff of skin-prickling campfire stories." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A gleefully chilling, eerily familiar tale that will leave readers whistling nervously in the graveyard while eagerly awaiting the next installment." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwillow
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061960381
• ISBN 13: 9780061960383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Illustrator: Foley Tim, Arrasmith Patrick