A Coven of Witches (The Last Apprentice)

Delaney, Joseph

ISBN 10: 006196039X ISBN 13: 9780061960390

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenwillow
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006196039X
• ISBN 13: 9780061960390
• Binding: Library Binding
• Illustrator: Arrasmith Patrick
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224