Revenge of the witch due to the term spook possibly being viewed as a racist term towards the african american population. In the first book, the ruins of gorlan, orphan will, and four other characters jenny, alyss, horace, and george. Spooks apprentice is was a ya debut novel by joseph delaney, so ill be find crosses heart. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc. In this book the spook is taking on his last apprentice, a seventh son of a seventh son and it is his adventures that we follow in the book. David hair the moontide quartet series book 1 mages blood audiobook part 1 duration. The plot centres on a yearold farm boy named tom who lives in the countryside of the county, loosely based on the english county of lancashire, where the author resides with his large family. Will sets out after them, but one boy against six fierce temujai warriors is impossible odds even for a rangers apprentice.
Can sworn enemies fight side by side to save their lives and their kingdoms. His job might involve ridding an area of a malevolent witch or boggart or simply calming restless spirits. The series consists of four arcs, titled the wardstone chronicles, the starblade chronicles, aberrations and brother wulf. They have been published in 24 countries, with 3 novels being shortlisted for the lancashire childrens book for the year award. The story follows a spook a person who works to remove evil from an area. Spooks is one of those atypical british fantasy novels, where it takes a lot of influences through the english countryside and english mannerisms j r r tolken, c s lewis etc.