Revenge of the witch /
Joseph Delaney ; illustrations by Patrick Arrasmith.
- 1st Harper Trophy ed.
- New York : HarperTrophy, 2006, 2005.
- 344, 12 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
- The last apprentice ; bk. 1. .
- Delaney, Joseph, 1945- Last apprentice ; bk. 1. .
"A Greenwillow book"--P. [4] of cover. "First published in 2004 in Great Britain by The Bodley Head ... under the title The spook's apprentice"--T.p. verso. Includes excerpt from Curse of the bane.
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties."