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Joseph Delaney
Joseph Delaney has also written a science fiction novel under the name J. K. Haderack. Warner Bros has optioned this series for film. Here’s the Warstone Chronicles/Last Apprenticewebsite.
The Last Apprentice (The Wardstone Chronicles)
The Last Apprentice (The Wardstone Chronicles) — (2004-2013) Ages 9-12. In the UK, these are The Wardstone Chronicles (The Spook’s Apprentice, The Spook’s Curse, The Spook’s Secret, The Spook’s Battle, The Spook’s Mistake, The Spook’s Sacrifice). Publisher: A wonderful and terrifying series by a new writer about a young boy training to be an exorcist. Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son and has been apprenticed to the local Spook. The job is hard, the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts, contain witches and bind boggarts. But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the horror begins …
The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney
Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son. Therefore, his mother has always planned to apprentice him to the Spook — the traveling exorcist who services the surrounding villages, ridding them of ghosts, witches, ghasts, boggarts, and other troublesome creatures. The Spook performs a nasty, dangerous, and necessary job for the community, and he’s well respected, but his line of work makes him an outsider — people just aren’t comfortable around him. Thomas doesn’t want to become the next Spook — the Spook’s life is hazardous and lonely — but as the seventh son, he doesn’t have other options and he doesn’t want to disappoint his mother.
As Thomas begins his apprenticeship, he starts to learn a lot about the handling of supernatural creatures and he discovers that many of the former apprentices failed... as in died on the job. Then, when the... Read More
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Joseph Delaney has also written a science fiction novel under the name J. K. Haderack. Warner Bros has optioned this series for film. Here’s the 
The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney
Trail of Fate: High on action, low on logic
The Last Dragonslayer: A fast and mildly entertaining read
Swords and Ice Magic: The sixth Lankhmar collection
