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Thomas Ward, whose seventh-son heritage attracts both promise and peril, begins an apprenticeship with the local Spook, mastering the techniques of exorcism, witch containment, and boggart binding. Amid the danger of unfinished work, Thomas’s training is tested when he is deceived into releasing Mother Malkin, the county’s most notorious witch, setting off a terrifying chain of events.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Joe Delaney
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