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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scholastica, or Tick, has grown up helping her father make candles in his shop. The experience has its ups and downs--while constantly smelling like tallow makes it hard for Tick to keep friends, stray cats love her. Still, she delights in the work and the fact that she can help Papa. Because she's a girl, Tick can never be a true apprentice in the trade, but since she gets to do the job anyway, what does it matter what she's called?...Then one morning...
62) Rival magic
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Antonia may not be the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, but she's worked hard to win her place as apprentice to renowned sorcerer Master Betrys. Unfortunately, even her best dancing turnip charm might not be enough when Moppe the scullery maid turns out to be a magical prodigy. Now that Betrys has taken Moppe on as a second apprentice, Antonia's path to wizarding just got a bit more complicated. But when Betrys is accused of treason,...
Author
Series
Eon volume 1
Publisher
Firebird
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
531 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Eon hopes to become an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune and learn to be its main interpreter, but to do so will require much, including keeping secret that she is a girl.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 3
Language
English
Description
Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.
Author
Series
Magic thief volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Young Wizard's apprentice Connwaer disguises himself as a chimney swift in order to identify who has been stealing the locus stones in Wellmet"--
66) The golem's eye
Author
Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.
Author
Series
Forbidden library volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Alice and five other apprentice Readers face the fight of their lives when they are sent into the magical library of a late rival Reader--a library that's still protected by a vicious guardian"--
Author
Series
Nightshade volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lady Ember Morrow fulfills a family obligation by joining her friend Alistair in the Conatus Guard and begins training to help with the order's true mission, to seek out and stop evildoers and their unnatural creations.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Reveka, an herbalist's apprentice in the Middle Ages, attempts to break the mysterious curse on the princesses of Sylvania and instead discovers a door to the Underworld. Based on The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ash escapes from her prison, the fate of the world falls to wizard apprentices Sam and Tamrin, their dragon Starback, and an unlikely ally, a roffle named Tadpole, who must find the courage to fight the diabolical wizard or all the magic in the world could disappear forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
376 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Raffi, Master Galen, and a mysterious traveler, Carys, enter the ruined city of Tasceron seeking a relic that may save the world, while evading the Watch, a brutal organization opposed to the Order to which Raffi and Galen belong.
Author
Series
Tales from the sinister city volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Ludlow Fitch runs away from his thieving parents in the City, he meets up with the mysterious Joe Zabbidou, who calls himself a secret pawnbroker, and who takes Ludlow as an apprentice to record the confessions of the townspeople of Pagus Parvus, where resentments are many and trust is scarce.
73) Crows and Cards
Author
Language
English
Description
Three warnings for readers who hate surprises: 1. Beware of slivers, 2. and gamblers, 3. and aces.
Zebulon Crabtree found all that out the hard way back in 1849 when his mother and father shipped him off to St. Louis to apprentice with a tanner. Too bad he had serious allergies to fur and advice from his parents. Hearing the beat of a different drummer, Zeb takes up with a riverboat gambler who has some special plans for him, crosses paths with...
Zebulon Crabtree found all that out the hard way back in 1849 when his mother and father shipped him off to St. Louis to apprentice with a tanner. Too bad he had serious allergies to fur and advice from his parents. Hearing the beat of a different drummer, Zeb takes up with a riverboat gambler who has some special plans for him, crosses paths with...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Fished from the river as an infant and raised by a roving band of street urchins who call themselves the Crowns, eight-year-old Duck keeps her head down and her mouth shut. It's a rollicking life, always thieving, always on the run -- until the ragtag Crowns infiltrate an abandoned cathedral in the city of Odierne and decide to set down roots. It's all part of the bold new plan hatched by the Crowns' fearless leader, Gnat: one of their very own will...
Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Called upon to investigate thirteen suspicious incidents in Stain'd-by-the-Sea, young Lemony Snicket collects clues, questions witnesses, and cracks every case"--
77) Dreamfire
Author
Series
Dream walker trilogy volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Joshlyn Weaver's doubting her ability to serve as a member of a secret society whose members enter the Dream universe and battle nightmares, when strangers with impossible powers begin appearing in the Dream, endangering her apprentice, Will, and the whole World.
78) Palazzo Inverso
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
A young apprentice to a master builder does some mischief that causes a palace to be built upside-down, which creates all sorts of trouble--and fun. Inspired by the work of M.C. Escher and intended to be read front-to-back, then turned over and read back-to-front.
79) The silver mask
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 4
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of Call and his friends in the Magisterium.
80) Mirrorscape
Author
Series
Mirrorscape volume 1
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world where all pleasures are severely restricted, Melkin Womper is apprenticed to a master painter where he discovers the Mirrorscape, a world inside paintings, and becomes entangled in a war between the restrictive Fifth Mystery and the rebels fighting to stop them.
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