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Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ready to be presented to the last apprentice, Tom Ward, the spook's notebook contains instructions for vanquishing boggarts, witches, the unquiet dead, and other dark creatures and spirits.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Lazy Schnitzel is apprenticed to a famous wizard, and when a salesman selling vacuum cleaners offers to help clean house, Schnitzel accepts, but finds trouble when he realizes the salesman is a vampire.
Author
Series
Seelie wars volume 2
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
290 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Prince Aspen and Snail, the midwife's apprentice, realize that they have started the war they meant to prevent, they take on new identities and go on a quest to make things right"--
85) Stolen magic
Author
Series
Tale of Two Castles volume 2
Language
English
Description
Elodie, the dragon detective Meenore, and the kindly ogre Count Jonty Um are all on their way to Elodie's home island of Lahnt. Elodie has barely set foot on land before she learns that the Replica, a statue that keeps her island's deadly volcano from erupting, has been stolen! If the Replica isn't found in three days, a mountain will be destroyed. And when Elodie ends up alone with a cast of characters each of whom may be guilty, she has to use her...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Rupert cannot resist applying to an advertisement to be a witch's apprentice, but quickly finds himself over his head with the young witch-in-training who desperately needs his help.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1735 in New York City, a young printer's apprentice learns about the importance of freedom of speech when the printer Peter Zenger is arrested and tried for writing articles criticizing the government.
88) Curiosity
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1835, when his father's put in a Philadelphia debtor's prison, 12-year-old chess prodigy Rufus Goodspeed is relieved to be recruited to secretly operate a chess-playing automaton named The Turk, but soon questions the fate of his predecessors and his own safety.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1918 Berlin, Germany, sixteen-year-old Moritz struggles to do what is right on his newspaper job, in his relationship with his mother and sister who are outspoken socialists, and with his brother, who returns from the war physically and emotionally scarred.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
At a medieval monastery, orphaned Simon, who is apprenticing in illumination, dreams of the day he can create his own pictures, but finds he must first complete a strange and unusual assignment that Father Anselm has given him.
Author
Series
Shakespeare stealer volume 3
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to help a friend, acquires a new identity, and finds a new purpose in life.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, seventeen-year-old apprentice Demon Trapper Riley Blackthorne must deal with unwanted fame, an unofficial bodyguard, an overprotective friend, the Vatican's own Demon Trappers, and an extremely powerful Grade Five demon who is stalking her.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the late seventeenth century, fifteen-year-old Kit, driven to desperation by the starvation of one brother and mistreatment of his own simple-minded twin, realizes his dream of becoming an apprentice in London but feels drawn by duty to return home to Essex.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With evil Prince Nightshade hot on their trail, Alastair Grim and his apprentice Grubb and the rest of the crew of the unique mechanical/magical apparatus known as the Odditorium embark on a perilous underwater adventure to the otherworldly realm of Avalon, to find the legendary sword Excalibur, the only weapon capable of penetrating the prince's magical suit of armor.
95) Illusionarium
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As apprentice to his father, the second-best medical scientist in the empire, Jonathan leads a quiet life in a remote aerial city until the king arrives, calling on them to find the cure to a plague that has struck the capital city and put the queen's life at risk, but the newly discovered chemical, fantillium, that may help will also put at risk all that Jonathan holds dear.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, who have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family.
97) The last bogler
Author
Series
City of orphans volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ned Roach becomes a bogler's apprentice as Victorian London seeks to banish its bogle infestation once and for all in this conclusion to the trilogy featuring young assistants to Victorian London's best monster catcher, Alfred Bunce.
98) The water mirror
Author
Series
Dark reflections volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a place similar to Venice, Italy, two teenaged orphans, apprenticed to a maker of magic mirrors, begin to realize that their fates are tied to the magical protector of the city known as the Flowing Queen and to the ruler of Hell, respectively.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As apprentice detective to Theodore Goodman, Wilma, a ten-year-old orphan of Cooper Island's Lowside Institute for Woeful Children, helps investigate who is poisoning actors at the Valiant Vaudeville Theater but when Theodore disappears, she must take action on her own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wilma Tenderfoot, a ten-year-old orphan who lives at Cooper Island's Lowside Institute for Woeful Children with her dog Pickle, dreams of escape and of becoming the apprentice of the world-famous detective Theodore P. Goodman, whose every case she follows devotedly in the newspaper. When the priceless Katzin Stone is stolen, Wilma is sure she can solve the mystery.
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