Last Apprentice: Can you find this job in the classified ads?
In Joseph Delaney’s story, the main character Thomas Ward is apprenticed at the tender age of twelve. The St. Petersburg Times has both a classified section for job listings and also many feature stories that discuss people’s careers. Looking at news articles that deal with careers, what jobs do you feel would benefit from apprenticeship instead of formal training like college? Select an apprenticeship-style job and a job that requires a college education. Write a short essay that compares and contrasts these two jobs and training paths. Be sure to tell us which path you would choose and why. Send your essay to jillwilson@sptimes.com and you might see it featured in the future on our Times NIE Web site.
I read this book in about a week and a half. I learned a lot about smallpox. I was blown away when the book discussed how many people died in a year from smallpox. Plus what people went through and looked like from having smallpox. Also my timing in reading this book was amazing. Right after I finished reading this book a student from USF passed away from contracting Meningitis. What was really wild was that some of the symptoms are the same.
Posted by: Mrs. Espinoza | September 26, 2007 at 10:27 PM
Like Harry Potter? You are sure to like this novel. Tom becomes the apprentice of a spook and finds himself battling witches, boggarts, ghosts, and more. Read it and you'll be hungry for more. Be sure to also read Curse of the Bane and Night of the Soul Stealer. This spring the fourth in the series is set for release, entitled: Attack of the Fiend. There is a really great website about these books and the author at http://www.spooksbooks.com/.
Posted by: Natalie Christensen | September 28, 2007 at 11:23 AM
Awesome book
Posted by: Joe | November 05, 2007 at 08:24 PM
I really enjoyed reading this book. I don't think that being a spook is a job you can find in the classified ads but that is one of the reasons why I found this book so interesting. Ghosts and ghouls are very cool and Joseph Delaney painted a picture of each one of them. This book made me think about the time period that the spook lived in and what it would be like to live in old Britan. I agree with Natalie about how you will be hungry for more. After I read this book, I read all of the rest because I liked it so much. The story has a good plot and Tom's experience makes you wish you were a spook too. I hope the new book comes out soon and I would like to know when it does.
Posted by: Posted by: A.B., Ms. Schleider's 10th grade ADV Reading class, ATC high school | November 21, 2007 a | November 21, 2007 at 08:04 AM
i liked this book alot. at first i was a bit boring but then it got good. it makes me interested enough to read the sequel
Posted by: mh | January 24, 2008 at 03:41 PM