I have just completed the fifth book in the Wardstone Chronicles The Spooks Mistake.  The series is about a boy named tom Ward who has just started his apprentership with the local spook.  A spook is a person who binds withes, boggarts and deals with the dark.  To be a spook you have to be a seventh son of a seventh son.  This is the best series I have ever read and I'm enjoying it very much.  I recommend these books to every one!  Like most series you shouls read them in order, The fist book is the Spooks Apprentice.