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Twelve-year-old Bianca feels like the luckiest girl in Venice. Shes apprenticed to the most famous painter in the world - Annunzio di Lombardi - and shes learning all the tricks of the trade in the most glamorous and powerful place in the city: the Duchess Palace. But one night disaster strikes. Biancas beloved Lombardi is given a poisoned cup of wine at a party, and c Twelve-year-old Bianca feels like the luckiest girl in Venice. Shes apprenticed to the most famous painter in the world - Annunzio di Lombardi - and shes learning all the tricks of the trade in the most glamorous and powerful place in the city: the Duchess Palace. But one night disaster strikes. Biancas beloved Lombardi is given a poisoned cup of wine at a party, and collapses - but not before giving Bianca a magical paintbrush, which allows her to travel through hidden doorways throughout the city. Bianca will have to use all of her pluck, courage and cunning to find out who tried to hurt her master - and to discover what is wrong with the Duchess, who is behaving very strangely indeed...The Last Apprentice is a delightful and exciting mystery perfect for middle-grade readers looking for feisty heroines, sinister baddies and a good dash of magic and suspense.