Then he stood up to straighten his tired back. Carefully, Lucas Whitaker hammered small metal tacks into the top of the coffin lid to form his mother's initials: H.W., for Hannah Whitaker. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. The startling results teach Lucas a great deal about fear, desperation, and the scientific reasoning that offers hope for a true cure. Lucas can't accept Doc's disbelief, and he joins others in the dark ritual they believe is their only hope. Doc amputates a leg as easily as he pulls a tooth, yet when it comes to consumption, he remains powerless, unwilling to try the cure he calls nonsense. Unable to manage the family farm by himself, Lucas finds work as an apprentice to Doc Beecher, doctor, dentist, barber and undertaker. He might have saved his mother, who was the last to die, if only he had listened to news of a strange cure for this deadly disease. Lucas is grief-stricken and filled with guilt. It's 1849, and twelve-year-old, Lucas Whitaker is all alone after his whole family dies of a disease called consumption which has swept through the community.
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