TY - GEN AU - Murphy,Jill TI - The worst witch SN - 0141303700 PY - 1998/// CY - London PB - Puffin KW - Witches KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Schools KW - Hubble, Mildred (Fictitious character) KW - Humorous stories, English KW - Children's stories, English N1 - Originally published: London: Allison & Busby, 1974; Interest age: from 7 to 9 N2 - The story of Mildred Hubble's misadventures at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches. Mildred Hubble is a trainee witch at Miss Cackle's Academy, and she's making an awful mess of it. She's always getting her spells wrong and she can't even ride a broomstick without crashing it. But she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy ER -