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All I will say is - prepare to be astounded! Mildred Hubble has always been the worst witch at Miss Cackle''s Academy, but she just knows this term will be different. She''s done the best holiday project ever and she''s sure that her form teacher, the fearsome Miss Hardbroom, will be impressed. Even her arch-enemy, Ethel Hallow, is being friendly to her! But is it all too good to be true - will disaster strike again for the Worst Witch?Mildred may be the worst witch at the academy but she''s the best friend you could ever have. Millions of readers love her. And so will you . . .

Hold on to your broom for magical mayhem!It''s the start of a new term at Miss Cackle''s Academy for Witches and Mildred Hubble is determined not to be the worst witch this year. Everything starts so well. Mildred''s class has a new form teacher - no more Miss Hardbroom for Mildred and her friends! But then the new teacher, Miss Granite, starts acting fishy; Mildred has a very bad hair day when a hair growth spell goes wrong and she has to put up with know-it-all Ethel Hallow being ''helpful''. To top it all, her beloved cat Tabby is having a nervous breakdown and refuses to fly.

A new term spells disaster for Mildred!After a disastrous first year, Mildred is determined to lose her embarrassing reputation as the worst witch the Academy has ever seen - but things rapidly get out of hand when her arch-enemy Ethel turns her into a frog ...

A new adventure starring the worst witch - lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble.Mildred makes a wish on a shooting star - and to her great surprise it comes true!Mildred''s wish-come-true is a small dog but how can she keep him a secret from all the others, especially the formidable Miss Hardbroom?It''s a disaster waiting to happen...and it does! - but everything turns out for the best when Mildred and her clever dog, Star, win an indoor swimming pool for the school!

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of First Prize for the Worst Witch by Jill Murphy, read by Gemma Arterton. Accident-prone Mildred Hubble is the Worst Witch at Miss Cackle''s Academy. She''s always getting her spells wrong and landing herself in trouble. But Mildred is in the last term of Fourth Year and determined to prove that she''s not as useless as everyone thinks - could it be First Prize for the worst witch after all?The Worst Witch is back - and it''s as subtly feminist as ever - New Statesman