Mildred and her friends try to join Ethel's Cauldron Club, but Mildred fails the initiation test. Fenella and Griselda, however, come to the rescue and the Dangerous Old Books Society - DOBS - is formed.
Ruby uses her appliance of science to unlock the secrets of the past - but disaster very nearly ensues and it is only thanks to Mildred's quick thinking that the Castle is saved.
Cackle's Academy takes part in a radio quiz show against girls from the dreaded Pentangle¹s School. Miss Hardbroom refuses to have anything to do with it, but in the end she saves the Academy from humiliation.
Miss Cackle's young niece, Gabrielle Gribble, comes to the Academy for teaching practice and Mildred Hubble and her friends teach her far more than she ever learned at WitchTraining College.
It's time for the dreaded Third Year Witch Project. Nerves are frayed and unlikely partnerships forged. The final demonstration in the Great Hall nearly ends in disaster, but all the girls work together to make the day memorable.
Miss Hecketty Broomhead returns to Cackle's Academy to take over while Miss Cackle goes to look after her sick aunt. Her insistence on rigid time-keeping proves to be her undoing, and Miss Cackle is welcomed back with open arms.
Cackle's Academy is staging a Pantomime for the Christmas season. Needless to say there is as much drama off-stage as there is on, and only with the help of a certain amount of magic does the whole production end as it should with Cinderella getting her Prince.
Mildred discovers that there is something which she is not worst at - drawing. Ethel, however, who can't bear the thought of anybody being better than her at anything, is determined to thwart Mildred. She very nearly succeeds - but not quite!
There is rumour of a merger between Cackle's Academy and Camelot College, but Mildred and her friends devise a plan which is guaranteed to make Miss Cackle change her mind.