When Maud and Enid go and check on her, they find Mildred with her hair loose and a chunk of her hair tangled up with the brush in a huge mess right up onto her scalp. The girls also learn with their very own ears that Miss Granite speaks in a very high-pitched, squeaky voice that shocks everyone including Ethel Hallow.Īfter settling down, Mildred unravels her pigtails and gives Maud's styling brush a go. Miss Granite is described as being very strange-looking and having a huge cloud of orange curls, which looked extremely frivolous for Miss Cackle's Academy and also wearing enormous purple-tinted glasses and a short cape with a collar turned up so high that you couldn't see much of her face at all. They see in assembly that their new form-teacher will be Miss Granite (who was hired by Miss Cackle after Miss Gribble failed to show discipline and against Miss Hardbroom's advice).

After meeting up with her friends, Maud Moonshine and Enid Nightshade, Mildred sees that Maud's hair is curly (she borrowed a hairstyling brush from her aunt) and they also learn that they will have a new teacher as a form-teacher this year other than Miss Hardbroom. As a reward for her good behaviour, her mum bought her a new broomstick. Mildred Hubble is returning to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches on the first day of her third year. The book was published in 2005 and features Agatha Cackle (from The Worst Witch) disguised as new teacher, Miss Granite. The Worst Witch Saves the Day is the fifth novel in The Worst Witch children's book series by Jill Murphy.

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