Gradually, Elizabeth comes to resent Jennifer's domination, and when Jennifer is about to drop Hilary Ezra, their pet toad, into the pot of potion, she rebels. Never wear shoes in the house on Sundays") a flying potion compounded of such exotica as snowballs from the deep freeze and fingernail parings. In the tart Juvenile vernacular of a New York suburb, Elizabeth recounts the rigors and rewards of her apprenticeship: raw eggs and raw onion sandwiches (recipe given) thirteen taboos ("Never cut my hair. Jennifer, master witch, familiar of Hecate and Macbeth, mentor of Elizabeth also her fellow fifth grader at William McKinley School, later her friend. Who!?!! Me, first: Elizabeth, apprentice witch, promoted to journeyman, dismissed for sentimentality lonely in a new school, discovering the satisfaction of being different, becoming a friend.
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