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Elizabeth is short, unglamourous and lonely. She meets an unlikely friend named Jennifer, a mysterious girl who is eerily familiar with Shakespeare and claims to be a witch. They become friends and Jennifer takes on Elizabeth as her apprentice witch. For Elizabeth, this means eating one unpleasant thing after another and gathering the ingredients for an ointment of flying. Things seem to go terribly wrong until Elizabeth, displaying as much genius as Jennifer, realizes that Jennifer has claimed her as a lifelong friend.

本书荣获1968年纽伯瑞儿童文学奖银奖，深受读者喜爱。伊丽莎白是在上学路上第一次遇见詹妮佛的。看起来詹妮佛只是一个有点奇怪的女孩，和普通人没什么两样。可是出乎伊丽莎白意料的是，詹妮佛竟然是个巫婆！伊丽莎白很“荣幸”地被詹妮佛选为徒弟。经过一系列奇怪而又痛苦的训练，伊丽莎白终于有资格利用咒语来制造“飞行油膏”了。就在“万事俱备，只欠东风”的时候，伊丽莎白的软弱让她失去了制造“飞行油膏”的机会，当然也失去了做巫婆的资格。更令她难过的是，她失去了唯一的朋友-詹妮佛。就在伊丽莎白为此大为伤心的时候，詹妮佛又出现了……伊丽莎白能再次当上巫婆吗？她和詹妮佛的友情还能保持下去吗？