Dolores and Lavinia, two old and experienced witches, meet their match in young Emma, whose secret weapon is not rat tails or skunk cabbage, but friendship

With the help of her friends, and after a few false starts, a young witch named Emma learns to fly on her broom.

Mean witches Dolores and Lavinia try to spoil Thanksgiving for everyone else but nice witch Emma and her friends outwit them.

Emma struggles in her New Year's resolution to be nicer to the other witches Dolores and Lavinia, as they persist in being dreadful to her, until their relationship climaxes in a dreadful revenge on New Year's Day

Mean witches Dolores and Lavinia torment Emma and her friends and retreat to the cool comfort of the beach, but their victims strike back with a creative form of revenge