Molly Moon, Micky Minus, & the Mind Machine

she Knows What You're Thinking . . . . No Really, She Knows What You're Thinking.

molly Moon Is Back From The Future--and This Time, She Can Read Minds.

children's Literature

spunky Molly Moon—hypnotist, Time-stopper, And Time Traveler—is On A Mission: To Find The Lost Twin Brother Whose Existence She Has Just Discovered. Accompanied By Her Best Friend, Rocky, And Her Faithful Black Pug, Petula, Molly Journeys Back In Time To The Hospital From Which Her Twin Was Kidnapped—only To Learn That He Has Been Transported Five Hundred Years Into The Future. Following Him There, Molly Finds A World Devastated By Global Warming (mont Blanc's Snow Capped Peak Has Become A Scorching Desert) And About To Be Conquered By A Fiendishly Precocious Six-year-old Tyrant, Sinister Little Princess Fang, Who Utters Her Evil Commands In Lisping Baby Talk. Worse, Molly's Brother, Micky Minus, Is A Whiny, Cowardly Tool Of The Princess; The Princess's Mind Machine Extracts All Of Molly's Knowledge Of Hypnotism; And Molly And Micky Are Imprisoned In A Pit Of Genetically Engineered Worms. Thank Goodness Molly Acquires A New Magical Ability: She Can Read Minds. At 404 Pages, The Saga Of Molly's Adventures Becomes A Bit Convoluted And Unwieldy (why Are So Many Children's Books So long These Days?), But Molly Is A Spirited, Formidable, And Enormously Likeable Heroine Pitted Against One Of The Most Deliciously Creepy Villains Even Seen In Children's Fiction. Reviewer: Claudia Mills, Ph.d.