MOLLY MOON, MICKY MINUS, & THE MIND MACHINE
by Georgia Byng
HarperTrophy
Hardcover: 9780060750367
Paperback: 9780060750381
Ages 8-12
416 pages

Eleven-year-old Molly Moon, hypnotist and time-traveler, has recently found her parents and learned she has a twin brother, kidnapped shortly after birth. Along with her friend Rocky and canine pal Petula, Molly plans to go back in time to rescue her brother. There is no time to tell her parents, and they would just try to talk her out of it. So, armed with a compass, a ketchup sandwich, her time-travel crystals and not much else, the three set off to find the brother Molly never knew about, much less knew.

Molly, Rocky and Petula travel back in time to the hospital where the twins were born. Present-day Molly has no trouble finding herself and her twin brother or spotting the moment he is taken from the nursery. But the kidnapper is a skilled time-traveler, and to save her brother, Molly and her friends have to travel hundreds of years into the future. There they find Micky Minus, as the twin was named by his captor, hostage of the evil Princess Fang who forces him to study science and philosophy only to suck out his knowledge with a giant mind machine.

The action is swift and non-stop as Molly tries to free her brother from Princess Fang's clutches. She meets up with a sympathetic nurse and a mutated and ousted royal family who lend their help. But are they a match for the demented child princess who has hypnotized an entire country and brutalized countless others? Along the way Molly discovers she has the power to read minds, which, along with the help of the quirky supporting cast, just may save them all.

Molly is brave but humble, a heroine of character and kindness. Her adversary, Princess Fang, is cruel and bizarre and a great villain to root against. MOLLY MOON, MICKY MINUS AND THE MIND MACHINE is a fabulously irresistible page-turner --- a fun and action-packed story about family, friendship and the powers residing in even the most unlikely child.

    --- Reviewed by Sarah Rachel Egelman

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