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Molly Moon Stops the World

Name: Molly Moon Stops the World
Author: Georgia Byng
ISBN: 9780060514150

by Georgia Byng

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Overview

Spunky heroine Molly Moon is back -- and this time she is hypnotizing her way to the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. When Davina Nuttel, star of Broadway's Stars on Mars, suddenly disappears, Molly finds herself in the middle of a dangerous investigation. Accompanied by Rocky and Petula the Pig, she flies to Los Angeles to trak the sinister activities of American billionaire Primo Cell, who wants to become president and take over the world. Molly is the only one who can stop him....

Believing that she has been sent to Los Angeles by her librarian friend, Lucy Logan, to stop an evil plot by the wealthy Primo Cell, Molly Moon and her friend Roger, orphans with unusual hypnotic powers, find themselves in danger from an unsuspected source.

Synopsis

Molly Moon is back — and this time she's hypnotizing her way to the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Along with Rocky and Petula the pug, Molly is tracking the sinister activities of American billionaire Primo Cell, who wants to become president and take over the world. He has all the Hollywood celebrities in his power, but Molly Moon has an amazing power of her own, which even she doesn't know about ...

Publishers Weekly

"The author offers more hypnotic high jinks in this sequel to Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism," according to PW. "This time, Molly travels to Los Angeles to stop a powerful hypnotist businessman who is trying to take over Hollywood-and then the world." Ages 8-12. (Apr.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

About the Author, Georgia Byng

Georgia Byng grew up outside Winchester, in England, near the river Itchen, with three naughty brothers and a sister. Her dad was nature loving and her mum was very encouraging and warm. The nearby country lane with its many cottages was somewhere Georgia first found out about characters, for it was teeming with them, and she used to interview them. Otherwise she would try to sell these neighbours things she had made.

As a child she loved acting and so at 18 went to The Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After college she began to paint and write.
She had always written poems and songs but now she started writing stories.
Her first were in comic strip, a medium that she worked with for five years. The Sock Monsters was her first published book in 1995 - a comic strip story for 5 - 7 year olds.

Georgia lives in a house in London full of old and new art, as her husband is the conceptual artist Marc Quinn. Marc keeps all sorts of strange things in the fridge - once he had to keep a Canadian frog in there as it was hibernating and had to be kept cold. They and their family, Tiger (17), Lucas (6) and Sky (2) love to travel, their favorite destination being India.

Georgia Byng is the author of MOLLY MOON'S INCREDIBLE BOOK OF HYPNOTISM MOLLY MOON STOPS THE WORLD MOLLY MOON'S HYPNOTIC TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE MOLLY MOON MICKY MINUS AND THE MIND MACHINE

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The Barnes & Noble Review
Georgia Byng's mind-bending heroine makes a California-bound comeback, this time heading to L.A. to stop a power-hungry businessman from hypnotizing his way into the presidency of the United States.

When Molly learns that Lucy Logan has a dangerous job for her -- stop multibillionaire (and ultra-strong hypnotist) Primo Cell in his tracks -- the orphan thinks this task might be more than she can handle. Thankfully, she has Rocky and other characters along for the trip, and Molly soon finds herself hobnobbing with Hollywood stars. But Molly learns that Primo has the power of permanent hypnotism that can only be broken by a secret password -- how can she reverse his effects? Molly discovers a startling surprise -- she has time-stopping powers of her own -- and after Primo's son saves them from near death, she finds out that her problems have only just begun.

Glittering with even more action and adventure than Byng's first book, Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism, this sequel will have readers starry-eyed for more. Plot-twisting turns of events keep coming throughout, and with all of Molly's personal revelations, fans will feel like their world has stopped, too, until the last page. Shana Taylor

Publishers Weekly

Children's Literature

Spunky heroine Molly Moon is back in this exciting sequel to Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism. Now Molly and her best friend, Rocky, must outwit the evil hypnotist Primo Cell who is trying to take over the world. Orphan Molly has gained control of her earlier miserable life at the orphanage by means of her special hypnotic powers, and she has rescued her fellow orphans as well. Now arch villain Cell must be stopped. Peopled with wonderfully quirky stock characters like Forest, an aging hippie Yogic mediator; kindly, daft old Mrs. Twinkleberry who is obsessed with movie stars; Roger who communes with trees; and Petula the pug who takes herself to the dog beauty salon, the book reels from one madcap calamity to another. Byng's creative use of hypnotism as a device to move the plot along allows for wildly improbable scenarios and a great deal of humor. Although the book is long, the generous use of white space in the format makes for easy reading. A wickedly clever magpie-like guillotine almost finishes off our heroes, but, of course, good triumphs as Molly uses a Medusa-like trick to defeat her supposed enemy and bring events to a satisfyingly chaotic conclusion. Despite some awkward writing and an occasional bizarre metaphor, Molly Moon will delight fans of the Lemony Snicket series as well as devotees of Dido Twite in The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken. An entertaining romp. 2003, HarperCollins, and Ages 8 to 12.
—Quinby Frank

School Library Journal

Gr 4-6-A lighthearted sequel to Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism (HarperCollins, 2003). In this adventure, Molly discovers from her mentor Lucy Logan that a man named Primo Cell is trying to take over the world and that she is the only one who can stop him. The girl goes to California, gets into the Academy Awards, swanky Hollywood parties, and more, all in an effort to discover how to stop Cell. She finds out that he has mastered the art of casting permanent hypnotic spells and must find out how to break them before he becomes president of the U.S. Readers are likely to enjoy this fun fantasy; as long as they don't delve too deeply, they won't notice the contrivances and the many holes in the story. This title will appeal to fans of the first story and may garner a few new ones-if they are willing to turn off their reality buttons.-Saleena L. Davidson, South Brunswick Public Library, Monmouth Junction, NJ Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Molly Moon's back, ready to save the world in this much-improved sequel to Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism (2003). Molly and the children of Happiness House orphanage have been living splendidly since Molly returned wealthy from her American adventure and hypnotized all the unpleasant adults into kindness. Now Molly's old friend, hypnotist librarian Lucy Logan, has a dangerous quest for her. Swathed head-to-toe in bandages from a mysterious accident, Lucy describes a terrible tale of hypnotized media personalities compelled into celebrity endorsements. With the wealth from his endorsed products, Lucy explains, wicked Primo Cell might soon rule the world. Molly must head back to America to stop Cell's dastardly plot. In Hollywood, Molly discovers that both she and Cell have power to stop time, and she must use her newfound power to prevent him from becoming president. Chock-full of classic B-movie adventure-from shocking revelations of parentage to a deus ex machina escape from an overly elaborate evil-genius deathtrap: an enjoyable over-the-top page-turner. (Fiction. 8-13)