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Molly Moon Stops The World: Summary and book reviews of Molly Moon Stops The World by Georgia Byng, plus links to an excerpt from Molly Moon Stops The World and a biography of Georgia Byng.
Molly Moon Stops The World
by
Georgia Byng
Hardcover: Apr 2004,
384 pages.
Paperback: Apr 2005,
400 pages.
You are about to embark on an incredible journey to Hollywood with the dazzling young hypnotist Molly Moon.
But be warned: this trip is very dangerous, evil lurks on every page.
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. . .
Book Reviews
Publishers Weekly
Familiar characters face new adventures this spring. Georgia Byng offers more hypnotic high jinks... Along with twists and surprises, Byng also works in themes about the pervasiveness of advertising and the influence of celebrity endorsements.
Kirkus Reviews
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)
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