Georgia Byng’s Molly Moon and the Morphing Mystery is the fifth book about Molly Moon, for 9 year olds who like their villains beautifully dressed.<\/p>\n
Molly is about eleven. She is also a hypnotist, a time stopper and a time traveller, and her parents have taken her crystals off her and hired a tutor instead. Live like an ordinary girl, they said. Molly is bored out of her mind.<\/p>\n
Then Miss Hunroe arrives.<\/p>\n
She is not what Molly expected a teacher to be. Cream suit, red nails, rose perfume, and a gold coin she flips along her knuckles while overtaking on the motorway at well over a hundred miles an hour. She plays the piano beautifully. Forest, the ageing hippie who lives with them, is smitten. Even Molly starts to hope lessons might be bearable.<\/p>\n
The first lesson is a trip to the natural history museum. Miss Hunroe parks in a diplomats-only space, walks Molly and her twin brother Micky past the stuffed apes and the painted deadly nightshade, and then presses a drawer in the archive so that a whole filing cabinet swings round like a door.<\/p>\n
Behind it, at the top of one of the museum towers, four very peculiar women are waiting. Then Miss Hunroe locks the door and puts the key in her pocket.<\/p>\n
Molly has a secret of her own, by the way. On her last trip she picked up mind reading and has told nobody. So when she takes a quiet look inside her new tutor’s head, she sees something she was not meant to see.<\/p>\n
Reading it is fast and daft and quite hard to put down. The twins spend the whole opening being rude to grown-ups who richly deserve it, which is very satisfying. And the title is not a tease. Turning herself into other creatures is where Molly is headed.<\/p>\n
Running alongside all this is Malcolm Tixley, an alien hunter who is completely certain Molly Moon is not human. Her name gave it away, obviously.<\/p>\n
Do know that Tixley’s certainty gets physical straight away. In the first chapter he lies along a garden wall with a rifle, waits until Molly’s neck is in his sights, and fires a tracking dart into it while she is playing by the pool. It is played for laughs and she thinks a stone hit her. It is still a man shooting at a child, on page one.<\/p>\n
The bigger thing is that this is book five. The twin arrived from the future, an uncle got hypnotised into believing he is a lamb, and none of it is explained twice. Your reader will follow it. They will enjoy it far more having met her properly first.<\/p>\n
So start at the beginning. Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism has her in a freezing orphanage, holding the toothbrush she has just been told to clean the toilets with, and a library book that changes everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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