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Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure

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"Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure" is the third book in a series of adventures about a girl named Molly Moon and Georgia Byng delivers once again.

Hynpotic Time Travel Adventure picks up right where Stops the World left off. Molly has found her parents, but finds herself not entirely happy, for Lucy Logan seems to have sunk into a deep depression and Molly feels that her own inadequacy may be partly to blame. She's pondering starting up a hypnotic hospital with her good friend, Rocky, and wonders if maybe Logan should be her first patient. She doesn't have much time to dwell on this, however, as strange things are afoot.

Before she knows it, Molly finds first her dog, Petula, kidnaped and then herself. She's whisked back to India in 1870, where a strange man called Maharaja Waqt is upset that Molly has foiled his plans. It seems he's the one that was ultimately responsible for the events of the past book and now, using time travel power, he hopes to erase what Molly's done and further his own selfish schemes. He's largely unaware, however, just how powerful Molly is.

This book contains deep thoughts about friendship, self-worth, perseverance and even religion. I found myself really connecting with what Georgia Byng was saying, both about social systems and religion.

The Molly Moon books also have pretty well developed characters. While I feel the characters aren't quite as deep and well-developed as those of the Potter series (a very hard act to live up to), you can still connect with them and many of them are just plain cool (including the hippie Forest, who has a much larger role in this book than the previous.)

Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure lives up to the standard of the past books and is actually even better. Word has it now that work on a feature film has begun, with David Heyman, producer of the "Harry Potter" films on board to produce the movie. I can't wait for the next book as well, as the ending of this sets up a great cliffhanger for the next.

As you saw on the title,I like Molly Moon. If you like adventure,suspense and mystery, you should run to your nearest library and find the whole series. But you have to read the books in order or nothing will make sense. I can't imangine how anyone would not LOVE this series.

After the exitment and scheme of the first book the third and second books were kind of a let-down.A lot of books do that and I find this book is no exeption. Same old story. Every time you think you have found the power crazed manic , you find out he has a master , a more power crazed manic than him/her.

In this third book of the Molly Moon series, 11-year-old master hypnotist Molly is recently reunited with her mother, Lucy, after 11 years in an orphanage. Molly herself rescued Lucy from a long hypnotic spell. However, Lucy is not happy; she is full of regret for the years she has missed.

Petula, Molly's pug dog, is also a hypnotist. Like Molly, Petula has the ability to stop time. When a suspicious turbaned stranger appears working as a gardener, Petula knows she must protect Molly. But when Molly goes outside, there's a loud BOOM and both the gardener and Petula vanish.

Molly confides in her father, her friend Rocky, and her older hippie pal Forest. They can't keep Molly from being hypnotized by the pug-napper, who takes her back in time to nineteenth-century India where she actually sees herself three years younger.

Molly and Petula meet the kidnapper's master, Waqt, a time-traveling giant who is angry because he wanted Molly Moon at a younger age --- before she became a hypnotist --- so he could foil her previous adventure in which she inadvertently ruined his plans to make his patsy president of the United States. Waqt's goal is to mine more of the time travel crystals enabling him to travel to the beginning of time, bathe in the light, and become young again. Waqt blackmails Molly (by threatening to turn Petula into pug curry) into time traveling to do his bidding.

I delighted in the quirky characters, including the hippie dude Forest and the English-muddling Waqt, and loved the completely original plot in which Molly hopes to rescue several younger Molly Moons. The reader also gleans some fascinating facts on India's sights, history and culture.

Although I was slightly befuddled by the time shifts and differing points of view of the different-aged Mollys and Petulas, the action and wry humor kept me reading on to see if and how Molly saved the day. MOLLY MOON'S HYPNOTIC TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE is technically a stand-alone novel, but I recommend reading the previous books in the series first for the background story --- and for pure pleasure!

--- Reviewed by Terry Miller Shannon (...)

I just loved this sequel!! I think It will be great for Potter Fans waiting for Book 7, but I loved this book to bits. I have read all the books so far and can't wait for the 4th to come out!!!!

I Got the first book last year for my birthday my friend said it was great it was (of course lots of the books my friend gives me are great) after I finished the first one I was still hungery for more so, I bought the second one and was still hungery so, I bought the third and when we finished we said that was the greatest book ever now we want to see if a fourth goes out then I will be ready to tell you if they were the greatest seires ever. I hope you buy these books and read them because I think you will Love.

Molly Moon heads on her third hypnotic adventure, this time where time travel plays a crucial role in solving the mystery in this newest book. And yes, Molly does add to her hypnotic powers by learning how to time travel. Molly finds herself in India during 1870, where she meets a most rude and inconsiderate giant (he's actually a very large person, but it would be making him seem like a nice person, which he is the total opposite of) named Waqt, who also brings back three other Molly Moons; the baby, 3 year old, and 10 year old version of this currently eleven-year-old Molly. Waqt has an evil scheme up his enormous sleeves, which I won't tell you but let you figure out for yourself in this compelling third edition of Molly Moon's hypnotic adventure. Molly matures a tremendous amount in this book, which shows that the meek ten year old we met in the first book is growing up to possibly be the world's greatest hypnotist.

Wow. Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure is one of the first books to prove that yes, sequels can be just as good as the original story. All the way through, the plot is suspensful. You will love the heroes (SPOILER): Forest, the young Mollys, Rocky, Amrit, Ojas, and of course, Molly, along with a host of other characters, both good and bad. Waqt is the terrible, yet loveable villian of Molly's third adventure. Each and every one of the characters has a fully developed personality that everybody can relate to...from Amrit's keeper to Molly herself. Filled with fun, laughs, and edge-of-your-seat suspense, this book is sure to be one you'll remember.

amanda j., age 11

Molly Moon is back and this is the best yet! It's my absolute FAVORITE book! On a scale of 1-10 I give it a 50! I love that there is a cliff hanger at the end. Byng introduces new characters that are very unique, like an elephant. I've realized that in every book she gets a new power, this time it's time traveling. (SPOILER): Molly finds four younger versions of herself.

I just love the Molly Moon series. Bought all for my 9 yr. old and have enjoyed reading them too.

Hope there will be a fourth installment.