Molly Moon, Micky Minus and the Mind Machine

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Molly Moon, Micky Minus and the Mind Machine
Author	Georgia Byng
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Molly Moon
Genre(s)	Children's Literature
Publisher	Macmillan Children's Books (UK), HarperCollins (US)
Publication date	October 5, 2007
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	384
Preceded by	Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time-Travel Adventure

Molly Moon, Micky Minus and the Mind Machine is the fourth novel in the Molly Moon series, written by the British author Georgia Byng. It was released October 5, 2007. ^[1]

[edit] Plot

The heroine, Molly Moon, is on a mission to bring her long-lost twin brother, Micky, home. In order to do this, she travels back in time to the day of her birth with her best friend Rocky, and her small black pug, then follows Micky's time-traveling kidnapper far into the future, to Mount Blancia. However, she then discovers that Micky has been brainwashed by Princess Fang, an evil 6-year-old genius, so he can hypnotize people of the village for her, into doing her orders. Once Molly is about to try to save Micky, she gets caught by Princess Fang. The evil princess, using her high-tech mind machine, takes away all of Molly's knowledge of hypnotism, leaving her helpless. However, in spite of losing her powers, Molly gains a new power; mind reading. Using her new skill, Molly is able to gather information from Princess Fang. Now that Molly knows what Princess Fang has done, after much persuasion, She has Micky hypnotize people to help her stop Princess Fang's evil plans for the future. However, Molly's best friend Rocky gets hypnotized, in the beginning, by Micky. Rocky then starts helping Princess Fang, so Molly promised to get him back. Mrs. Meekles (a worker) helps her escape with Micky by taking his powers into the mind machine too. They escape into a zoo, where Molly attempts to persuade Micky that Princess Fang is just using him. She mentions the fact that they've been pretending he was sick and needed their help, and the fact that he's named "Minus". She gets him to her side, only to have him be hypnotized by Rocky. In the end, Molly uses her mind reading powers to ask the mind machine if she can get her hypnotyzing skills back. The mind machine gives back her knowledge. She then hypnotizes all of Princess Fang's guards and asks to get her crystals back. Once she has her crystals, she stops time and get in position to hypnotize people. Finally all of the people are hypnotized and everything it back to normal. Molly also get the true rulers of Mont Blancia back on the throne. In this novel, Molly, Petula the pug, and her best friend Rocky use Molly's new telepathic powers to escape from princess Fang, return Micky's right mind to him and put the true rulers of Mount Blancia back on their throne.