by Georgia Byng
The next thing she knew, the elderly Indian had taken her by the arm, there was a distant BOOM and the world around her became a complete blur. Colors rushed past her, then all around her. Even the colors under her feet changed from ocres to browns to yellows to greens to sparkling blues. It was like traveling through a kaleidoscope of color. And as they moved through it, a cool wind brushed Molly’s skin and the noise of the lawn mower was replaced by a different sort of humming, a constant noise, but of different volumes and qualities. One moment it sounded like a thunderstorm, the next second a pattering rain and birdsong. And then, all of a sudden the blurred world became solid again. The ground beneath Molly’s feet was a firm green and the sky above, hyacinth blue. The world had stopped spinning.
Molly’s mind took a few moments to settle. Although she was still in a hypnotic daze, she could understand that the world about her had changed. They weren’t in different surroundings. Briersville Park was still there, in all its majesty. But instead of it being winter as it had been moments before, it seemed to be summer. There were huge flowerbeds to the left and right of her, blooming with roses. There were no topiary bush animals as there usually were. What was more, instead of a car parked in the driveway, there was a carriage with a dappled horse harnessed to it and an oldfashioned groom dressed in knickerbockers standing beside it. A gardener in woollen shirt and trousers and a brown leather apron was on his hands and knees with a trowel in his hand. A large pile of weeds lay on the ground beside him.
They were in a different time.
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Molly Moon Stops the World
Copyright © 2003 by Georgia Byng
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Byng, Georgia.
Molly Moon stops the world / Georgia Byng.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
Sequel to: Molly Moon’s incredible book of hypnotism.
Summary: 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 Rocky, orphans with unusual hypnotic powers, find themselves in danger from an unsuspected source.
ISBN 0-06-051410-8 — ISBN 0-06-051413-2 (lib. bdg.) ISBN 0-06-051415-9 (pbk.)
[1. Hypnotism—Fiction. 2. Orphans—Fiction. 3. Los Angeles (Calif.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.B9887Mo 2003 2003012485
[Fic]—dc22 CIP
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Typography by Amy Ryan
First Harper Trophy edition, 2005
First American edition, 2004
First published in Britain by Macmillan Children’s Books, 2003
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