A how-to manual rescues Molly Moon from her orphanage and its vile
inhabitants in an odd mixture of grotesque silliness and moral
inspiration. For ten years, Molly has been the lowest of the low.
Wicked Miss Adderstone orders her to scrub all the toilets with her
toothbrush as punishment for having a bath with more than ten
centimeters of water. Mean Hazel Hackersly and Gordon Boils (who
eats snot sandwiches) torture her incessantly. Her only friend,
Rocky, moved to America. But a book of hypnotism endows Molly with
hope. With her huge eyes and droning voice, Molly soon hypnotizes
everyone in town. She sets off after Rocky and hypnotizes her way
into stardom and a room at the Waldorf. Alas, Molly acquired the
book by tricking a wicked professor who will stop at nothing to get
the riches hypnotism promises. Molly's solutions to problems are
amusing and all evil is redeemed. The salvation of archetypically
evil (and archetypically disgusting) villains is dissatisfying in a
tale that seems otherwise to be drawing on Roald Dahl and Lemony
Snickett. Clumsy, but amusing. (Fiction. 8-11) (Kirkus Reviews)
Molly has spent all her life in Hardwick House, a miserable orphanage run by hairy-faced Miss Adderstone whose favourite punishment is making Molly clean the toilets with her toothbrush. When Molly finds a mysterious book on hypnotism in the library, she realizes she has an extraordinary talent.
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