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Molly Moon & the Morphing Mystery

“Goodness me,” he gasped. Outside was a grand, long black car with a little flag set on its roof above its front windshield. Checking his hands to see that they were clean, Todson opened the door and found himself looking into the eyes of someone dressed rather like himself.

“Good morning,” Smuthers, the queen’s butler, said. “Is Molly Moon in?”

Todson’s eyes opened wide as he saw the queen herself, dressed in a country coat, talking to a Rasta on the steps below.

“I’m a-a-afraid she’s not,” he stuttered. “But her best friend, Rocky, is upstairs. I could call him down. Could he help? Please come in.”

“Thank you very much,” Smuthers said. Then, in a whisper, he added, “You’ve got a bit of egg on your collar.”

“Ah, thank you.” Todson nodded with a wink. He removed the egg and stepped back to let the visitors in.

The queen smiled graciously as she passed. “Thank you so much.”

“Tank you,” said her Jamaican companion.

“I was lucky, Leonard,” Todson caught the queen saying to the man. “I had Smuthers to talk to. Poor you! You must have thought you were losing your marbles. You know, no one else believed me. Thank goodness for Smuthers.” She paused as she looked at her surroundings. “And thank goodness for the Moon children. I am so looking forward to meeting them.”

Leonard smiled. “Yeah. Feel like I’ve known them for years.”

Acknowledgments

As always, a forever-grateful thank-you to my agent, Caradoc King, who believed in me and Molly so early on.

And to Sarah Dudman, the best editor in the world!

About the Author

Georgia Byng's brain has been stretched for this book. She is now in a hamster cage, recovering. The only comment she could make about this Molly Moon adventure was, “SQUEAK!”

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Copyright

MOLLY MOON & THE MORPHING MYSTERY. Copyright © 2010 by Georgia Byng. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Byng, Georgia.

Molly Moon & the morphing mystery/ Georgia Byng.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Having acquired the skill of morphing, Molly Moon can inhabit any creature she wants but, unless she can find the ancient book of hypnotism in time, she risks never getting back into her own body.

ISBN 978-0-06-166160-0 (trade bdg.)

ISBN 978-0-06-166161-7 (lib. bdg.)

[1. Shapeshifting—Fiction. 2. Identity—Fiction. 3. Hypnotism—Fiction. 4. Orphans—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Title: Molly Moon and the morphing mystery.

PZ7.B9887Mq 2010 2009054131

[Fic]—dc22 CIP

EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199840-9

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