This audiobook is by Georgia Byng and Molly Moon is an orphan and her best friend is a boy named Rocky and she is unpopular with the other kids. Molly also gets in trouble a lot as the lady who runs the orphanage is nasty to children. Though this lady has a black pug named Petula and when Molly learns how to hypnotize people from a book:

Molly takes pity on Petula and stops her, from eating chocolate biscuits like Tim Tams by hypnotizing her. As this black pug thinks she doesn’t like Tim Tams anymore (chocolate isn’t good for dogs to eat anyway). Molly also enters a talent quest competition, and she tells her audience that she can read their minds when really, she is hypnotizing them. She ends up winning the competition as everyone thinks her act was, great.

Then with her winnings she walks into a shop and buys a pendulant, and then she goes overseas to New York (taking Petula with her).

However, while she and Petula are in America things start going wrong for Molly when Petula is stolen but Molly’s friend Rocky turns up.