A wonderful short story Book for children of early to mid teen years plus a few of us adults too, who like to be drawn into a world of mystery & magic. The Main Characters Milly , her dog Angus & Brother Tommie plus newly made friend Cora & her Cat Patty with some help from Cora's Uncle Chester stop another relative from carrying out an evil plan . I shall be buying a copy of this for both of my granddaughters both in the UK & Japan as I know they will enjoy this.

Milly who is the central character of this book becomes friends with her new neighbour Cora, while other girls her age, specially her sibling Tommy, believes spending time on his phone, Milly feels like kids should play more. She often visits Cora's new home and one day while playing, they find a secret room. This room comes with a journal of Cora's uncle Chester. Out of curiosity, they try some potions written in that journal like, talking to animals, permanent mood enhancer, dream manipulation, etc and they seem to work like magic.

As the girls are impressed with these potions, they also come to know the truth of Lance's medicine, which consists of potion that would magically make all children behave obediently, loose their childishness and behave like adults. He started putting this dose in children through the process of vaccination. When Milly and Cora find about it, they try to stop him, but even Cora becomes victim to one such vaccination and now Milly is left on her own to work the situation out.

The story started out interesting and good for children, but in the middle of the plot the Lance and Chester connection with the girls got a bit confusing. Maybe because this was an advanced copy, there were half chapters too like. 7 and 7 (1/2) which hit the reader out of the blue and made no sense. The plot was well thought but the execution or the writing part had its flaws. But one can positively hope that in the final copy, it wall be more suitable for the reader.

Thank you to Victory Editing for sending me an ebook review copy through NetGalley of Milly and the Tale from Across the Street written by Martha Klopp.

This was such an exciting mystery and I really enjoyed getting to read it and see what Milly was going to do next and what potion would be done and how quickly things changed.

Milly always admired the house across the street and then one day a new family moved in including Cora a girl her own age, while exploring the house together they found a hidden room with a journal, secret recipes and the ingredients for them, they took to experimenting together having fun until they discovered something, that someone else had used them and had dark plans. Milly on her own ends up having to solve the problems and save the children from being “Zombies”.

This book was honestly a fun read, i loved the potions element and all the things they were playing around with to see what it would really do. The characters were all very well written and connected well to each other. I really liked that it was also a mystery that you didn’t know how it was all going to be solved and you were rooting for Milly to fix the whole thing and fast so no one else would get the “cure”.

I recommend this book, it’s an exciting and fun read, written really well and will entice you into the story so quickly, you’ll want to solve it with Milly.