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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mabel_jones.jpg]]
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3	''Mabel Jones'' is a series of fantasy-adventure children’s books, written by British author Will Mabbitt and illustrated by Ross Collins.
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5	'''The books currently released include:'''
6	#''The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones'' (2015)
7	#''Mabel Jones and The Forbidden City'' (2016)
8	#''Mabel Jones and the Doomsday Book'' (2016)
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11	!! ''Mabel Jones'' provides examples of:
12	* ActionGirl: the titular character fought with her cutlass and went on “unlikely” adventures.
13	* AnimalIsTheNewMan: The Noo World is inhabited by animals with very few humans remaining.
14	* BadassAdorable: Mabel. She is shown to be able to fight off pirates and carry out many major feats, despite being a child.
15	%%* ButtMonkey
16	%%* CoolOldGuy
17	%%* DeadpanSnarker
18	%%* DefeatMeansFriendship
19	%%* DisneyVillainDeath
20	%%* {{Foreshadowing}}
21	%%* FunnyAnimal
22	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: The animals of the Noo world are this to varying extents, with some of them wearing just trousers. However, there are some animals who dress up properly.
23	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Omynus takes a bullet meant for Mabel]]. He gets better.
24	%%* IntergenerationalFriendship
25	* InterspeciesFriendship: Mabel and Omynus become friends [[spoiler: after Mabel saved Omynus from the Count]].
26	%%* {{Jerkass}}
27	%%* LittleMissBadass
28	%%* LittleMissSnarker
29	%%* ManiacMonkeys
30	* PirateGirl: Mabel joins a pirate crew of FunnyAnimals called the Feroshus Maggot.
31	* PajamaCladHero: Mabel never takes off her pyjamas while in the Noo World, despite wearing the pyjamas for weeks without changing them. This is taken to ridiculous levels during the only time she DID take them off--dressing a skeleton in her pyjamas as a distraction--only to immediately change back into her pyjamas when the danger was over despite them just having been on a, well, skeleton. She must really like wearing her pyjamas.
32	** Jarvis also qualifies in book 1 based on the Illustrations, although by Book 2 he is instead shown wearing clothes more suitable for engineering.
33	%%* RagTagBunchOfMisfits
34	%%* RedIsHeroic
35	%%* SamusIsAGirl
36	%%* SavageWolves
37	%%* SissyVillain
38	* StickyFingers: Omynus.
39	* SweetTooth: Mabel carries around a bag of Jelly Babies in Book 2
40	* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Omynus at the end of book 1. He gets better. ]]
41	* TheyHaveTheScent:In Book 2, Mabel fights a giant centipede with poor vision and tracks its prey via smell, fighting Mabel with the smell of[[spoiler: her pyjamas. Mabel exploits this by taking off her pyjamas and putting them on a skeleton as a distraction. ]]
42	%%* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak
43	* TookALevelInKindness: Omynus Hush towards Mabel.

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