Ruby Redfort
Subtitle: look into my eyes
By: by Lauren Child
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780007334063; 9780007452705; 9780007334070
Subjects: Juvenile works; Detective and mystery stories; Adventure and adventurers; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Code and cipher stories; Fiction 9+; Children's stories; General
Other titles: Look into my eyes
Description: Ruby Redfort is a genius code-cracker, a daring detective, and a gadget-laden special agent who just happens to be a 13-year-old girl. She and her slick side-kick butler, Hitch, foil crimes and get into loads of scrapes with evil villains, but they're always ice-cool in a crisis.
Table of contents: title: Here's the low-down on Ruby Redfort: she's a genius code-cracker, a daring detective, and a gadget-laden special agent who just happens to be a thirteen-year-old girl. She and her slick side-kick butler, Hitch, foil crimes and get into loads of scrapes with evil villains, but they're always ice-cool in a crisis. In this first book, we go right back to Ruby's beginnings as an agent. When an anonymous caller sets Ruby a challenge, it's not long before she finds her way into the HQ of the most secret of secret agencies; title: SPECTRUM. They need her help to crack a code but her desk job soon spirals into an all-out action adventure, as Ruby uncovers the dastardly plans of the formidable Fool's Gold Gang!