Waterstones Children's Laureate Lauren Child's best-selling first novel in the Ruby Redfort series.Hey,buster! Normal life is a total yawn. Break out of boredom with Ruby Redfort,the super-awesome teen detective series from multi-million-copy bestseller Lauren Child...Want to know more Of course you do,bozo. 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 sidekick 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 - 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...
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Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780007334070Number of pages: 400Weight: 350 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 29 mm
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Praise for Lauren Child:
'Lauren Child is a publishing phenomenon'- Observer Magazine
'Lauren Child is so good it's exhilarating'- The Independent
Praise for the Ruby Redfort series:
'The coolest girl hero in years...Child refuses to write down to her tween and teen audience and challenges readers with more twists than a curling tongs party'The Times
'Redfort is one of the best things to happen to ten-plus British fiction'The Times
'The new Ruby Redfort book is utterly exceptionordinarily brilliant'- Clarice Bean
'Lauren Child has put imagination and fun back into the real worlds of childhood'- Julia Eccleshare,Guardian
'Cool,punchy,stylish'- Sun
'A cracking adventure'- Mail
'What more could adventure-loving girls want'- The Sunday Times
Lauren Child
With a unique ability to see the world through a child's eyes,the aptly named author and illustrator Lauren Child is one of the most influential and innovative writers of her generation. In 2017 she was announced as the new Waterstones'Children's Laureate,declaring that her aim will be to forge'stronger links between the world of children's literature and other art forms such as fine art,film,music,television and design.'
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