Published
October 2012 Harper Collins
From
the publisher:
Now, everyone′s favourite girl detective is back for a
second mind-blowing instalment, packed with all the off-the-wall humour, action
and friendship of the first book. This time, though, it′s an adventure on the
wide open ocean, and Ruby is all at sea... Can she crack the case while evading
the clutches of the evil Count von Viscount? Well, you wouldn′t want to bet
against her...
It
must be my week for books about smart girls.
This is the second Ruby Redfort book, and it’s one of those books where
I had girls coming in every day asking me ‘Is it here yet? Is it here yet?’, and that doesn’t happen all
that often. Well it is here, and if you
loved the first book, you will undoubtedly love this one too.
If
you are not familiar with Ruby Redfort then I will fill you in. Lauren Child wrote a series of books about a
character called Clarice Bean, and in those books Clarice read a series of
books about Ruby Redfort. At that time
there was no such series, Lauren Child kept getting asked ‘Where can I buy
those Ruby Redfort books from?’, and she had to tell people that they were made
up, they didn’t exist. Eventually Lauren Child decided that she should write
the Ruby Redfort books herself…so she did.
Ruby
is a super smart code loving 13 year old girl, who has a secret job working as
a spy for Spectrum. She spends most of
her time alone or with her best friend Clancy or housekeeper… Her parents are extremely wealthy, but are
more absent than not, and they have no idea what Ruby gets up to with Spectrum.
Because
of her skills with codes and code cracking, Ruby and Clancy often communicate
in code, some of these are decoded at the back of the book, but others you just
have to figure out yourself. In this
book one of the codes used is the, Chime Melody musical code, which of course
our little code cracker figures out. For
us mere mortals there is information at the back of the book as to how Ruby
cracked the code. As well as evil villains, pirates and spies, this story also
has a ‘creature from the deep’. If the
humans aren’t enough trouble, how will
they manage to escape the clutches of a GIANT octopus.
Ruby
has a penchant for wearing some sassy, and at times inappropriate
T-Shirts, Some of my favourite T-shirts
include: could you repeat that? I wasn’t actually listening and wake me if
things get interesting. Ruby also has rules,
all of which are numbered, like Rule 12: Adjust your thinking and your chances
improve and my favourite, Rule 1: You can never be completely sure what might
happen next.
For
more things Ruby, and even a look at her room go to:
Who will like this
book: Girls age 9+
Read it if you like: Look into My Eyes by Lauren Child
Read it if you like: Look into My Eyes by Lauren Child
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