Look into My Eyes
Lauren Child
Harper Collins
ISBN 978 000733406 3
Ruby is an ace codebreaker, a no-holds-barred detective and a secret special agent for an underground organisation that protects us all from danger.
Ruby is also a fairly normal 13-year-old. You could walk past her in the street and not give her a second glance. But that is all part of her dual identity. Ruby's job is to take on the most dastardly of villains.
Ruby Redfort: Look into my Eyes is the first novel in a proposed series of six featuring the extraordinary teenager. She is the latest character created by youth fiction author Lauren Child.
The Redforts live in a small American town where nothing much happens. Ruby is bright, funny, friendly - and sometimes bored.
She loves doing puzzles and cracking codes. At seven, she won a junior code-cracking championship. Then, at eight, she devised a code that professors at Harvard University took two weeks to crack. People were beginning to take notice of young Miss Redfort.