Ruby Redfort Catch Your Death (Ruby Redfort Series #3)

by Lauren Child, Lauren Child (Illustrator)

Overview

There’s more to most things than meets the eye—or nose—as code-cracking, wisecracking girl detective Ruby Redfort discovers in her third adventure.

Wild animals roaming around Twinford? Ruby Redfort has heard the rumors, but she doesn’t quite believe them. She’s got enough on her mind doing wilderness survival training with the secret agency Spectrum, and her bad eyesight isn’t helping. But as high society buzzes with news of a very exclusive perfume formula coming to town, and some priceless jewelry goes missing, Ruby begins to sense a sinister plot in the works. Can our favorite action hero sniff out the clues in time to keep Twinford safe from evil scents? Well, let’s say this is one of those times when you gotta forget the rules and follow your nose to survive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763654696
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	02/10/2015
Series:	Ruby Redfort Series , #3
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 7.40(h) x 1.60(d)
Lexile:	820L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

About the Author

Lauren Child is the best-selling author- illustrator of a series of picture books about Charlie and Lola (who also star in their own TV series) as well as the award-winning chapter-book series about the irrepressible Clarice Bean, where the character of Ruby Redfort was first introduced. Lauren Child has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. She lives in London.

Editorial Reviews

An entertaining escapade with an offbeat whiff.
—Kirkus Reviews

The female protagonist in this novel is lively and will easily appeal to readers of both genders.
—VOYA

From the Publisher

2014-11-18
Teenage spy-in-training Ruby Redfort sniffs out something rotten in the town of Twinford in her third outing.Ruby's injured, ill and feeling her nascent career as a field agent hanging by a thread in the wake of a disastrous wilderness-survival test. She nonetheless soldiers on intrepidly as Child draws together seemingly unrelated incidents and puzzles: antique jewelry disappearing from a posh department store, rumored sightings of exotic creatures on the loose, Ruby's best friend's struggles to earn his father's respect, an attractive stranger ruthlessly interrogating a captive in a windowless warehouse, a forest fire, a corpse, legends of a particularly dangerous wolf and more. Ultimately, it all turns out to be a scheme involving a certain mind-altering musk, and not only does the author create a properly redolent atmosphere from the outset by pouring references to scents, odors, stinks and perfumes into the narrative, she concocts an actual cipher based on fragrances for Ruby to solve. The many short chapters and changes in point of view give the narrative an aimless air, but it moves more quickly than the page count suggests to a moderately suspenseful climax that leaves this expert sleuth, forger, lock-picker and sneak on her feet. Stay tuned for further adventures. Not exactly a high-tension page-turner, but an entertaining escapade with an offbeat whiff. (multiple afterwords) (Mystery. 9-14)

Kirkus Reviews