Ruby Redfort is a book series written by Lauren Child. The plot involves a teenage girl named Ruby Redfort who is a masterful code-cracker and becomes an agent at a secret organisation called Spectrum.
The books are
- Ruby Redfort, Look Into My Eyes
- Ruby Redfort, Take Your Last Breath
- Ruby Redfort, Catch Your Death
- Ruby Redfort, Feel the Fear
- Ruby Redfort, Pick Your Poison and
- Ruby Redfort, Blink and You Die.
Hang in there Bozo: The Ruby Redfort Emergency Survival Guide for Some Tricky Predicaments is a companion book to the series; it is a survival guide written by Ruby.
The stories were first introduced in Lauren Child's best-selling Clarice Bean books, where the main character Clarice reads them.
The six books feature a sense themed code that Ruby has to solve - the first book is based on sight, the second hearing, the third smell, the fourth touch, the fifth taste and the sixth on the ‘sixth sense’.