Take Your Last Breath
Ruby Redfort (Book 2)
- Author Lauren Child
- Narrator Rachael Stirling
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 25 September 2014
- Run Time 7 hours and 49 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories.
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What to expect
Hey, buster! Normal life is a total yawn. Break out of boredom with this super-awesome series from multi-million-copy bestseller Lauren Child. And get ready to meet Ruby Redfort:code-cracking genius. Intrepid detective. Schoolgirl.
Ruby Redfort burst onto the scene in October 2011, and, in the words of Julia Eccleshare, “put imagination and fun back into childhood”.
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 of the Twinford pirates while evading the clutches of a vile sea monster as well as the evil Count von Viscount? Well, you wouldn’t want to bet against her…
Critics Review
Praise for Lauren Child:
n‘Lauren Child is a publishing phenomenon’ – Observer Magazine
n‘Lauren Child is so good it’s exhilarating’ – The Independent
nPraise for the Ruby Redfort series:
n‘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
n‘Redfort is one of the best things to happen to ten-plus British fiction’ The Times
n‘The new Ruby Redfort book is utterly exceptionordinarily brilliant’ – Clarice Bean
n‘Lauren Child has put imagination and fun back into the real worlds of childhood’ – Julia Eccleshare, Guardian
n‘Cool, punchy, stylish’ – Sun
n‘A cracking adventure’ – Mail
n‘What more could adventure-loving girls want?’ – The Sunday Times
n| Author | Lauren Child |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Rachael Stirling |
| Series | Ruby Redfort |
| Duration | 7 hours and 49 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9780007468096 |
| Format | x-book® |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Genre | Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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