Take Your Last Breath
Hey, buster! Normal life is a total yawn. So break out boredom with multi-million-copy bestselling author Lauren Child, and meet your new favourite heroine… Ruby Redfort: detective, secret agent, thirteen-year-old kid.Everyone’s favourite kid 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…
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First published in hardback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Childrenâs Books 2012First published in paperback by HarperCollins Childrenâs Books 2013This electronic edition published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Childrenâs Books 2015HarperCollins Childrenâs Books is a division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd,HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge StreetLondon SE1 9GFThe HarperCollins Childrenâs Books website address iswww.harpercollins.co.uk
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Based on an original series design by David Mackintosh
Inside illustrations by David Mackintosh
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Rave Reviews for Ruby Redfort
âRedfort is one of the best things to happen to ten-plus British fiction⦠these are modern classics.â The Times
âLauren Child has put imagination and fun back into the real worlds of childhood.â Julia Eccleshare, Guardian
âClues, gadgets, secret HQs, a heist, explosions⦠T-shirts with cool slogans and a supply of jelly doughnuts. What more could adventure-loving girls want?â Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times
âCool, punchy, stylish.â Sun
âI like the way Ruby is not a girlie girl and has lots of adventures.â Amazon
âTotally amazing⦠a book you canât put down!â www.goodreads.com
Contents
Chapter 1. Donât back away or they will see you as prey
Chapter 2. One drop could save your life
Chapter 3. Plankton and sea cucumbers
Chapter 4. The recurring dream
Chapter 5. The shape of a condor
Chapter 7. Dolphins, sharks - theyâre all the same
Chapter 13. -... . .- - / .. - --..-- / -. --- ... -.-- / .--. .- .-. -.- . .-.
Chapter 14. Another Twinford Bay casualty
Chapter 15. Clutching at straws
Chapter 17. Something fearsome this way comes
Chapter 19. Strange and old-fashioned
Chapter 20. A real potato head
Chapter 22. No news is good news
Chapter 23. Love without words
Chapter 25. Once in a blue moon
Chapter 27. An unblemished record
Chapter 30. The toes of the sisters
Chapter 31. A seahorse and a golden bird
Chapter 32. From the jaws of death
Chapter 33. Time for some answers
Chapter 34. Laugh all you like, sucker
Chapter 35. Connecting the dots
Chapter 36. Stranger things have happened at sea
Chapter 39. Your motherâs jewel
Chapter 40. Looking for trouble
Chapter 42. Whatever happened to plan B?
Chapter 45. You can count on me
Chapter 47. Whereâs an apple barrel when you need one?
Chapter 48. The truth is indigo
Chapter 49. The truth will out
About the Author
THE SUN FLICKERED ON THE OCEAN, cutting bright diamonds of light into the surface of the indigo water. A three-year-old girl was peering over the side of a sailboat, staring down into the deep. The only sounds came from her parentsâ laughter, the sing-song hum of a manâs voice and the clapping of the waves against the yacht.
Gradually the sounds became less and less distinct until the girl was quite alone with the ocean. It seemed to be pulling her, drawing her to it⦠confiding a secret, almost whispering to her.
She barely felt herself fall as she tipped forward and slipped into the soft ink of the sea.
Down she twisted, her arms, her legs above her like tendrils. The water felt smooth and perfectly cold; fish darted and silver things whisked by â her breath bubbled up as transparent pearls.
