Lauren Child

Series

Summary

Charlie helps Lola get ready for bed, despite the tigers, whales, and other animals that serve as obstacles.

3) Ruby Redfort: Look into my eyes

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Series

Ruby Redfort volume 1

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Summary

Thirteen-year-old Ruby, a genius code-cracker and daring detective, gets an anonymous call setting a challenge that leads her to the headquarters of Spectrum, a highly secret anti-crime agency that needs her help to crack a code, but soon Ruby uncovers dastardly plans of the Fool's Gold Gang.

4) I am too absolutely small for school

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When Lola is worried about starting school, her older brother Charlie reassures her.

5) Ruby Redfort take your last breath

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Series

Ruby Redfort volume 2

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Summary

An adventure on the wide open ocean, and Ruby is all at sea. Can she crack the case while evading the clutches of the evil Count von Viscount? Well, you wouldn't want to bet against her.

6) Ruby Redfort catch your death

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Series

Ruby Redfort volume 3

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Summary

Thirteen-year-old Ruby Redfort is an undercover agent and genius codebreaker. 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...

7) Ruby Redfort blink and you die

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Series

Ruby Redfort volume 6

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"Ruby Redfort: you can count on her when the ice starts to crack. Falling through the air at 120 miles per hour? Just relax and think fast. But now even Ruby Redfort is running scared. A bunch of people want her dead, and worst of all, one of them is on her team. When your name is first on a mastermind's hit list, do you lock the doors, switch off the lights, and wait for someone else to do something? Or do you get out there and save yourself? If...

8) Charlie and Lola: But excuse me that is my book

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When Lola's favorite book is not on the library's shelf, her older brother, Charlie, tries to find another book she will enjoy.

9) That pesky rat

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Buckaroo Award Past Nominations

Appears on list

Summary

A brown street rat, who longs to be someone's pet and to have his very own name, gets lucky when he meets a man in the pet shop who has extremely poor eyesight.

10) Clarice Bean spells trouble

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Summary

Clarice Bean, aspiring actress and author, unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting into trouble as she attempts to help a friend in need by following the rules of the fictional, "exceptionordinarily" spy, Ruby Redfort.

11) Utterly me, Clarice Bean

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When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective.

12) I will never not ever eat a tomato

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A fussy eater decides to sample the carrots after her brother convinces her that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter.

13) The goody

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Goody

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"Chirton Krauss is a good child--the very goodest. He does everything he is told, when he is told. He even does good things without being told. He eats his broccoli, he goes to bed on time, and he never, ever sticks his finger up his nose. Meanwhile, Chirton's sister, Myrtle, is not quite as good. She stays up late, she never cleans out the rabbit's pen, and she drops her cocoa puffs all over the rug. But what will happen when Chirton Krauss decides...

14) Snow is my favorite and my best

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"When the weatherman predicts snow, Lola absolutely cannot wait"--Front jacket flap.

15) We are extremely very good recyclers

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Lola learns about recycling and enters a recycling competition. Includes recycling tips as well as a tree poster for kids to keep track of their own recycling projects.

16) I completely know about guinea pigs

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Lola brings the class guinea pig home for school vacation and when he escapes Charlie tries to help her find him before anything happens to him and before Lola has to go back to school.

17) Absolutely one thing

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Charlie and Lola choose a single treat at the store, count ladybugs, note the lateness of the time, and are introduced to other simple math concepts.

18) Say cheese!

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19) Who's afraid of the big bad book?

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A boy who loves books but has not always treated them well falls asleep and finds himself in his book of fairy tales, where his interaction with everyone from Goldilocks to Cinderella wreaks havoc.

20) Who wants to be a poodle I don't

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