Ruby Redfort Pick Your Poison - Paperback

by Lauren Child (Author), Lauren Child (Illustrator)

"Child provides something rare and wonderful in middle-school fiction: the refusal to dumb down content. . . . Long live Ruby Redfort " -- Booklist

Ruby Redfort: You can count on her if you're between a rock and a hard place. A bite from a deadly snake? Pass the antivenin But snakes aren't half as poisonous as the rumors floating around Twinford. It's a lot to chew over. When trouble's out to get you and being smart isn't enough, do you run like crazy, or is it time to brush up on your martial arts?

Author Biography

Lauren Child is the best-selling author-illustrator of a series of picture books about Charlie and Lola as well as the award-winning chapter-book series about the irrepressible Clarice Bean, in which the character Ruby Redfort was introduced. This is the fifth Ruby Redfort novel -- and the next will be the last! -- so the stakes have never been higher. Lauren Child has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. She lives in London.