Have you read the Ruby Redfort series? You should!

Here's everything you need to know about the awesome heroine: Ruby Redfort.

• Ruby Redfort is thirteen and a sort of cross between a sassy kid and a secret agent. She likes TV, comics, books, codes — you name it! She is interested in just about everything and this is what makes her such an interesting girl. Ruby is super-brainy and fearless too (except for small dark spaces, which she is rather scared by. But isn’t everybody?)
  
• Ruby’s Achilles heel is her bad eyesight.
  
• Ruby lives in an eccentric house designed by a famous architect, and her parents are fabulously rich socialites. Ruby Redfort works for a secret organization called SPECTRUM that her parents don’t know anything about. She gets into lots of tricky situations with evil villains, like being trapped in a giant hourglass by Count von Viscount, but she’s always ice-cool in a crisis.
  
• Appearance-wise, Ruby is small for her years — at first glance a very ordinary looking kid. As far as her attire goes, she’s got her own style. More often than not is seen in jeans, sneakers, a t-shirt printed with either a somewhat hostile word, like bozo, and interesting number, like 1729, or some less than agreeable statement, such as ‘Bored beyond belief’.
  
• Ruby has lots of gadgets, which are usually disguised as everyday objects:
  - A life saving rescue watch
  - Mini locator key ring
  - Voice thrower dog whistle
  - A toaster that also converts into a special fax machine. And if you press the button down, a secret message gets transmitted from Ruby’s boss at SPECTRUM

Ruby’s Talent

Probably the most important thing you need to know, though, is that Ruby is super amazing at breaking codes. When Ruby was just seven years old she won the junior code cracker championships — solving the famous Eisenhauser conundrum in just 17 days and 47 minutes. The following year she entered the ‘Junior Code Creator Contest’ and stunned the judges when they found her code utterly impossible to break.
In the end it was sent to Harvard University professors, who eventually managed to solve it two weeks later.
Ruby’s Rules

Ruby has lots of rules for being a good spy/agent. Here are some:
RULE 1 — You can never be completely sure what might happen next
RULE 18 — People often miss the glaringly obvious
RULE 33 — More often than not, there is a very ordinary explanation for the extraordinary happening