in miniature : after the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
Child, Lauren
2006
Presents a re-telling of the well-known fairy tale of a young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.
Skilled code-cracker and detective Ruby Redfort has an adventure at sea in which she must crack the case of the Twinford pirates while avoiding a vile sea monster and the evil Count von Viscount.
After Ruby's house is ransacked, she receives odd phone calls and a too-good-to-be-true "household manager" arrives. These events must be related, but how? Includes solutions to puzzles.
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.
Lola disobeys her brother Charlie and breaks the rocket that he just made, and then she must decide whether or not to tell him the truth about what happened.