Harriet the Spy | 
|  | | | Title: | Harriet the Spy | | Author: | Louise Fitzhugh | | Publisher: | Yearling | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 08 May, 2001 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0440416795 / 9780440416791 | | List Price: | $6.50 | | Amazon Price: | $6.50 | |
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Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she’s written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together?
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Ages 8-12. Thirty-two years before it was made into a movie, Harriet the Spy was a groundbreaking book: its unflinchingly honest portrayal of childhood problems and emotions changed children's literature forever. Happily, it has neither dated nor become obsolete and remains one of the best children's novels ever written. The fascinating story is about an intensely curious and intelligent girl, who literally spies on people and writes about them in her secret notebook, trying to make sense of life's absurdities. When her classmates find her notebook and read her painfully blunt comments about them, Harriet finds herself a lonely outcast. Fitzhugh's writing is astonishingly vivid, real and engaging, and Harriet, by no means a typical, loveable heroine, is one of literature's most unforgettable characters. School Library Journal wrote, "a tour de force... bursts with life." The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books called it "a very, very funny story." And The Chicago Tribune raved, "brilliantly written... a superb portrait of an extraordinary child."
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Customer Reviews:
• A 7-year-old Book-worm's Review! 07 July, 2007
I liked this book because it was full of action. I liked the characters, especially Janie because when she was mad, she smiled. Isn't that funny?
I also liked that it had a happy ending.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1XG14I0DXLJU6
• Harriet The Spy 29 April, 2007
This is a story about a girl named Harriet who goes to a private middle school. One day Harriet decides to keep a journal and become a spy. She goes around town recording her opinions about everyone and everything she sees. Will her secrets be exposed? What will happen to Harriet? Read the book to find out.
I would recommend this book for children who enjoy reading about secrets being exposed and friendship.
In acting like a spy, she writes down things she observes about people. For example, she says a guy with purple socks is boring. Another example from her journal is when she says if Marian Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady dictator. One important secret she found out was that her friend was popular with everybody only because they liked her mother's lemonade.
Harriet's secrets get her in trouble with her classmates, but by telling the truth she wins her friends back.
I hope you buy this book and read about Harriet's problems and solutions.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1E4XYD0YH1R1G
• Harriet The Spy-- 12 March, 2008
Wonderful book for teens. There is a few things that pertain to the female body maturing that made it a bit awkward for me while reading to ALL of my children but other than that, it is a sweet coming of age book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A33PNAQ33DGBJG
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