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Harriet the Spy Paperback - 2001

by Louise Fitzhugh

Harriet, would-be writer and avid observer of life, records everything she sees and hears. But what is she to do after her treasured notebook falls into the wrong hands?


Summary

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?From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the publisher

Louise Fitzhugh (1928–1974) was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She attended Bard College, studied art in Italy and France, and continued her studies in New York at the Art Students League and at Cooper Union. Her books Harriet the Spy, The Long Secret, and Sport have been acclaimed as milestones of children’s literature. These classics delight readers year after year.


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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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  • Title Harriet the Spy
  • Author Louise Fitzhugh
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yearling Books, New York
  • Date 2001-05-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780440416791 / 0440416795
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9 in (19.30 x 12.95 x 2.29 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 760
  • Themes
    • Catalog Heading: Classics
    • Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
  • Library of Congress subjects Schools, Harriet the Spy (Fictitious character)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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A New York Public Library's 100 Great Children's Books 100 Years selection

"This is the book that made me want to be a writer. [Harriet] was the first fictional female character I ever came across who privileged her own truth above the expectations put on her as a little girl."  —Anna Holmes for Bookish.com

“I don’t know of a better novel about the costs and rewards of being a truth teller, nor of any book that made more readers of my generation want to become fiction writers. I love the story of Harriet so much I feel as if I lived it.” —Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom and The Corrections

"Harriet the Spy bursts with life."—School Library Journal

"The characterizations are marvelously shrewd."—The Bulletin

About the author

Louise Fitzhugh (1928-1974) was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She attended Bard College, studied art in Italy and France, and continued her studies in New York at the Art Students League and at Cooper Union. Her books Harriet the Spy, The Long Secret, and Sport have been acclaimed as milestones of children's literature. These classics delight readers year after year.
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