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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780440416791
ISBN: 0440416795
Label: Yearling
Manufacturer: Yearling
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: May 08, 2001
Publisher: Yearling
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: May 08, 2001
Sales Rank: 1875
Studio: Yearling
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Product Description:
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?
Amazon.com Review:
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.'
Average Rating: 
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Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch experiences stormy
days in 6th grade as a result of her habit/hobby/obsession:
writing down her thoughts and observations in a notebook all during the day. Not just on her after-school Spy Route (when she snoops through windows and even sneaks into private homes to ferret out information about her adult neighbors). Oh no, but during the schoolday in her actual classroom--when she should be concentrating on lessons or doing her work. But for Harriet ... Read More
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I don't remember how old I was when I first read Harriet the Spy, but I read it and read it and read it. Reading it now with my eight-year-old daughter, I am reminded of what a strong influence this book had on me. I tried to spy like Harriet, and got a stern talking to from my mother not to listen at phones. I ate tomato sandwiches, and occasionally still do! I started writing in notebooks from age 12 onwards. But most of all, I recognized a kindred spirit - a child who was not always kind, felt ... Read More
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Harriet the Spy
By Louise Fitzhugh
I have read Harriet the Spy, watched the movie and listened to the book on tape. I don't seem to tire of this story. My daughter was a writer from an early age, and has been known to carry around a journal, to record events and ideas. We were both devastated when Harriet's classmates got their hands on her notebook and read about her impressions of them.
If you have a tendency to spy or are curious about the world, you will ... Read More
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Here's another book from four decades ago that doesn't hold up well compared to today's superior children's books. I was yearning for way more action. And definitely more wackiness. There are a few wacky and clever happenstances yet I wanted more of that and less of Harriet sitting around thinking, complaining and writing, thinking, writing and complaining. The first half of the book was okay, but after that I lost interest. Harriet was not interesting enough, for me anyway, to care about what happened ... Read More
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If children's literature was truly given its due, this would go down as one of the Great American Novels. A zany adventure for kids and a brilliant social satire for grown-ups, this novel encaptures the rites of childhood and the life of the upper-class in Kennedy Era New York City. But it for the kids, but be sure to sneak a read for yourself.
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