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| Title | : | Harriet the Spy (Harriet the Spy #1) |
| Author | : | Louise Fitzhugh |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Classic Edition, US/CAN |
| Pages | : | Pages: 300 pages |
| Published | : | 2002 by Yearling (first published 1964) |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Fiction. Young Adult |
Louise Fitzhugh
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 300 pages Rating: 3.95 | 93229 Users | 2353 Reviews
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Harriet the Spy has a secret notebook that she fills with utterly honest jottings about her parents, her classmates, and her neighbors. Every day on her spy route she "observes" and notes down anything of interest to her:I BET THAT LADY WITH THE CROSS-EYE LOOKS IN THE MIRROR AND JUST FEELS TERRIBLE.
PINKY WHITEHEAD WILL NEVER CHANGE. DOES HIS MOTHER HATE HIM? IF I HAD HIM I'D HATE HIM.
IF MARION HAWTHORNE DOESN'T WATCH OUT SHE'S GOING TO GROW UP INTO A LADY HITLER.
But when Harriet's notebook is found by her schoolmates, their anger and retaliation and Harriet's unexpected responses explode in a hilarious way.
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| Original Title: | Harriet the Spy |
| ISBN: | 0440416795 (ISBN13: 9780440416791) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.rhcbooks.com/books/50095/harriet-the-spy-by-louise-fitzhugh |
| Series: | Harriet the Spy #1 |
| Characters: | Harriet M. Welsch, Ole Golly, Simon "Sport" Rocque, Janie Gibbs |
| Setting: | New York City, New York(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1966), Oklahoma Sequoyah Award (1967) |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 93229 Users | 2353 ReviewsEvaluate Containing Books Harriet the Spy (Harriet the Spy #1)
I started reading early and started reading beyond my age level very quickly, so I was pretty much beyond children's books way before I was done being a child. Sometimes it seems like I went directly from Dr. Seuss to Grimm's Fairy Tales and then on to adult books. But this was one children's book that truly changed my life.The book is about a little girl who fancies herself a spy, and keeps a "secret notebook" full of observations about her family, classmates and neighbors. I imagine that mostThe other day my girlfriend said something about her love of tomato and mayonnaise sandwiches, to which I naturally replied "Yeah? Do you like to roll around and pretend you're an onion, too?"And she had no idea what I meant.How do you not know Harriet the Spy? She has to rank competitively with the greatest literary characters of all time- so spunky, so misunderstood, so maligned by her peers toward the end. There was even some kind of high budget film that got made a few years ago. Frankly, it
I like Harriet.Harriet is a spy, but not because she's a creeper. She's intelligent and curious. She's a writer. And in order to be a good writer she needs to learn more about life than she'll learn from her privileged home life or her fairly normal school life.So she spies, and she writes down what she sees and thinks, intentionally working on her descriptive writing skills. She writes about her friends, schoolmates and family, and she writes about the people on her "spy route." She learns
Life-changing. I am not kidding. She was my heroine."Lovely, lovely. Now let's see, vegetables first, vegetables..." Sport started to sprint for the door. Miss Elson pulled him back by the ear. Pinky Whitehead arrived back. Miss Berry turned to him, enchanted. "You will make a wonderful stalk of celery.""What?" said Pinky stupidly."And you"--she pointed at Harriet--"are an ONION."This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.""Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you
I loved this book. Read it first in the fifth grade, then read it at least twice a year after that until it fell out of my book bag in the gym locker room in the seventh grade. Spent the rest of that term known as "Harriet" or "Fuckin' Girly Fag." I guess I preferred "Harriet."
If you've ever spent any time wondering how fictional characters like Olive Kitteridge, Eleanor Oliphant or Don Tillman got to be who they are, you need look no further than Harriet the Spy.It's all here, in this book.Harriet is a lot like these adult characters, but she's a child, an 11-year-old girl. And, we learn quickly, she never suffered abuse or neglect. Neither parent committed suicide. She wasn't sexually molested by a neighbor, either.She's just freaking quirky.Is she somewhere on the
I dont even know how to rate this. Dont ask me why I picked this up. A booktuber who decided to go back and read old childhood favorites to see if they held up inspired me to do the same. I was fairly outraged by her depiction of Harriet as the most vile child protagonist on earth. Not the cute smart little Harriet from my memories! So I decided to pick it up and give it a go. First surprise was that the book was 400 pages. Not the little thin book I was expecting.Now, to be fair. I hardly
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