Harriet the Spy [Paperback]

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?ANew 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 Holmesfor 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 ofFreedomandThe Corrections

Harriet the Spybursts with life. —School Library Journal

The characterizations are marvelously shrewd. —The BulletinLouise 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 booksHarriet the Spy,The Long Secret,andSporthave been acclaimed as milestones of children’s literature. These classics delight readers year after year.CHAPTER 1

Harriet was trying to explain to Sport how to play Town. “See, first you make up the name of the town. Then you write down the names of all the people who live in it. You can’t have too many or it gets too hard. I usually have twenty-five.”

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