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Harriet the Spy

by Louise Fitzhugh Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE

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A notebook puts friendships to the test

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Editorial selection
A New York Public Library 100 Great Children’s Books 100 Years selection
Selected for the New York Public Library’s “100 Great Children’s Books 100 Years” list.

A notebook puts friendships to the test

Harriet turns close observation into a private record of the people around her, including her classmates and closest friends. When that notebook falls into the wrong hands, her candid entries become impossible to keep private, and the story’s focus shifts to the consequences of what she has written. The premise links curiosity and writing with questions of honesty, privacy, and how words affect friendships. Harriet’s notebook is not just a record of daily life: it becomes the source of a conflict she must try to repair.

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Children ages 9–12, matching the supplied audience information.
Readers interested in stories about school friendships and the consequences of private writing.
Young readers who enjoy observant protagonists and notebook-keeping.

Themes

FriendshipHonesty and privacyWriting and its effectsObservation

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Book overview

Share the timeless classic that kids will love to discover and adults will love to revisit! It's no secret that every day can be an adventure if you just look carefully enough...

"Finding Harriet as a young writer in the mid-1960s was inspiring. It meant I wasn't the only one who wanted to tell stories about kids who were real."--JUDY BLUME

"I don't know of a better novel. . . . I love the story of Harriet so much I feel as if I lived it."--JONATHAN FRANZEN

A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIME - A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 100 GREAT CHILDREN'S BOOKS 100 YEARS SELECTION - NOW AN APPLE TV+ SERIES

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?

"What the novel showed me as a child is that words have the power to hurt, but they can also heal."--Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot

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