Harriet the Spy
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Publisher Description
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
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Harriet the Spy caused quite a ruckus in children’s literature when it was published in 1964—and it remains an essential read. At a time when kids’ books mostly featured well-behaved kids in anonymous suburbs, 11-year-old Harriet M. Welsch was living her best life on a realistically depicted Upper East Side of Manhattan. A mouthy tomboy in high-top sneakers, Harriet writes down everything she sees—and thinks—about her classmates, her teachers, and the random strangers she spies on after school. Naturally, when she loses her private notebook on the playground and its contents become public knowledge, things get complicated. Although author Louise Fitzhugh presents Harriet as a proud outsider, she also makes everyone else in her diverse New York—even obvious bad guys like Harriet’s mean-girl classmate Marion—feel like well-rounded people with their own problems and hopes. Decades later, all of the book’s characters still feel beautifully real.
