Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge.

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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, and that it’s much better in the long run to use this power for good than for evil."—New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot.

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?

Classic Literature. Juvenile Fiction. Mystery. "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.". HTML:"Harriet the Spy bursts with life.". "The characterizations are marvelously shrewd.". HTML:

This special 50th Anniversary Edition of the classic and ground-breaking coming-of-age novel, Harriet the Spy, includes tributes by Judy Blume, Meg Cabot, Lois Lowry, Rebecca Stead, and many more, as well as a map of Harriet's New York City neighborhood and spy route and original author/editor correspondence.

Using her keen observation skills, 11-year-old Harriet M. Welsch writes down in her notebook what she considers the truth about everyone in and around her New York City neighborhood. When she loses track of her notebook, it ends up in the wrong hands, and before she can stop them, her friends read the sometimes awful things she's observed and written about each of them. How can Harriet find a way to keep her integrity and also put her life and her friendships back together?

"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 of Freedom and The Corrections

From the Hardcover edition..

The discovery of Harriet's secret journal, concerning the personalities and activities of her schoolmates and neighbors, causes pandemonium.

The story about eleven-year old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer, and keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her school mates and people she observes on her after-school "spy route." However, when her classmates find and read her notebook, their anger and retaliation, and Harriet's unexpected responses, explode in a hilarious and often touching manner.

When Harriet's classmates find her diary and read what she has written about them, they decide to make life miserable for her.

Eleven-year-old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer, and keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her schoolmates and people she observes on her after school spy route. However, her classmates find out and read her notebook, retaliate, and she learns that writing is not to use against your friends.

Features an exclusive bonus interview with the Apple TV+ animated series stars, Golden Globe nominee Beanie Feldstein (the voice of Harriet) and Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch (the voice of Ole Golly). 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, and that it’s much better in the long run to use this power for good than for evil."—New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot.

Harriet's ambition to become a writer motivates her to write down in a secret notebook everything she sees, which causes her to get into big trouble when her notebook is found and read out loud by her classmates.

First published by HarperCollinsUS in 1964, this classic children's novel has sold over 4 million copies and was awarded the New York Times Outstanding Book Award. Sixth-grader Harriet attends school on the New York's Upper East Side along with her two best pals, Sport, the jock, and Janie, the mad scientist. After school every day, she takes her notebook and proceeds through her spy route. Climbing on milk crates and hoisting herself up dumbwaiters, Harriet observes the rich lady who never gets out of bed; the man with twenty-five cats and the Italian family who runs a grocery store. She writes brutally warts-and-all notes on them all. Harriet's downfall is that she also writes down her thoughts about people she actually knows. After a game in the park when her notebook is knocked out of her hands and read by her classmates, Harriet's deepest thoughts are revealed and she is quickly ostracised by all her classmates - even the boy with the Purple Socks - who form the Spycatcher's Club to punish her. After her parents find out what's happened, Harriet receives a final, crushing blow. She is no longer allowed to take notes - her parents, her teacher and even the cook search her every day for a contraband notebook. Harriet's only consolation is the love and the wise advice of her nanny who manages to get her through this difficult period in her life. A classic in the US where it was first published and a major motion film from Paramount, Harriet the Spy is a beloved book throughout the world.

Eleven year old Harriet, who is a spy and plans to be an author keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her schoolmates and people she observes on her afterschool spy route, but when some of her classmates read the notebook, they seek revenge.

Harriet, would-be writer and avid observer of life, records everything she sees and hears . . . until her notebooks fall into the wrong hands. Bursts with life . . . a tour de force.--School Library Journal. ALA Notable Children's Book; New York Times Outstanding Children's Book.

Harriet's notebook of her feelings about classmates and neighbors is found by her classmates.

"Harriet the Spy lives in a comfortable brownstone in the east eighties in Manhattan. She is an only child who doesn't like many of the sixth graders in her class. Of course, there's Sport, the writer's son; and Janie, the incipient chemist. But Harriet can't stand Marion Hawthorne and her crowd. Most of all, Harriet loves her nursemaid, Ole Golly ... and a secret notebook which she fills with utterly honest jottings about her parents, her classmates, and her neighbors. Harriet is determined to grow up to be Harriet M. Welsch, the famous writer; and in order to get a head start on her career, she spends part of every day on her spy route "observing" and noting down, in her singular, caustic, comic way, everything of interest to her. The first blow falls when Ole Golly leaves, the second when Harriet's schoolmates find and read her notebook. Their anger and retaliation, Harriet's unexpected responses, and the ingenious methods her teachers and parents use to help turn Harriet the Spy into Harriet M. Welsch combine to make a touching and unusual story."--

Precocious, overprivileged Harriet darts around her Manhattan neighborhood ferreting out and writing down the worst and best on her scene, sparing no one. A provocative sequel, primarily about Harriet's friend Beth, is: The Long Secret (1965).

Read by Anne Bobby 6 hours, 56 mins. 4 cassettes When Harriet Welsch grows up, she wants to be an author. So, she figures it's a good way to practice for her future vocation by writing down everything she sees on her spy route in a secret notebook. You can imagine her horror when the secret notebook is confiscated by her classmates and read aloud! Now Harriet's knee-deep in trouble as the tables are turned on her.

The story about eleven-year old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer, and keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her school mates and people she observes on her after-school "spy route."

The story of a girl whose passion for honesty gets her into trouble. Followed by The Long Secret (1965).

-- New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot.

Eleven-year-old Harriet, who wants to be a writer, writes down everything she sees, but alienates her friends in the process.

The secret notebook, in which Harriet writes all her spy observations, is found by her school mates.

Juvenile Fiction. Mystery. "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.". HTML:"Harriet the Spy bursts with life.". "The characterizations are marvelously shrewd.". cavachon - If you've always wanted to be mischievous but was afraid to get in trouble, you can read about Harriet the Spy's own adventures and live through her! Harriet is an 11 year old girl who spies on different people in her neighborhood -- classmates, neighbors, her family, her nanny -- and scribbles down her brutally honest feelings and observations in a secret notebook. She'll even sneak into this one woman's house and hide in there while she spies on her! The people she spies on are funny characters, each one quirky, dramatic, and fascinating. Harriet herself is quite funny and intelligent. Through spying on all these people, she asks herself a lot of questions about life in general and how these peoples' lives differ from each other. She writes down anything and everything she feels in her secret notebook, including what she REALLY thinks about people she knows. But to Harriet's dismay, her classmates find her secret notebook one day and reads everything out loud, making everyone furious with her. Her friends turn on her and Harriet becomes an outcast for a while. In the end, after some self-reflection and some wise advice from an adult whom she really respects, she learns to be more thoughtful and considerate of other people's feelings. She learns a lot about herself as well through it all. This is a wonderfully entertaining and thought-provoking book that I've read many, many times. And it is also easy to read. Louise Fitzhugh, the author, drew the pictures in the book herself and they're delightful and full of life. I really recommend that you read this; it will be a permanent collection on your bookshelf for years. HTML: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?

From the Trade Paperback edition..

Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. She never goes anywhere without her notebook. She scribbles her brutally honest observations in preparation for her glittering career as a writer. Then one day Harriet's friends find the notebook, and her life is never the same again.

Juvenile Fiction. Mystery. "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.". "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.". HTML:"Harriet the Spy bursts with life.". "The characterizations are marvelously shrewd.". HTML: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?

From the Trade Paperback edition..

Eleven-year-old Harriet, an aspiring writer, learns a difficult lesson when her secret "spy" journal, in which she keeps notes about the people in her neighborhood and school, is read by her classmates who are hurt by what she has written about them.

Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before Harriet can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she's written about each of them.

This special 50th Anniversary Edition of the classic and ground-breaking coming-of-age novel, Harriet the Spy , includes tributes by Judy Blume, Meg Cabot, Lois Lowry, Rebecca Stead, and many more, as well as a map of Harriet's New York City neighborhood and spy route and original author/editor correspondence. Using her keen observation skills, 11-year-old Harriet M. Welsch writes down in her notebook what she considers the truth about everyone in and around her New York City neighborhood. When she loses track of her notebook, it ends up in the wrong hands, and before she can stop them, her friends read the sometimes awful things she's observed and written about each of them. How can Harriet find a way to keep her integrity and also put her life and her friendships back together? “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 of Freedom and The Corrections

While spying on her New York City neighborhood with a new friend, Annie, twelve-year-old Harriet decides that the only way to learn Annie's many secrets is to spy on her, as well.

The adventures of sixth-grader Harriet who keeps a secret notebook about her parents, her classmates, and her neighbors and who aspires to be a famous writer.

Harriet M. Welsch is determined to grow up to be a famous author. She keeps a secret notebook & writes down everything she sees each day

An imaginative and intelligent sixth grader writes and spies.

First published in 1974, a title in which Harriet M. Welsch, aspiring author, keeps a secret journal in which she records her thoughts about strangers and friends alike, but when her friends find the notebook with all its revelations, Harriet becomes the victim of a hate campaign.

Harriet M. Welsch, who is determined to grow up to be a famous author, practices by following a regular spy route each day and writing down everything she sees in her secret notebook.

Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook but some of the students seek revenge after reading it.

A young girl's journal filled with observations about friends and family is found and causes an uproar.

Harriet gets into trouble with her friends at school because she is always playing spy.

Eleven-year-old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer, and keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her schoolmates and people she observes on her after school spy route. However, her classmates find out and read her notebook, retaliate, and she learns that writing is not to use against your friends. Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. She's staked out a spy route, and she writes down everything about everyone she sees -- including her classmates and her best friends -- in her notebook. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before Harriet can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometines awful things she's written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together?

Winnie is full of mad-cap schemes and plans to put her magic to good use. Wilbur is her long-suffering best friend, and everyone's favourite moggy. Join them both in this fantastic gift edition. From Winnie's knicker shop, where spiders sew up the lacy trims, to the time Winnie cooked some lovely turkey tonsil titbits, giggles are guaranteed! Perfect for young readers who are ready to enjoy longer stories with more narrative content, complemented by vibrant illustrations by the brilliant Korky Paul.

Harriet writes everything she sees into her 'spy' notebook as practice for becoming a writer. When her friends find it and read it, Harriet must find a way to apologize to them, and learns that sometimes the truth really does hurt.

Harriet is probably the most accomplished 11-year-old spy. She dreams of being a writer and her nanny told her to start by writing down everything she sees. It's all in good fun, that is until her friends find her private writings. Now they don't like Harriet much. Can Harriet win back her friends or is she doomed to be considered an outsider, a rejected writer and forgotten spy?

When she misplaces her notebook and it falls into the wrong hands, Harriet knows she is going to have a lot of explaining to do as good and bad private thoughts about her closest friends were written.

Harriet has a secret notebook filled with observations about her parents, friends, and neighbors.

Meet Harriet M. Welsch -- one of the most unforgettable, funniest characters in children's literature. Harriet is a girl with only one ambition in life: to be a spy. She works hard at it -- filling her secret notebook with observations about her parents, friends, and neighbors. But when her classmates find her notebook and read her mean comments about them, Harriet finds herself shunned by everyone. How can she put her spying talents to good use and make her friends like her again?

Juvenile Fiction. Mystery. Harriet wants to be a writer, so she writes down in her notebook everything she sees and hears on her daily "spy route." She innocently piles up details about her friends and neighbors. All is well until her notebook is discovered by her classmates and read aloud, and Harriet must deal with the consequences of her spying. In this reading Anne Bobby is especially adept at maintaining Harriet's kid voice, even though the novel is not told in the first person. She switches voices well, especially among the kids, so the readers can keep them straight. Beyond that, she keeps the pace of her reading moving along smoothly. P.B.J. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine. 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?

Eavesdropping to get the scoop on her friends and classmates, Harriet Welsch, a self-proclaimed spy, keeps a record of the school's scandals and drama by writing it all down in her notebook. However, when she loses track of her notebook, resulting in a very embarrassing public reading in front of the entire class, Harriet is forced to find a way to win back her friends' trust.

Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge. The discovery of Harriet's secret journal, concerning the personalities and activities of her schoolmates and neighbors, causes pandemonium.

Harriet the Spy, a sixth grader who lives on Manhattan's upper east side, has two loves-her nursemaid, and her notebook packe full of insights on the people in her life. Through her own ingenuity and with the help of her parents and teachers, she becomes a great writer.

When I grow up I'm going to find out everything about everybody and put it ll in a book. So writes Harried M. Welsch, who is determined to grow up to be a famous author. In the meantime, she practices by following a regular spy route each day and writing down everything she sees in her secret notebook. Then one morning, Harriet's life is turned upside down. Her classmates find her spy notebook and read it out loud! Harriet's in big trouble. The other sixth-graders are stealing her tomato sndwiches, forming a spy-catcher club, and writing notes of their own -- all about Harriet! (taken from Book.)

Eleven-year-old Harriet, decides that the best way to prepare for being an author some day is to write down everything she sees in her neighborhood 'spy' route. Trouble begins when her classmates confiscate her notebook and read what she has written about them.

Determined to be a writer, Harriet, a fifth grader, fills her secret notebook with remarks about everyone she knows until her classmates discover what she's been doing. Grades 5-6.

Harriet writes down everything about everyone, even her friends, and when her notebook gets lost and ends up in the wrong hands, she must find a way to put her life and her friendships back together.

Harriet, the spy, keeps a notebook filled with all kinds of information about friends and relatives. When it is found by her schoolmates they swiftly retaliate - -in often hillarious ways.

Harriet spies on her friends and keeps a notebook on them which she loses.

Eleven-year-old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer, and keeps a secret notebook.

Harriet the Spy lives in a comfortable brownstone in Manhattan. She is an only child who doesn't like many of her classmates. Most of all, Harriet loves her nursemaid, Ole Golly...and a secret notebook .

A groundbreaking book in its unflinchingly honest portrayal of childhood dilemmas, "Harriet the Spy" remains one of the most acclaimed children's novels ever written.

Harriet keeps a notebook full of her comments on her friends, classmates, and other people, but when she loses the notebook and her friends read what she has written about them, she has to find a way to put her life and friendships back together. [from jacket].

Harriet's classmates find her spy notebook and read it out loud! Harriet's in big trouble. The other sixth graders are stealing her tomato sandwiches, forming a spy catcher club, and writing notes of their own-all about Harriet!

Suggested for ages 10 and up.Now a motion picture

Harriet is determined to grow up to be a famous author.

This special 50th Anniversary Edition of the classic and ground-breaking coming-of-age novel, Harriet the Spy, includes tributes by Judy Blume, Meg Cabot, Lois Lowry, Rebecca Stead, and many more, as well as a map of Harriet's New York City neighborhood and spy route and original author/editor correspondence.

Harriet, would-be writer and avid observer of life, records everything she sees and hears. But what is she to do after her treasured notebook falls into the wrong hands?

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.".

Harriet jots down her thoughts about people, places and things in preparation for a writing career. She has many problems when her classmates discover the notes.

Harriet's secret notes about her parents, her classmates and her neighbors get her into trouble.

Harriet the Spy has a secret notebook which 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.

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