false 232576 26 Ages 8-12. Thirty-two years before it was made into a movie, <i>Harriet the Spy</i> 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. <I>School Library Journal</I> 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 <I>The Chicago Tribune</I> raved, "brilliantly written... a superb portrait of an extraordinary child." 1429939 1964 Harriet the Spy total:6049|5:2344|4:2046|3:1318|2:269|1:72| 6049 24468 6868 497 4 5 false false Tue Jul 03 06:02:26 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 06:09:04 -0700 2007
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Must I go...more...]]> 1 0 false true Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 19:33:36 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 19:45:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 21 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Tue Apr 21 02:16:51 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 02:18:11 -0700 2009 10+ Harriet, a young girl, wants to be a writer. So she keeps a journal in which she writes all kinds of nasty (but true) things about her friends and everyone she knows. When they get hold of the journal, she is ostracized. Eventually, her parents push her to refocus her energy on somet...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 23:08:35 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 05:26:32 -0700 2009 "Harriet the Spy" is about class, loss, and being true to one's own self. Harriet M. Welch (the M. was her own invention) is the daughter of rather well-to-do socialites. Raised by her nurse Ole Golly until the ripe old age of eleven, Harriet must come to terms with Ole Golly's eventual ab...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1976 Mon Apr 13 18:04:26 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 18:18:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 17:51:39 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 18:01:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 27 19:20:31 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 09:14:19 -0700 2009 more...]]>