Eleven-year-old Sport Rocque is living a happy life, keeping his father's absentmindedness under control and managing the family budget. When Kate,...
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Apr 13, 2009
Shannon
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I read Harriet the Spy and The Long Secret in grade school and it was only a couple years ago that I discovered there was this other book, Sport. I was excited because I'd liked Sport in Harriet the Spy and was looking forward to reading more about him. Sport reminded me of myself because I was also the only child of a single parent and I took on a lot of worry and responsibility about money. But when I finally managed to lay hands on a copy, I was disappointed. Her writing wasn't nearly so pith
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Oct 27, 2007
John
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I understand the publisher rejected this book, sending it back to Fitzhugh with substantial changes; she put it aside, and there it sat until she died. Published after her death to cash in on Harriet's popularity; the original decision not to publish was correct. Harriet makes a couple of cameo appearances (one with Janie), but otherwise has no part in the story at all.
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Aug 13, 2009
Lars
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Mind-blowing. On the first page, Sport's (hated, and justly so) mother tells him, 'You've got a goddamned literal mind.' Such a shot across the bow is Fitzhugh's warning that this will not be your standard middle-school fare. It put me in mind of Susan Patron's dropping in 'scrotum' on page one of 'The Higher Power of Lucky' and all the fuss that caused. Come to think of it, Lucky Trimble owes a debt to Harriet Welch; she's even also a spy. 'Sport' is a sequel to 'Harriet the Spy' and sent
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Sep 20, 2009
Jared
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Sport is my favorite of Louise Fitzhugh's books. Sport (really Simon) and his poor writer father live in a dump of an apartment; Sport's mother (divorced from his father) is wealthy and spoiled. Sport's mother's father dies, precipitating his mother to attempt to kidnap him.
The characters are fun, though not all that deep (but the book is for children, after all).
The characters are fun, though not all that deep (but the book is for children, after all).
Aug 25, 2010
Lucy-my-control
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Lucy Longstocking review http://www.wcl.govt.nz/blogs/kids/index....
Harriet only plays a guest role in the third book which is set back in New York. Sport focuses on Harriet’s friend Simon who is nicknamed Sport, and lives with his really nice but really hopeless Dad. There is not so much mystery in this one, but a lot of action. Poor Sport is really put through the wringer as his evil mother (no, not evil stepmother – just plain old evil mother) tries to gain custody of him so she c More...
Harriet only plays a guest role in the third book which is set back in New York. Sport focuses on Harriet’s friend Simon who is nicknamed Sport, and lives with his really nice but really hopeless Dad. There is not so much mystery in this one, but a lot of action. Poor Sport is really put through the wringer as his evil mother (no, not evil stepmother – just plain old evil mother) tries to gain custody of him so she c More...
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Sep 04, 2011
I like the style of writing. It allows me to continue to read - even if a story that is sometimes predictable. I misses the books growing up and have always (and now have) wanted to read them!
Sep 04, 2007
Leslie
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This book made me shout so with laughter that my mother came running to see if I was alright. I read it the summer after high school when I was stuck home with a broken leg, and I must admit I don't remember the plot all that clearly. But it has to do with Sport, one of the two best friends of Harriet the Spy, the son of a starving writer who tries to balance his dad's impracticality by learning to keep the books and cook the vegetables (all before turning 10, I believe). Harriet is quite a shar
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Jul 04, 2009
Joy
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Touching story of a child caught in a custody battle when he unexpectedly inherits his grandfather's fortune.
May 04, 2010
Karen
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I listened to this. I am a fan of Harriet the Spy and this is about her friend Sport.
Jul 31, 2009
Hannah
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although i have never read this it seems good because the others are so good.
Feb 09, 2009
Caroline
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Any book featuring my hero Harriet M. Welsch earns at least 4 stars.
Nov 06, 2007
Vaughan
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I must have read this as a kid, I know I read HARRIET THE SPY, then read it in 2004 and was blown away and probably got more out of it as a 38 year old than an 8 year old. A true classic. Like The Chocolate War, it's head and shoulders above most of the competition. Deals with some tough issues--is Sport's dad an alcoholic? In a very real, non-dogmatic and ovbious way, which is my beef about quite a bit of the children's and YA stuff that I read today--everything is spelled out in big bold lette
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Mar 10, 2011
Warnie B.
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This book actually deals with some rough stuff--Sport's family life? Kinda sucks. REALLY kinda sucks. A lot of folks seem to have disliked this one greatly, but I enjoyed it. No, not as much as I did Harriet the Spy and The Long Secret (the main thing is, it's just a more serious story--much less general hilarity, though there are some funny bits as well), but I still think it's a good story and I really liked that Sport got a book of his own--I always really liked him in Harriet the Spy.
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Sep 20, 2007
Jackie "the Librarian"
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The story of Harriet the spy's friend Sport, whose poor writer dad inherits money, and suddenly they have all kinds of money where before they ate a lot of baked beans. Now, Sport is living at the Plaza and watching out for kidnappers. I think. It's been a long while since I read this.
Not the greatness that is Harriet the Spy - this is just a fun kids's book.
Not the greatness that is Harriet the Spy - this is just a fun kids's book.
Apr 17, 2008
Dorothy
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Been a really long time since I've even seen this one hanging around bookstores or libraries. (Guess nobody was interested in Fitzhugh's books about boys.) But the kidnapping and being locked in his room subplot was great. I loved reading and re-reading this one, back in the day.
Jul 27, 2009
Audrey
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This book was way different then I expected. But different is good. It was really good- it had lots of excitement, the characters were well developed, it had a good ending...i would really recommend this book.
Sep 07, 2011
Maria
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My dad is a crazy writer and my mother is an even crazier rich, ridiculously acting woman. My best friend is Harriet, and she spends all her time writing in notebooks.
Again, what more can I say?
Again, what more can I say?
Sep 11, 2008
Rae
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A mediocre story about one of Harriet the Spy's friends. Not near as fun as the original spy book or The Long Secret.
Jan 25, 2011
Mad
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I have no idea why I like this more than Harriet the Spy, but this is just such a great book.
Nov 08, 2008
this seems cool i wonder if harriet will tell everything that is in her journal about sport?
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