Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh (Paperback)

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Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh

Harriet M. Welsch is a spy.

In her secret blue notebook, eleven-year-old Harriet writes down everything—and she means everything. She observes her neighbors on her sophisticated Upper East Side "spy route," noting the eccentricities of the people around her with a brutally honest, often biting perspective. To Harriet, these notes are just practice for her future career as a famous writer.

But Harriet’s world is turned upside down when her nanny and mentor, Ole Golly, leaves to get married, and her private notebook falls into the hands of her classmates. Before she can stop them, her friends read the "always truthful, sometimes awful" things she has written about each of them.

Suddenly, the spy becomes the target. Ostracized by her peers and forming the subject of the "Spy Catcher Club," Harriet must learn a hard lesson about the power of words: they can be used to observe the world, but they can also cut deep enough to destroy the things she cares about most.