Harriet the Spy (Lions)

Children's Books

LOUISE FITZHUGH

Mysteries & Detectives

Collins

Harriet the Spy

Literature & Fiction

Armada

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.

Teen & Young Adult

HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks; New Ed edition (5 Jan. 2004)

Harriet has left New York for the summer, but she still finds enough spying to keep her busy. In fact, a mysterious note-leaver is running loose in Water Mill, and the secret Harriet uncovers is going to surprise everyone.

The Long Secret

Harpercollins

Trophy Pr

In the world of children's literature, Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy and The Long Secret are widely recognized as epoch-making.  They have been received by young readers, year after year, with excitement and love.  The new Fitzhugh novel shares the vigorous sense of comedy and the unflinching fidelity to the real world that distinguished her earlier books.  Many readers will feel, however, that Nobody's Family Is Going to Change is even finer than its predecessors. Willie, seven years old, wants to dance.  Emma, his older sister, wants to be a lawyer.  Is there something wrong with them?  Or is there something wrong with their parents, whose dreams for their children, the ordinary dreams of New York's black middle class, have little to do with what the children want?  For Willie won't stop dreaming of the day he will dance with his uncle Dipsey on Broadway, and Emma is determined that someday she will address a courtroom.  In this novel, the work of a matchless storyteller , Emma finds an answer for children with families that will not change.

Nobody's Family Is Going to Change (M-Books)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Nelson Thornes Ltd

Harriet M. Welsch has just received the best news of her eleventh year—Ole Golly is coming back! Harriet can still remember how sad she was when her beloved nanny married George Waldenstein and moved away. But the circumstances of Ole Golly’s return remain unclear. Where is George Waldenstein? With Mr. and Mrs. Welsch living in France for three months, Sport confiding that he has a crush on a girl at school, and the arrival of a mysterious new neighbor, who’s going to require a whole lot of spying, Harriet already has her hands full. Then she overhears Ole Golly saying she’s innocent—but innocent of what? Harriet the Spy is on the case and ready to help Ole Golly in any way she can.

Harriet Spies Again (Companion to Harriet the Spy)

Helen Ericson

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

The humorous adventures of an eleven year old boy by the author of Harriet The Spy.

Sport

Dell Pub. Co.]

Long Secret

Gollancz

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