Other editions of book Harriet the Spy

Read by Anne Bobby6 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.

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 CorrectionsFrom the Hardcover edition.

Harriet, the main character and extraordinary girl in this book, has a secret notebook which she fills with honest, cutting jottings about her parents, school classmates, and neighbors. Each day on her "spy route", she observes and jots down anything of interest to her. The trouble starts when Harriet's notebook is found by her schoolmates. Harriet's unexpected responses to her classmates' anger and retaliation are hilarious as well as touching. 298 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. 12th Dell Printing, August 1973 (c1964) (Yearling Books / A Yearling Book / A Dell Yearling Book)