Harriet the Spyby Louise Fitzhugh | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Chapter Books" |
| Pages: | 304 |
| Year of Publication: | 1964 |
| Date Read: | 04/21/2001 |
| Notes: | Harriet M. Welsh is an 11-year-old New Yorker who is determined to grow up to be a famous author. To prepare herself she practices by following a daily spy route and writing down everything she sees in her secret notebook. But her life is turned upside down when her classmates find her notebook and start writing notes of their own — about her. COMMENTS — Before Harriet the Spy, the vast majority of children’s books portrayed kids in well-adjusted families and acting like normal kids. After Louise Fitzhugh wrote Harriet, things began to change. Books began to be target toward young teens and became increasingly controversial — for example: Paul Zindel's The Pig Man (1968), Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War (1974). (We're not sure why books about abnormal kids are thought to be better.) |
| My Rating: | 5 |