Children's Classic: Harriet the Spy
Title: Harriet the Spy Author: Louise Fitzhugh; read by Anne Bobby Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio, 2003. Originally published by Harper & Row, 1964. 298 pages. Source: Library Digital resources Awards: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1966) , Oklahoma Sequoyah Award (1967) Publisher's Summary: Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she’s written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together?
My Review: Somehow I was never tempted to read this as a kid. Since lately I've been going back and picking up some classics I missed, when I saw this available as an audio book download through my library, I d...