Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Harriet the Spy
Book Review: read this now book review
Summary: 4 Stars
You will not be able to put this book down because the plot is so breathtaking. You will feel like you're in Harriet's position. Sometimes I felt that I was the character in the book.
Harriet was running to the river, and she dropped her notebook and she did not realize it. Her friends picked it up and started reading it. They saw the parts written about them. They formed a Non Spy Club and they pulled nasty pranks on Harriet. Even her best friend, Sport, was pulling the same nasty pranks as the rest of her friends. Harriet goes to a therapist person to try to get Harriet to stop writing in her notebook. The therapy works a little but she still manages to write in her notebook even though her mom hid it somewhere in her house. Harriet found it and wrote in it still.
Book Review: wicked good book
Summary: 5 Stars
skip the rental. buy the book. harriet the spy is a classic and its cynical herione, harriet m. welsch, is eternal. the book is dated (harriet wanders around sketchy neighborhoods in manhattan and is encouraged to do so by her eccentric nanny, ole golly, and has to ask when she wants to eat with her parents) and it has been banned at points, but i command you to read it anyway. harriet as you might imagine is a spy, because ole golly said that writing everything down would help her be a better writer. harriet is a smart, prickly eleven year only daughter of young distant parents. she is well to do, lives on the upper east side, and although she sees sad things and meets all sorts of people during her escapades she is too immature to understand her position in life. ole golly is basically her mother figure and reads a lot of philosophy books. she also quotes things at harriet, which mean something if you look into them, but to harriet they're nothing. anyway, harriet's notebook gets stolen and she is ostracized by her friends and misunderstood by the school and her parents. the fact that her only authority figure, ole golly, gets married to george waldenstein, doesn't help matters. harriet does eventually get her life back and gets more mature due to a letter from ole golly telling her to tell a white lie. her relationship with her parents improves a bit (the long secret is the sequel to this.)