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Book Reviews of Harriet the Spy
Book Review: Harriet The Spy
Summary: 4 Stars
It is about a 9year old spy.She has a route of peoples houses to spy on.She has a notebook thats what she writes about people ,and her friends.Then her friends read it and team up.So there really really mad at her.They made a club and there going to do someing,to her and she wants to know.She also lives in aparments with her mom and dad.Thats what its about.The reason I like it is it had interesting details. one thing I didn't like was it was so long.Book Review: Harriet and the Night-Time Sky
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was ten years old, my teacher was Mrs Stanley. Mrs Stanley (like all great teachers) refused to teach us what she was told to teach us. Instead she taught us what she felt we ought to know. One of the things she felt we ought to know was "Harriet the Spy."
Harriet the Spy is Harriet M. Welsh, a little girl who keeps a notebook in which she writes thoughts and observations about her friends and the people around her. She also has a spy route made up of six or seven houses she passes on the way to and from school each day. She writes about the houses on her spy route in the notebook each day also.
As a kid, you can understand the desire to peer in windows and you can share Harriet's frustration with grown-ups, what they say, what they don't say, all that. As a kid, you share the sense of isolation visited upon Harriet when her notebook falls out of her bag and is read by all the people in her class. You also share the good times and the laughs, of which there are many, with her. When you are a kid, you read "Harriet the Spy" and it's the story of a little girl whose world falls apart for a little while and then appears to be on the mend.
Years later, I read the book again (sort of glimpsed through half-closed eyes, thinking: this will not be as good as I remembered). You know what? It is every bit as good reading the book as a (so-called) adult as it was reading the book as a kid. Since then I get through "Harriet the Spy" at least once a year. It has become a kind of tradition with me. My little girl is even named after her.
"Harriet the Spy" is a golden classic. There are not many books like this. The five star rule goes out of the window. Other books you can measure with stars. Harriet the Spy is like the night-time sky. There are too many stars to count.
Book Review: Harriet the Spy
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a story about a girl named Harriet who goes to a private middle school. One day Harriet decides to keep a journal and become a spy. She goes around town recording her opinions about everyone and everything she sees. Will her secrets be exposed? What will happen to Harriet? Read the book to find out.
I would recommend this book for children who enjoy reading about secrets being exposed and friendship.
In acting like a spy, she writes down things she observes about people. For example, she says a guy with purple socks is boring. Another example from her journal is when she says if Marian Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady dictator. One important secret she found out was that her friend was popular with everybody only because they liked her mother's lemonade.
Harriet's secrets get her in trouble with her classmates, but by telling the truth she wins her friends back.
I hope you buy this book and read about Harriet's problems and solutions.
Book Review: Harriet the Spy
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is a pretty good book. Although it would have been a lot better if I was in the fifth grade but since I'm not it seemed very little kiddish. The actual story was pretty interesting beside the fact that little kids these days don't worry about who did what and when. They care mostly about having fun and growing up with their friends.Book Review: Harriet the Spy sparkles
Summary: 5 Stars
I first knew about Harriet the Spy in 5th grade when the movie came out. I was entranced, enthralled and totally taken with such a moving film (no wonder it's called "One of the best children's movies ever!"), and I bought the book later that week - along with Fitzhugh's sequel The Long Secret. I became a "child spy" like Harriet because I found her lifestyle amazing, and Louise Fitzhugh is an excellent writer. Harriet the Spy sparkles as one of literature's best children's novels!