Harriet the Spy

Share the timeless classic that kids will love to discover and adults will love to revisit! It's no secret that every day can be an adventure if you just look carefully enough… "Finding Harriet as a young writer in the mid-1960s was inspiring. It meant I wasn't the only one who wanted to tell stories about kids who were real."-JUDY BLUME "I don't know of a better novel. . . . I love the story of Harriet so much I feel as if I lived it."-JONATHAN FRANZEN A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIME • A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 100 GREAT CHILDREN'S BOOKS 100 YEARS SELECTION • NOW AN APPLE TV+ SERIES 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? "What the novel showed me as a child is that words have the power to hurt, but they can also heal."-Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot

Louise Fitzhugh (1928-1974) was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She attended Bard College, studied art in Italy and France, and continued her studies in New York at the Art Students League and at Cooper Union. Her books Harriet the Spy, The Long Secret, and Sport have been acclaimed as milestones of children's literature. These classics delight readers year after year.