by Louise Fitzhugh
The Classic Edition paperback.
Soon to be an animated series starring Golden Globe nominee Beanie Feldstein and Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch, it's no secret that Harriet the Spy is a timeless classic that kids will love!
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?
Recommended for young readers ages 8-12 years.
Includes a sneak peek at Harriet Spies Again at the end.
Softcover, 320 pages.
Published in the United States by Yearling, Random House Kids Books.
"What the novel showed me as a child is that words have the power to hurt, but they can also heal, and that it’s much better in the long run to use this power for good than for evil."—New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot
A New York Public Library's 100 Great Children's Books 100 Years selection
"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...that made more readers of my generation want to become fiction writers. I love the story of Harriet so much I feel as if I lived it.” — JONATHAN FRANZEN, author of Freedom and The Corrections
"Harriet the Spy bursts with life." — School Library Journal
"The characterizations are marvelously shrewd." — The Bulletin