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1) Sometimes you have to lie: the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh's masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation after generation of readers. Harriet is an erratic, unsentimental, and endearing prototype--someone very like the woman who dreamed her up, author and artist Louise Fitzhugh. Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in a wealthy home in segregated Memphis, and she escaped her cloistered world and made a beeline...
Author
Series
Harriet the spy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Harriet is a sixth grader who wants to be a writer and so spends part of every day "observing" and keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in her secret notebook.
Author
Series
Harriet the spy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While at the beach for the summer, Harriet tries to uncover the author of mysterious religious notes that appear all over town and which make her ponder her own beliefs, and Beth Ellen meets the mother she last saw when she was four years old.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1996
Language
English
Description
Harriet is probably the most accomplished 11-year-old spy. She dreams of being a writer and her nanny told her to start by writing down everything she sees. It's all in good fun, that is until her friends find her private writings. Now they don't like Harriet much. Can Harriet win back her friends or is she doomed to be considered an outsider, a rejected writer and forgotten spy?