Harriet the Spy

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Book Title: Harriet The Spy

Book Summary:  There once a girl that wanted to by a spy so she spied on her friends Sport and Janie and other people in her neighborhood.   She wrote everything down in her journal, the fact that Sport plays housekeeper has to fend for himself because his dad works odds hours.  Janie Is the crazy scientist that can never get her experiments to work.  Everything was perfect in her life until one day when her nanny decides to get married.  Everything started going wrong, she tried to keep it together but one day while playing outside with her friends her “spy journal” was found by another classmate and shared the stories with her classmates.  So as you can imagine things got ugly between her friends and classmates, Harriet instead of saying sorry she made things worse.  Her mother took her to see a psychiatrist and that person said to write toe Ole Golly and see what she would say about the situation that Harriet got if self into.  So Harriet decides to take Ole Golly’s advice and say sorry.  At the end of the book Harriet’s writing skills got her the classroom newspaper editor position and everything went back to being normal in Harriet’s life. 

APA Reference:  

Morehead, L. A. (1992). Harriet The Spy. New York, New York: Random House.

My Impressions:  I love the spies, and the idea of knowing everything.  The book is good; I found it hard to read because I saw the movie, granted I haven’t seen the movie since high school.  As with all book to movie pairs the book was different and I found myself liking the movie better.  It followed better and made more sense to me but that maybe because I watched the movie first. 

Professional Review:

Horn Book Guide starred Fall, 2001

The character of Harriet M. Welsch, aspiring writer and neighborhood spy, remains as original as she was when this novel was first published, helping to usher in a new age of modern realistic fiction. Though never out of print, the novel now has a different publisher, still containing Fitzhugh's own black-and-white illustrations, and stands as a testament to the author's unique creative vision

Citation:

Intermediate fiction. (2001, Fall). The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books, 12, 298. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/207555150?accountid=7113

Library Uses: This book is a good book for cause and effect.  To teach about bulling, that sometimes adults just don’t understand kids, and that being perfect isn’t everything. 

Book Title: Harriet The Spy

Book Summary:  There once a girl that wanted to by a spy so she spied on her friends Sport and Janie and other people in her neighborhood.   She wrote everything down in her journal, the fact that Sport plays housekeeper has to fend for himself because his dad works odds hours.  Janie Is the crazy scientist that can never get her experiments to work.  Everything was perfect in her life until one day when her nanny decides to get married.  Everything started going wrong, she tried to keep it together but one day while playing outside with her friends her “spy journal” was found by another classmate and shared the stories with her classmates.  So as you can imagine things got ugly between her friends and classmates, Harriet instead of saying sorry she made things worse.  Her mother took her to see a psychiatrist and that person said to write toe Ole Golly and see what she would say about the situation that Harriet got if self into.  So Harriet decides to take Ole Golly’s advice and say sorry.  At the end of the book Harriet’s writing skills got her the classroom newspaper editor position and everything went back to being normal in Harriet’s life. 

APA Reference:  My Impressions:

Morehead, L. A. (1992). Harriet The Spy. New York, New York: Random House.

My Impressions:  I love the spies, and the idea of knowing everything.  I have the book is good; I found it hard to read because I saw the movie, granted I haven’t seen the movie since high school.  As with all book to movie pairs the book was different and I found myself liking the movie better.  It followed better and made more sense to me but that maybe because I watched the movie first. 

Professional Review:

Horn Book Guide starred Fall, 2001

The character of Harriet M. Welsch, aspiring writer and neighborhood spy, remains as original as she was when this novel was first published, helping to usher in a new age of modern realistic fiction. Though never out of print, the novel now has a different publisher, still containing Fitzhugh's own black-and-white illustrations, and stands as a testament to the author's unique creative vision

Citation:

Intermediate fiction. (2001, Fall). The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books, 12, 298. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/207555150?accountid=7113

Library Uses: This book is a good book for cause and effect.  To teach about bulling, that sometimes adults just don’t understand kids, and that being perfect isn’t everything.