Harriet the Spy
Fitzhugh, Louise / Sloan, Sam / Fitzhugh, Louise
Heroines in fiction come and go and most of them are soon forgotten. But not Harriet the Spy, 11-year-old whirlwind of precocity and single-minded purpose, who wants to be a famous writer and so to that end keeps a notebook in which she records with brutal honesty her impressions of the world around her. This is a brilliantly written, unsparingly realistic story a superb portrait of an extraordinary child.Harriet M. Welsch is one of the meatie...