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| Author: | Louise Fitzhugh |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 12 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | Fiction, girl heroine |
| Year of publication: | 1964 |
My daughter initially resisted reading this book because the movie made such an awful impression on her. But she really enjoyed this story of a girl who "wants to know EVERYTHING" and gets into deep trouble for writing down what she knows. | |
Interesting slice-of-life of mostly upper-middle class children at school and play in Manhattan in the nineteen-fifties. The sequel, Harriet the Spy: The Long Secret gets into all sorts of complicated topics such as menstruation, abusive-parenting, and the public expression of religious beliefs that my daughter did not find as compelling. | |
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