![]() After her parents find out what's happened, Harriet receives a final, crushing blow. ![]() After a game in the park when her notebook is knocked out of her hands and read by her classmates, Harriet's deepest thoughts are revealed and she is quickly ostracised by all her classmates even the boy with the Purple Socks who form the Spycatcher's Club to punish her. Harriet's downfall is that she also writes down her thoughts about people she actually knows. ![]() She writes brutally warts-and-all notes on them all. Climbing on milk crates and hoisting herself up dumbwaiters, Harriet observes the rich lady who never gets out of bed the man with twenty-five cats and the Italian family who runs a grocery store. After school every day, she takes her notebook and proceeds through her spy route. Sixth-grader Harriet attends school on the New York's Upper East Side along with her two best pals, Sport, the jock, and Janie, the mad scientist. ![]() First published by HarperCollinsUS in 1964, this classic children’s novel has sold over 4 million copies and was awarded the New York Times Outstanding Book Award. ![]()
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