"Harriet the Spy" is about a girl named Harriet who writes down her observations about everyone she comes in contact with in her spy notebook. When her friends find her notebook they are angry because she had written mean things about them. I would use this in a fourth or fifth grade classroom to di...
This book is about Harriet who spy's on a whole town of people and writes her thoughts in a notebook. Harriet's notebook comes up in the hands of others and everyone finds out what Harriet truly thinks about them . This book will be best used in upper elementary. It is important to inform students t...
SOMETIMES I CAN'T STAND SPORT, WITH HIS WORRYING ALL THE TIME AND FUSSING OVER HIS FATHER, SOMETIMES HE'S LIKE A LITTLE OLD WOMAN. -Chapter 10, from Harriet's Spy Notebook Harriet wrote that about one of her best friends. Granted, she never expected him, or anyone else to read it, but still. I c...
This book would be a great introduction into bullying or saying things and learning that once they are said, you cannot erase them. Also, this classic is a great character builder because it teaches children about apologizing to people and making it right with them. Another great way to use this boo...
What a wonderful book! Inspired by the fiftieth anniversary, I decided to revisit the movie of this, which I loved as a kid and which permanently spoiled my handwriting when I taught myself to write like Harriet. I've never read this book before now, though, and I have the strangest feeling: on one ...
""Listen to this," Ole Golly said and got that quote look on her face.... "What does that mean?" Harriet asked after she had been quiet a minute. "What do you think it means?" "Well, maybe if you love everything... then... then - I guess you'll know everything... then.... seems like... you love ev...
This isn’t a great children’s book. This is a great book whose protagonist happens to be very young.This is a book that manages to be shocking in spite of the absence of sex, drugs, and violence. Harriet isn’t forced to kick arse in a fight to the death, or struggle to feed her family. On the contra...
An odd book really. I’m surprised I never encountered Harriet as a kid. I know I would have loved it. It was just the kind of thing I read back then. This is a book that operates on two levels really. On one hand it’s just what the dust jacket says – the story of a curious and precocious ...
7/15/12 ** I'm still trying to figure out how to rate this book. Perhaps by the time I'm done typing here, I'll have "written my way into" the rating.First of all, let me say that I'm having a difficult time believing that I'd never read this classic before - it's two years older than I am. Lots of...
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