“Now, listen, Sport, you never did this and it’s fun. “Don’tcha wanta play football?” Sport asked. Charles Hanley runs the filling station on the corner.” Harriet spoke thoughtfully as she squatted next to the big tree, bending so low over her notebook that her long straight hair touched the edges. “Then when you know who lives there, you make up what they do. They were in the courtyard of Harriet’s house on East Eighty-seventh Street in Manhattan. “Ummmm.” Sport was tossing a football in the air. You can’t have too many or it gets too hard. Then you write down the names of all the people who live in it. “See, first you make up the name of the town. Harriet was trying to explain to Sport how to play Town. I love the story of Harriet so much I feel as if I lived it.” -Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom and The Corrections “I don’t know of a better novel about the costs and rewards of being a truth teller, nor of any book that made more readers of my generation want to become fiction writers. “ Harriet the Spy is a book about the emergence of a writer.” -Rebecca Stead, author of When You Reach Me and Liar & Spy

She reflected what we had been, what we remember of our most secret selves, and what we miss most.” -Lois Lowry, author of the Giver quartet “ Harriet the Spy was one of my favorite books.” -Meg Cabot, author of the Princess Diaries series “Louise Fitzhugh remembered what it was like to grow up and wasn’t afraid to write about it.” -Judy Blume, author of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. “If Harriet the Spy was nothing else, it was the most bracingly convincing book I had ever read.” -Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West “We think she’s delicious, but that’s probably because she hasn’t included us in her spy route-yet.” - The New York Times Book Review “Harriet is … wholly relatable whether you’re eleven or several times that age.” -EW.com

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