Author and Illustrator: Louise Fitzhugh
Title: Harriet the Spy
Readability Score: Lexile: 760L, DRA: 50, Grade Level Equivalent: 6.2, Guided Reading: T
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Comedy Humor
Theme: Honesty, Adolescence, School Life, Understanding Self and others, Manners and Conduct, Journal Writing
Primary and Secondary Characters: Harriet, Sport, Ole Golly, Mom, Dad
Awards/ Date of Publication: 1964
Publishing Company: Dell Yearling - Random House Children's Books
ISBN: 0-440-41679-5
Summary: Harriet Welsch is a diligent young writer, and thinks of herself as a spy. She spies on her neighbors and her friends, and Harriet takes brutally honest "notes" on anyone she sees. One day Harriet looses her notebook, and it turns up in the wrong hands.
Classroom Teaching Ideas:
1. Literature Response/Journal Writing
2. Story elements: plot, character and setting
3. Conflict and resolution
4. Character Traits
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