Harriet the Spy. Louise Fitzhugh

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      First published in the USA by Harper and Row 1964

      First published in Great Britain by Collins 1980

      This edition published by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2016

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      Text copyright © Louise Fitzhugh 1968

      Illustrations by Louise Fitzhugh

      Cover illustration © Lizzy Stewart 2016

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      Source ISBN: 9780007333868

      Ebook Edition © 2016 ISBN: 9780007393121

      Version: 2016-04-19

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Book One

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Book Two

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Book Three

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Postscript by Wendy Cooling

       About the Author

       Collins Modern Classics

       About the Publisher

      

       Chapter One

      HARRIET WAS TRYING to explain to Sport how to play Town. “See, first you make up the name of the town. Then you write down the names of all the people who live in it. You can’t have too many or it gets too hard. I usually have twenty-five.”

      “Ummmm.” Sport was tossing a football in the air. They were in the courtyard of Harriet’s house on East Eighty-seventh Street in Manhattan.

      “Then when you know who lives there, you make up what they do. For instance, Mr 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.

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