Harriet the Spy, Double Agent - (Harriet the Spy Adventures (Dell Yearling Book)) by Louise Fitzhugh & Maya Gold (Paperback)

About the Book

While spying on her New York City neighborhood with new friend Annie, twelve-year-old Harriet decides that the only way to learn Annie's many secrets is to spy on her, as well.

Book Synopsis

Harriet is impressed to learn that the girl she has befriended, now called Annie Smith, is the person who not only created three names-Rosarita Sauvage, Yolanda Montezuma, and Zoe Carpaccio-but also three distinct personalities to match. This girl has potential. Being a spy has always been rather solitary, so Harriet is glad to have a new friend and spy partner. But then Harriet realizes that Annie reveals very little about herself, and indeed, is not telling the truth about where she goes and who she meets on the weekend. Sport says he's in love with the girl, but Annie lets drop she's in love with an older man. Harriet can't understand anything at all about this thing called love-even when she asks Ole Golly for advice, she still wonders. But as Harriet unravels Annie's mystery, she comes to appreciate the many different kinds of love there are.

Praise for Harriet the Spy(R) and Her Friends

Harriet the Spy(R)

"Harriet is . . . wholly relatable whether you're eleven or several times that age."--EW.com

Harriet Spies Again
By Louise Fitzhugh and Helen Ericson
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Novel

"Ericson has perfectly captured the voice and pacing of Fitzhugh's original novel in a seamless rendering of a fresh, enjoyable story for today's readers." --School Library Journal

Harriet the Spy, Double Agent
By Louise Fitzhugh and Maya Gold

"Harriet the Spy is back, and Gold does a credible job of maintaining the special character and her crusty charm." --Booklist

The Long Secret

[STAR] "Written with subtlety, compassion, and [Louise Fitzhugh's] remarkable ability to see inside the minds of children." --School Library Journal, Starred

Sport

[STAR] "A worthy successor to Harriet the Spy--and that is high tribute." --Booklist, Starred

Review Quotes

"As Harriet Welsch unravels mysteries about Annie, she comes to embrace many kinds of different love--of parents, of friends, of herself, and others who will come into and out of her life."--BookLoons

About the Author

Maya Gold, like Annie Smith, is a woman of many identities. In some of her other lives, she has been an award-winning screenwriter, novelist, editor, and occasional planter of Douglas firs. But her favorite role is that of proud mother to ten-year-old author and deep-dyed Harriet fan Sophia M. Gold. They live in New York.

Louise Fitzhugh (1928-1974) was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She attended Bard College, studied art in Italy and France, and continued her studies in New York at the Art Students League and at Cooper Union. Her books Harriet the Spy, The Long Secret, and Sport have been acclaimed as milestones of children's literature. These classics delight readers year after year.