Harriet the Spy is about an 11 y/o girl who wants to be a writer and, to this end, keeps a notebook with her observations about the world about her at large. Her classmates get a hold of her book and start reading what she’s written about them, which gets her into trouble with them, her teachers, and her parents.
(Harriet’s observations about her classmates are - at the beginning - from the perspective of a privileged and clueless little girl - for example, she comments about how fussy one of her friends is, without realizing that he shoulders a lot of responsibility for a young boy. She develops more empathy once she gets into trouble over her notebook.)
One exercise I liked from the book was when Harriet sat in a booth at a local cafe and listened in to the conversation of the people in the booth behind her and tried to guess what they looked like.
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(Harriet’s observations about her classmates are - at the beginning - from the perspective of a privileged and clueless little girl - for example, she comments about how fussy one of her friends is, without realizing that he shoulders a lot of responsibility for a young boy. She develops more empathy once she gets into trouble over her notebook.)
One exercise I liked from the book was when Harriet sat in a booth at a local cafe and listened in to the conversation of the people in the booth behind her and tried to guess what they looked like.