By Louise Fitzhough Harriet the Spy Presentation

Brief Summary Harriet Welch always wrote in her notebook because she wanted to be a writer. She played a game with her friends after school once. She was running and dropped her notebook, and all of her friends picked up the notebook and saw the mean things she wrote about them. Her nannie, Ole Golly, got fired and wrote a letter to Harriet giving advice. From that letter Harriet learns to grow up.

Theme Never put your work before your friends. In the book Harriet kept writing mean things about her friends. Se did not think about what could happen if she lost the book or it could end up in the wrong hands. As soon as her friends found the book, her life started to fall apart.

Changes in the Main Character She started writing in the notebook less. She stopped writing mean things about people. Harriet was really obnoxious at the beginning of the book, and at the end she had more respect for her family and her friends.

Lessons Learned by Harriet She learned that she needed to make up with her friends or she was going to lose her friends forever. She learned to focus more on her friends’ feelings and less on her notebook.

Lessons Learned by the Reader That sometimes lying is ok, as long as it's a nice lie. If someone is writing things about you, you shouldn't be mean to them because if you do something you are just making another wrong. To keep thoughts in your head, and you have to grow up sooner or later.

The End :) By D'aria, Anne Elise, Rhianna, and Paul