{"product_id":"harriet-the-spy-double-agent-isbn-9780440416913","title":"Harriet the Spy, Double Agent","description":"\u003cb\u003eJoin Harriet the Spy on a brand-new mystery that's about more than spying—this follow up to the beloved classic delves into the questions all kids have about love and friendship. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarriet, the young spy, becomes intrigued by Annie Smith, a master of disguise and deception, who holds hidden truths behind her enigmatic persona. This girl definitely has potential! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeing 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 can't always be trusted. And to make things more complicated, Sport says he’s in love with Annie. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarriet 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.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for \u003c\/i\u003eHarriet the Spy®\u003ci\u003e and Her Friends\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003eHarriet the Spy\u003c\/u\u003e®\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Harriet is . . . wholly relatable whether you’re eleven or several times that age.”—\u003cb\u003eEW.com \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003eHarriet Spies Again\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Louise Fitzhugh and Helen Ericson\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003eHarriet the Spy, Double Agent\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Louise Fitzhugh and Maya Gold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Harriet the Spy is back, and Gold does a credible job of maintaining the special character and her crusty charm.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe Long Secret\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[\u003cb\u003eSTAR\u003c\/b\u003e] “Written with subtlety, compassion, and [Louise Fitzhugh’s] remarkable ability to see inside the minds of children.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal,\u003c\/i\u003e Starred\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003eSport\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e[\u003cb\u003eSTAR\u003c\/b\u003e] “A worthy successor to \u003ci\u003eHarriet the Spy\u003c\/i\u003e—and that is high tribute.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist,\u003c\/i\u003e Starred\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaya Gold\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouise Fitzhugh\u003c\/b\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eHarriet the Spy,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Long Secret,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSport\u003c\/i\u003e have been acclaimed as milestones of children’s literature. These classics delight readers year after year.CHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarriet M. Welsch took out the flashlight that always hung from her spy belt, snapped off the overhead light, and stepped into the bathtub. It was precisely 9:29 p.m. It felt strange to stand in the tub fully dressed (except for her sneakers, which would not do), but spies were accustomed to doing strange things. Harriet peered through the narrow exhaust window, set over a twin row of black and white checkered tiles, and hoped that her contact, the girl with four names, understood the importance of promptness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA faint glow of peach-tinted streetlight shone through the pane. Harriet stared over the treetops of East Eighty-seventh Street at the carved marble cornices on the south side of the street. It was snowing again, and a light stripe of powder lined every bare twig. She wished they'd agreed on an earlier time. Nine-thirty was dangerously close to her bedtime, when one of her parents might venture up to the third floor to bid her a distracted goodnight. Revise, she informed herself. First thing tomorrow. She narrowed her eyes, squinting into the snowfall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA circle of light snapped on in a dark window across the street. Could that be it? The angle looked lower than Harriet had expected. She held her breath as the new light snapped off and on twice more. The signal!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarriet lifted her flashlight and clicked her switch in the same pattern. A grin spread across her face. It works, she thought, already starting to dream up a message code far more complex than a simple flash-three for \"I'm here.\" Didn't sailors have some kind of code alphabet, like those colorful flags that flapped over Long Island yacht clubs and showed up on beach towels? Semaphore, that was the name for it. She and the girl with four names could invent an East Eighty-seventh Street semaphore, with different flashlight patterns for every letter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe phone rang in the hall. Harriet jumped from the tub, singing out, \"It's for me!\" before her mother could pick up downstairs. She skidded into the hallway and grabbed the receiver, tucking it into her shoulder as she pulled the long cord through her bedroom door. \"It worked!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What worked?\" The voice was a boy's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sport?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Of course. What worked?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nothing,\" said Harriet, hoping she sounded blase. \"I thought you were Annie.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh,\" said Sport. \"Annie.\" The crack in his voice, one note childlike and one newly husky, made him sound like a bad country singer. \"How can her real name be Annie Smith? Annie Smith.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"So?\" Harriet twisted the phone cord around her left thumb. She didn't approve of repeating oneself, aloud or in prose. Harriet was going to be a writer, and she knew that every word mattered. Her best friend, Sport, who dreamed about playing first base for the Mets, was not as precise. She had high hopes for Annie, however. The signal had flashed at exactly nine-thirty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnie had moved to their neighborhood back in September, under mysterious circumstances. The two-doctor couple across the street, Morris and Barbara Feigenbaum, who had houseplants and patients instead of children, had taken in Barbara's twelve-year-old niece. This new neighbor had introduced herself to Harriet as Rosarita Sauvage, to her moony-eyed schoolmate Sport as Yolanda Montezuma, and to others as Zoe Carpaccio. It had come as a shock to discover, a few days before at Thanksgiving dinner, that all three of these remarkable names belonged to the same girl, whose birth name was duller than toast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Annie herself had potential. The girl had created not one but three new identities, each with a personality to match. There was also the unanswered question of why she'd been expelled from Sport's school, and transferred to Harriet's, just a few weeks before Christmas vacation. She must have done something outrageous, thought Harriet, and I'm going to find out what it was. That might have been a tall order for some seventh graders, but Harriet M. Welsch was an experienced spy. Ever since she could print, she had taken extensive notes in a series of green composition books, which she kept locked in a trunk at the foot of her bed. \"A writer needs to know everything,\" her former nanny, Ole Golly, had said many times. \"It's all grist for the mill.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm not sure I can love a plain Annie,\" Sport sighed. \"She's such a Yolanda.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Get used to it,\" Harriet snapped, trying to hide her impatience. Falling out of love over a name seemed as flimsy as Sport's claim that he'd fallen in love with Yolanda's green shoes. Harriet wondered if Sport knew what love really meant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot that she was an expert on love. Ole Golly had sidestepped Harriet's questions in every phase of her courtship, estrangement, and joyous reunion with her husband, George Waldenstein, and Harriet's parents restricted themselves to tossing off the occasional \"Love you,\" as if prefacing it with an \"I\" would take too much of an effort. Maybe I ought to try spying on someone in love, Harriet thought, if it doesn't involve too much kissing. She disliked long kisses in movies, which always made her wonder what the two actors had eaten for dinner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Listen,\" she said, \"I'm on an assignment from Grenville. I'm walking plain Annie to school in the morning. If you'd like to meet us, arrive at the corner of East End by eight-twenty-three. Let's synchronize our watches.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarriet sighed. Sport had known her since preschool, and it drove her crazy when he didn't recognize everyday spy terminology. She felt this was part of his job as best friend. \"Make sure we both have the same time. What does your watch say?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nine-thirty-two,\" said Sport.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Two minutes slow. Fix it,\" said Harriet, and hung up. She liked to hang up without saying goodbye. It made her last words sound important. 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