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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Since 1974, Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy has been a hit in libraries. Our heroine is serious and uncute, an obsessive notebook-keeper and a solitary sneak. The book consists chiefly of Harriet M. Welsh and what she thinks. The Nickelodeon film, however, consists chiefly of Harriet M. Welsh (the very…

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