An 11-year-old girl (who dresses like a boy) practices for a career in espionage by observing people on her "spy route" and writing her about them in her notebook. The New York Times said the 1964 novel introduced a "new realism" into children's literature, and it's been banned from some school libraries because the main character "sets a bad example." The lesbian author came from a wealthy, disfunctional Southern family and died at 46 of a brain aneurism. This is Louise Fitzhugh and her most famous book is "Harriet the Spy."
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