<![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Three months late, but I have to say thank you for this column in general and this article in particular. I loved everything about this book and it was a huge presence to my angry 12 year old self. I just looked up Suzuki Beane on abe books and people are asking 65 to TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS for it.

flemertown

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> In H th S, I remember being just as baffled as Harriet by Beth Ellen's absent mother because "she went to Biarritz every year." Being a dumb 12-yr-old, I assumed Biarritz was a mental institution.

Morningstar

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I missed commenting on this by several days, but I just wanted to say how much I love this series. Reminds of when I read just for fun, and did it constantly.

Toastgod

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @LisaMc: um i LOVED this book and read it one million times. god, i need to make a huge amazon order.

thereisalight

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I have, more than once, dressed up as Harriet the Spy for Hallowe'en.

monkeyseedo

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Oh, God, Louise Fitzhugh. These books were amazing - bits of them were intriguingly, unintelligibly American to a Yurpean but the characters were always recognisable and familiar. I would love to read them all again. I still think to myself from time to time 'Nobody's family is going to change'.

Dulcinea

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @crabbit: I remember reading "Nobody's Family..." I can't remember what happened in the end, but I remember that it left me feeling wistful.

titilayo

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I remember being a little disappointed with this book after the brilliance of "Harriet The Spy." But I was disappointed with my adolescence compared to my childhood as well. I think it was the passiveness of Beth Ellen and the bossiness of Harriet that left me un-engaged. Ironically, this dynamic mirrored my own relationship with one of my best friends. Anyone who loved Harriet will probably love "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. Six diverse kids create their own Ancient Egyptian world in a vacant lot in their neighborhood.
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LisaMc

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I adored this book too - although not as much as the original Harriet.
I have to say, one of the great joys of re-reading childhood favorites as an adult is that finally, things that sailed right over my head as a kid make sense. I had no idea at 10 years old that Harriet and Beth were from rather well-to-do families, or that Beth's mother was a flaky socialite. And of course, no clue that Bunny was gay.

OpheliaFrump

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @sonotcool: much as i loved this book, the gay undertones went straight over my head. i thought it was a book about religion.

Door

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Thank you for reminding me of this book.I had forgotten it and how much I loved this one and Harriet the Spy. I re-read Harriet over and over because it was the only book I read as a child about a little girl who grew up in Manhattan JUST LIKE ME!! Of course I did the whole spying on my friends thing, but never managed to make it inside any dumbwaiters. I loved Janie, she was my favorite.

cupcakery

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Who here read Christopher Pike books??? The Immortal was my fave!!!

Porcelina

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Of course Scoppettone and Kerr are still alive (I was this close to meeting M.E. Kerr!) so, ladies, call me!!!

sonotcool

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Also, this book is really a coded metaphor for what it's like to be a young lesbian, struggling with your emotional and sexual feelings and the realizations that that those feelings, that you, are "different." It's right before the first wave of major YA books on this topic. (the era of "kissing and dying") In just four years John Donovan publishes I'll Get There, It Better Be Worth The Trip, the first YA book to have an explicitly gay main character.

Those of you talking about Suzuki Beane...Fitzhugh only illustrated that, it was written by her close friend Sandra Scoppettone, who wrote some of the earliest LGBT books for YA audiences. Also in their circle of lesbian artists and bohemians was M.E. Kerr, another godmother of YA lit and also, of course, the author of Spring Fire, a book many consider to be the first lesbian pulp fiction novel.

(and, yes, I do study this stuff professionally. LOL.)

Now those were some Jezebels I would have loved getting a drink with!

sonotcool

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> i love this book so much. I still read it at least once a year. seriously. and i've always wondered what zeeney stood for.

vanka

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @crabbit: "Nobody's Family is Going to Change"

In the Alternate Universe According to Me:

1) Willie is understudying Savion Glover in "Stomp" and is one of the principal dancers in the touring company.

2) Emma made Law Review in law school and worked for the Justice Department as a prosecutor until the Bush Administration, when she went into private practice in a labor firm that sues plaintiff-side and was part of the team that kicked Enron's ass.

Her father shut up and dealt with it (although he left her law school graduation hurriedly afterward, even though her mother made him come see her walk).

Really.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I totally forgot ever reading this book. THANK YOU for featuring it, it reminds me how much I enjoyed it and how much I need to revisit it. Harriet the Spy and The Long Secret were so excellently nuanced and I forgot :(.

CrabbyPants

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @magiciannamedgob: The YA book in which the girl moves into the walls of her house is "The Woman in the Walls" by Patrice Kindl. Great book.

smoakes

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> When I read The Long Secret, I was certain I knew everything there was to know about menstruation, having read several of the Judy Blume books. So I was shocked when Janie rolled into town and explained what the blood was and why it was coming out; it had never occurred to me to wonder about that part (this was several years before my own started).

BTW, when looking around for Harriet sequels, TLS and Sport are great, but I'd avoid "Harriet Spies Again." It was written a few years ago by a totally different author and I found a glaring error on the FIRST PAGE that I caught at once without even having to check HtS (which admittedly I've read about a dozen times). So actually the rest of the book might be great; I stopped reading in disgust.

smoakes

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Thanks Lizzie, best feature ever!

ShoplifterOfTheWorld

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Ahhh, I'm so excited you guys wrote about this one that I have to post this before I actually read the piece.

annejumps

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Dang, "library use only"!

djdreilinger

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Now I know where I got my habit of ending everything with "CHECK ON IT". Every book you've chosen so far has been like throwing little pieces of my childhood back at me.

And now I understand why I don't mind having a BFF who yells at me all of the time.

murielmercurial

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @latertootie: I am so on that beatnik book. It must be in the Boston library system somewhere.

I'm pretty certain I read The Long Secret *before* Harriet the Spy. I also remembering discarding Sport in disgust 'cause it focused on a boy and was, therefore, a boys' book.

djdreilinger

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @magiciannamedgob: Oh my god! I was just thinking about that book about the girl who moves into the walls of her house. She's such an nobody and so shy that she just becomes part of the wall. And she observes her sisters friends as she lives in the wall and eventually gets the courage to write a note to a boy or something. I think I stopped reading it at that point. That one really weirded me out. I think I didn't finish it because it made me feel dour and dark. But looking at it now, it seems to be a perfect metaphor for how you sometimes feel at that age.

aShinyGumWrapper

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I loved "Harriet the Spy" and "Sport" (that one was great), but "The Long Secret" went over my head as an 8 year old. I think it was primarily due to the fact that I lost my place and skipped a big chunk of it not realizing till the end. :-P

aShinyGumWrapper

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: and @it'stherooo
Yes; I do remember that Sport had a happy ending, but what sticks with me is that he was always grubby and hungry and skinny and they ate weird food (and I don't mean tomato sandwiches...I am thinking junk food). Obviously, I am going to have to find it and read it again; that's something to look forward to.

And the last Fitzhugh book (unless there are some I am unaware of...oh, how wish) I think is called Nobody's Family is Going to Change, and that one had many sad parts (mixed in with funny parts), and it ended on a much more yearning note. I need to try that one again, too, to see if it is as wistful as I remember.

crabbit

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Sport was my favorite too. I think I also read it about 100 times. He was imprisoned in the Plaza hotel by his mother, but he got to eat all the room service steaks he wanted.

Machik

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @thatgirlinnewyork: The dumbwaiter was in Mrs. Plumber's house.

Don't you remember when the maid yanked her out and she had to write in her notebook that day "Spies SHOULD NOT GET CAUGHT!" ??

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: Wasn't the dumbwaiter in Sport's house? Or was it in Harriet's?

Must go re-read these, as I, too, LOVED Louise Fitzhugh's books and read them over and over, much to my mother's chagrin.

As for your nom de plume, I nominate that as Lizzie's next book. The Mixed-Up Files of...was also a perennial fave. sigh!

thatgirlinnewyork

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @ladeedah: That's why I just joined too. Harriet the Spy- I loved this book. Fine Lines rocks!

Farrell

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Oh my God, I loved this book so much. Every time I was home sick from school, I would re-read it with the humidifier on "cool mist," so that I could pretend I was in Montauk (though I had no idea where Montauk was).

tewkesbury

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @It'stheRooo: Oh, absolutely! Harrumph.

I need to visit the children's library RIGHT NOW. My idea of a great Friday night has always involved an egg cream soda and random spying on the neighbours... or at least reading about it!

sventurata

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @ladeedah: "Harriet the Spy rocked (especially the movie in that scene where they all dance around to James Brown dressed like vegetables!)"

There was a movie? I've read all the books, and I missed that boat.

They used James Brown for the dance scene in the movie? I can't imagine Miss Berry (that was what the dance teacher's name was, right?) permitting that. And wasn't it, like, a dance for Thanksgiving vegetables or something?

I mean, I play James Brown at Thanksgiving, but the holiday celebrations that I give and to which I'm invited are usually not exactly soirees of which I believe Miss Berry would approve.

Not, as Beth Ellen might say, that I give a hang.

Hee hee. I've decided I don't need regression therapy. This will do just fine.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @crabbit: Sorry, crabbit. Didn't Sport end up inheriting everything from the grandfather because he had a head for business and because the mom had to leave for Europe because she was exposed for the kidnapping, child-hating, martini-swilling shopaholic that she was?

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @crabbit: They ended up doing all right, though. Didn't

Do I need regression therapy? Or therapy to combat regression? Or something?

Or do books just suck more once we're "grown-up"?

I remember sneaking and trying to read my mom's Robert Ludlum at, like, 11 or so. Bored out of my skull. Bourne wasn't any fun until he was Matt Damon.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: "whatever the old lady with the dumbwaiter in Harriet the Spy's name was...)."

I want to say that was Mrs. Plumber. Agatha Plumber.

And of course you know that Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler would have made mincemeat out of Mrs. Plumber. In, like, two secs. Snap snap.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> HARRIET RULES!!!!

That is all.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @magiciannamedgob: I belive you're thinking of "The Woman in the Wall" by Patrica Kindl. She also wrote "Owl in Love" and "Goose Chase," all of them good.

syneblue

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @crabbit: I thought Sport was the funniest. I read that one like twenty times.

For some reason the adults in Fitzhugh's books really stuck with me, and how they either genuinely treated children's opinions with respect (see: Ole Golly, Harriet's father, Sport's father) or delegated them to objects/nuisances (definitely Sport's mother (Charlotte?), Zeeney, whatever the old lady with the dumbwaiter in Harriet the Spy's name was...).

In particular, there's a contemplative moment from a barbecue in The Long Secret, when Harriet and her dad talk about Beth Ellen's situation. But the best example of this occurs directly after Ole Golly announces her departure from the Welsch household... and she and Harriet take turns shouting likes from "Jabberwocky". Classic comic relief... I wish I had the book still to quote it in its entirety!

sventurata

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Anyone here read Suzuki Beane? It was a Louise Fitzhugh (with Sandra Scopettone) kid's book about a little beatnik and her complicated relationship with her square WASP boy friend, and their respective icky parental units (detached ironic beatnik poet/artists, and alcoholic high society types). Unfortunately appears to be out of print. Best kiddie book intended for adults ever. I read it at six, and figured out all the references fifteen years later.

mwynn13

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Wow, I don't think I read this one! What I'll always remember about H the S is reading it on my bunk bed in my dad's little bitty house in Atlanta and wondering what the hell a dumbwaiter was. Also egg creams. Still don't know what those are actually...

ValerieM

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @littlebluebug: Sport is the third book. I haven't read it for a long time, but I remember it as having some fairly depressing themes (Sport lives alone with his dad, and they are barely scraping by).

crabbit

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> You just made my day, I had no idea there was MORE Harriet M. Welsch to be had!

blancanieves

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @City_Dater: THIRD book???

LBB says YES WE DID!

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I loved this book when I was a kid, and seriously, have not thought about it in years. Seeing the cover art gave me the best kind of bittersweet nostalgic thrill.

Smackdown

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I'm in my 30s and I still read this book every so often -- I liked it even better than Harriet the Spy. I loved the fact that Beth Ellen was in love with the old queen named Bunny who, I think, played piano at the yacht club or something?

yidvicious

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Love Louise Fitzhugh!
Harriet and Beth Ellen make a brief but hilarious appearance in SPORT (the third book, about Harriet's best friend) which reveals what the pattern of their friendship might be through their teen years.

City_Dater

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I know this book by heart (since I still reread it almost every summer). It is the BEST (even better than H.the S.) What about that toe medicine? And Beth Ellen's relationship with her grandmother (who is so dignified and old-fashioned--the antithesis to Zeeney..."I suppose an old woman gets crochety--but she [the maid] MOVED my perfume bottles"). And Harriet's mother's triumph (in her cool green linen sheath dress) when she meets Zeeney at the country club restaurant--Zeeney says she doesn't remember her as part of the Water Mill teen crowd growing up, and Harriet's mother points out that she was around, but that, of course, she was much younger. (And, "Of course," hisses Zeeney).

I am going to have to reread it again soon; I won't wait for summer.

crabbit

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Wow--count me among those ignorant of a sequel. Must find now.

Semi O/T: Oddly enough, it seems like this could have been the inspiration for an episode of King of the Hill featuring Bobby and Joseph (two of my favorite characters on the show, naturally)--Joseph comes back from the summer and has hit puberty, and Bobby hasn't changed--he's still the pudgy, but gregarious kid, while Joseph is tall and looks more adult but becomes painfully awkward by it. It's an interesting look at this tension from a boy's POV--especially because so many things are similar between it and this book.

Which means I must find this and read STAT.

bellethellama

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> aw, i miss my 12 year old friends. we were the shit.
i don't talk to a single one of them anymore, 10 years later.

titania1285

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> i loved harriet the spy and its sequel, but i never realized how "deep" they were; Beth Ellen's dramz goes way beyond what i got out of it back then. does anyone remember another YA book about a girl who moved into the walls of her house? i just thought of it the other day as a story i accepted as a child, but now would probably disturb me a lot more.

magiciannamedgob

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!! I haven't even read this yet because I am so excited I can hardly stand it. I too read Harriet the Spy at least 25 times, each time wishing it was the first and I didn't get the Long Secret till much later, but this is such an incredible, funny, awesome book. Their discussion about the tiger, Janie's contempt for periods, Zeenie's insanity, the probably gay piano player Beth Ellen is in love with and the giant family with the watermelon toe medicine! Priceless. So that I can add something here besides my own inane rambling enthusiasm, my aunt knew Louise Fitzhugh in sixties in the Village--she was quite a character, dressed in men's clothes, drank a LOT. They were part of an informal early sixties queer group of friends (my aunt is a musician). One time, she tells me, she gave Louise a rare guitar and regretted it the next day (it was one of those heat of the moment and booze gifts that one inevitably regrets). Never got the guitar back. She died (LF, not my aunt) from a brain aneurism much much much too soon. I believe there is sort of a tribute site (purple socks.com or something like that?) Now I am going to STOP grading my exams and adore this post.

Thanks Jezzies.

marmite

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> You can't forget about Sport's book!

ou8123

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I loved this book so much! I always combine the plot of this and Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself.

Babyhands

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Harriet the Spy was one of my most favorite books ever, and i'm sure i'm not the only oen who started spying and taking notes on her neighbors because of it. Right? There is another sequel called Sport, about Harriet's male friend. Not as good as H the S or LS, but good for the fanatic.

Fun fact: Louise Fitzhugh also wrote a long-out-of-print book called The Wonderful Adventures of Suzuki Beane: A Lovable Little Hipster, about a little beatnik girl. I have been begging my husband for this book for years.

latertootie

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> So I basically just joined Jezebel so I could talk about how amazing this book is. I read a ton of books when I was little, but for some reason this one really stuck with me. I remember reading it over and over again in the car and crying every time. It was just really true and it didn't make everything better in the end. Harriet the Spy rocked (especially the movie in that scene where they all dance around to James Brown dressed like vegetables!) but this book was just really perfect.

ladeedah

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I totally remember loving and re-reading harriet the spy...i always saw myself as her, crazy as she was. i just loved her journal of secrets. and although i recall reading "the long secret," i don't remember any of it. i need to re-read it!

libertine17

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> This book and Harriet the Spy are both pure genius. I'm a big movie buff, and I think they definitely contributed to my love of character-driven films. The characters in Long Secret can sometimes verge on being too broadly drawn (same with Ole Golly's mother and the Italian family in Harriet), but it's completely forgiveable if you ask me. I've read them both dozens of times.

edgyspice

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Saddle stitched? Aren't paperbacks perfect bound?

Darling

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> It is so sad that I never knew about this book!! After Harriet the spy I took to skulking around my neighborhood taking notes on everyone. My little brother played the role of reluctant sidekick, obviously. SAD! (y'know, for my childhood). I am so reading harriet the spy again!

thereisalight

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> THERE'S A SEQUEL TO HARRIET THE SPY?!
I feel so confused. How did I miss this?

BAngieB

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @janna: Seconded! The things no one told us as children. I hope Jezebel is still on the internets when I finally get around to having a kid, b/c my kid is reading ALL of these.

olivia2.0

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> How have I never read this book?

I need to get it for my 10 year old I watch.

And. yes, the best dramz comes from bffs. Frenemys forever!

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Harriet the Spy (the movie) is on my Amazon wish list...I am so ashamed to say I have never read the book. Guess I'll be adding that to my list, too.

summerwheatley

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I have to say, I work in a children's library and am surrounded by books, and yet Fine Lines wakes up my brain and enables me to bring a fresh and enthusiastic approach to what would otherwise be "stuff I see every day". I heart you, Lizzie Skurnick.

Um, just in case people start thinking I am too serious or something, CEFAD is my second favourite feature.

dutifuldaughter

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I try not to gush and get ass-kissey with the editors here, but Lizzie, you are fucking hilarious, don't you EVER stop writing this column, even after the apocalypse has hit us and Satan is roving the land eating all of our heads (that happens in Revelations, no?), you better still be writing about YA novels so the adults can dream about what it was like to be 12, wanting to be 22.

AndSheWas

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> I still don't know how I never managed to find out about this book anywhere else.

LBB says YES WE DID!

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> My entire Friday at work revolves around being the office to read Fine Lines as soon as it's posted . . . yay for another great book added to my list of ones to find at the secondhand bookstore

girlreporter has a dorky journalism blog

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Thanks for reminding me how much I loved this book when I was growing up. Time for a re-read!

Lynn Peril

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Now I want to read both of these again. Off to the library!!

Melistic

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Yay! Yay! Yay!

Lady Skittlehattington

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> @janna: Seriously. I loved Harriet the Spy so much I used to type it in a Word document like I was writing it myself. And I never knew there was a sequel!

MyFirstAndLastName

]]> <![CDATA[<em>The Long Secret</em>: CSI: Puberty]]> Umm, what? There was a sequel? I read Harriet the Spy a million times, and would have read anything else about Harriet.

janna

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