Harriet is a sixth grader who wants to be a writer and so spends part of every day "observing" and keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in her secret notebook.

While spying on her New York City neighborhood with a new friend, Annie, twelve-year-old Harriet decides that the only way to learn Annie's many secrets is to spy on her, as well.

When her married nanny returns to take care of her while her parents are away in France, Harriet hears something curious that makes her think Ole Golly is in some sort of trouble.

Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge.

Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother attended across the sea in Canada. Yet the sun has not yet risen on Flavia's first day in captivity when a gift lands at her feet. And Flavia being Flavia, a budding chemist and sleuth, that gift is a charred and mummified body which tumbles out of a bedroom chimney....

After her spy notebook of secrets goes missing and she receives a ransom note, Kelsie tries to solve the mystery on her own but soon realizes she needs everyone in the Curious Cat Spy Club to rescue the notebook, help a homesick 130-year-old Aldabra tortoise, and unmask a thief.

From Caldecott Award winner Chris Raschka, tales of unforgettable characters who live in a NYC apartment building 
“To the company of ur-New Yorkers like Stuart Little, Harriet the Spy, and Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, let me hold open the door for The Doorman’s Repose. A new favorite." —Gregory Maguire
“….marvelously intriguing stories…” —Lemony...

Fans of Harriet the Spy and Mean Girls will cheer when they meet Charlie C. Cooper, reformed bully, gifted hacker, slightly misguided fashionista, and so-called middle child! This debut tween novel stars the hilariously fresh Charlie Cooper as she tries to ditch her middle-child reputation and make cool friends at her new school in Los Angeles. But being cool isn't as easy as it looks-especially when her dandruff-ridden psychologist tasks Charlie...

An adult Harriet-the-Spy, reborn as a quirky dude, gets sucked into a caper way over his head. Irving can't function socially, so he spies on people and posts the results on the internet, where he has a cult-like following. Normally careful to preserve his anonymity, he breaks his own rules when he falls in love with pretty plus-sized Veronica, a naughty-Bingo caller. Then she disappears. Should Irving pursue, even as Veronica delves deeper into...

An Inspiring Approach to Reading From, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to Ramona the Pest to Wringer, here are 100 great books guaranteed to stir the imagination, spark conversation, and lead the way to adventure. In 100 Books for Girls to Grow On, Shireen Dodson, author of the acclaimed The Mother-Daughter Book Club, offers a selection of both new and classic titles. Each book has been handpicked because it is a joy to read, because it inspires mother-daughter...