Harriet the Spy is a novel for children by Louise Fitzhugh, published in 1964. It won the Sequoyah Book Award. It was made into a 1996 film of the same name for Nickelodeon starring Michelle Trachtenberg. It was the first film made by Nickelodeon Movies. Plot summary Harriet M. Welsch is an outgoing 11-year-old girl aspiring to be a writer and a spy. Harriet lives a privileged life on the Upper East Side, something she reflects on throughout the book. As practice for her future career, she observes others carefully and writes everything she thinks in a notebook. Her nurse, Catherine Golly (known to Harriet as Ole Golly), has encouraged this. It is shown later in the book that Harriet has become so used to writing things down that she cannot think properly without a notebook. Harriet's observations cover her family, care taker, school, friends and spy route. After school, she goes to observe a set of peo

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