![]() Oh, and the whole menstruation topic is HUGE with Beth Ellen and Harriet (oh, and good old crazy Janie comes into the book as well) – since they are 12, and Beth Ellen starts menstruating that summer. The intricacies of the plot are not as clear to me with this one as with Harriet – I can’t remember – Beth Ellen is staying with her grandmother, I know that – and her mother is … off gallivanting with a new man in Europe or something? Beth Ellen is kind of a sad character. Nobody knows who is writing these notes, and it gets the town into a kind of tizzy. The butcher gets one, the librarian gets one, etc etc. The girls are now 12 – and it’s summer vacation – and their families both have houses in a place like The Hamptons (of course they do!! You always could tell Harriet’s family was wealthy.) And there’s a mystery in the town – someone has been writing strange notes, and leaving them all over town. The lead of this book is Beth Ellen (a mousy girl who appears peripherally in Harriet the Spy). ![]() A sort of sequel to Harriet the Spy – only Harriet isn’t the lead of this one. Next book on the shelf is The Long Secret by Louise Fitzhugh. ![]()
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