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The long secret louise fitzhugh6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Beth Ellen's life is now disrupted by the reappearance of her delinquent but glamorous mother whom she hadn't seen in seven years. Beyond that, The Long Secret is not as good, or perhaps cohesive, a story as the first one, partly because Harriet is subsidiary to her friend Beth Ellen. And if it don't work, it is a bad tool." Then there's a perfectly natural short discussion of that natural feminine phenomenon, menstruation, which occurs at this age but is seldom mentioned in juvenile fiction at this age level. There is some consideration of religion with a valid if unorthodox conclusion-"It is a tool to get through life with. ![]() ![]() There are however occasional sequences which make the book, rather than Harriet, vaguely (very vaguely, by our standards) liable to censure. In any case, in this sequel, Harriet is much less of a controversial character, and, sadly, she's lost lots of her sassy spriteliness. This is more about that spankingly (spankably?) fresh heroine Harriet The Spy whose initial appearance occasioned all kinds of discussion among those who monitor juvenile literature some thought she wasn't very "nice" some even took the position that she was "sick." ![]()
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