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.

"There are a few things you should know about Harriet Wermer: She always tells the truth. She's loving spending her summer on Marble Island, where she is an A+ mystery-solver. Okay, maybe she doesn't always tell the truth. Actually...she has a tendency to lie quite a bit. Which is why, when one of the guests at her grandmother's bed-and-breakfast finds that their treasured pair of binoculars has gone missing, no one believes Harriet when she said...

Harriet dreams of becoming a writer, and her nanny and best friend Golly told her to start by writing down everything she sees. It's all in good fun until Harriet's friends find her secret spy notebook. They don't like what Harriet's written. And they don't like Harriet that much, either. Can Harriet win back her friends, or is she doomed to be an outsider, a rejected writer and forgotten spy?

Aspiring writer Harriet 'The Spy' Welsch is determined to become class blogger. Competing against her supreme nemesis, Marion Hawthorne, Harriet will do whatever it takes to win the coveted title. But when it begins to look like Marion might take the lead, Harriet becomes desperate to figure out a way to get the most blog hits.

As he did in his highly acclaimed George Washington, Spymaster, author Thomas B. Allen digs back through historical records to present a famous historical figure in a new light. Readers discover that Harriet Tubman--well-known to them as an ex-slave who led hundreds of her people to freedom along the Underground Railroad--was also a spy for the Union Army. More specifically she worked behind Confederate lines in South Carolina getting information...