The Locale: Inkary & Mala’s Home
The Book: Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she’s written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together?
The Fun: The girls visited, played on computers, and watched the movie, Harriet the Spy, produced by Nickelodeon in 1990s, starring Rosie O’Donnell as Ole Golly. While the girls watched the movie, moms caught up and discussed the book, including how little Harriet’s parents participated in her life.
The Food: Various ethnic dishes from Sri Lanka, ice cream, cheese puffs, and pound cake
The Vote: Smith offered up great choices - The Bad Beginning--The first book in the A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket--The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, and lastly, The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo. The girls put their heads down, so that one didn’t influence others, and voted. The top two choices were The Bad Beginning and The Egypt Game. The Bad Beginning won. It was decided that we would take the summer off and meet in their home on August 28th.
The Challenge: After the vote was decided, knowing that the books were quick reads and that several of the girls had read one or several of the series, Smith and Elizabeth decided to offer the girls a challenge. Starting with Book 1, The Bad Beginning, read or reread the entire series, Books 1 - 13. The girl or girls who gets the farthest wins.
Up Next: The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker. Meeting on June 5th at Kate and Brenda’s house.
