Sport, Louise Fitzhugh
Sport, Louise Fitzhugh
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Sport

Author: Louise Fitzhugh

Narrator: Anne Bobby

Unabridged: 4 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/17/2013


Synopsis

Eleven-year-old Sport Rocque is living a happy life, keeping his father?s absentmindedness under control, and managing the family budget. When Kate, Sport?s new?and nice?stepmother enters the picture, things couldn?t be better. Then comes the news: Sport?s wealthy grandfather has just died and Sport is a multimillionaire.
   But millions of dollars equals millions of problems, as Sport soon discovers when his mother returns and kidnaps him to double her share of the inheritance! Life at the Plaza Hotel is no fun when you?re a prisoner. Will Sport manage to return his life to normal?

Praise for Harriet the Spy® and Her Friends
 
Harriet the Spy®

“Harriet is . . . wholly relatable whether you’re eleven or several times that age.”—EW.com
 
Harriet Spies Again
By Louise Fitzhugh and Helen Ericson
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Novel

“Ericson has perfectly captured the voice and pacing of Fitzhugh’s original novel in a seamless rendering of a fresh, enjoyable story for today’s readers.” —School Library Journal

Harriet the Spy, Double Agent
By Louise Fitzhugh and Maya Gold

“Harriet the Spy is back, and Gold does a credible job of maintaining the special character and her crusty charm.” —Booklist

The Long Secret

[STAR] “Written with subtlety, compassion, and [Louise Fitzhugh’s] remarkable ability to see inside the minds of children.” —School Library Journal, Starred
 
Sport

[STAR] “A worthy successor to Harriet the Spy—and that is high tribute.” —Booklist, Starred

About The Author

Louise Fitzhugh (1928–1974) was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She attended Bard College, studied art in Italy and France, and continued her studies in New York at the Art Students League and at Cooper Union. Her books Harriet the Spy, The Long Secret, and Sport have been acclaimed as milestones of children’s literature. These classics delight readers year after year.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lars on August 13, 2009

Mind-blowing. On the first page, Sport's (hated, and justly so) mother tells him, 'You've got a goddamned literal mind.' Such a shot across the bow is Fitzhugh's warning that this will not be your standard middle-school fare. It put me in mind of Susan Patron's dropping in 'scrotum' on page one of '......more

Goodreads review by Vaughan on November 06, 2007

I must have read this as a kid, I know I read HARRIET THE SPY, then read it in 2004 and was blown away and probably got more out of it as a 38 year old than an 8 year old. A true classic. Like The Chocolate War, it's head and shoulders above most of the competition. Deals with some tough issues--is......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on September 20, 2017

This book is, at least to me, an amazing character study. Most of the characters are very complex, and it reads like very real people, right down to the racism. Yes, there's racism in this book, but it is in a believable way that real people deal with, and I think that makes it absolutely valuable. Y......more

Goodreads review by lucy on August 25, 2010

Lucy Longstocking review [URL not allowed] Harriet only plays a guest role in the third book which is set back in New York. Sport focuses on Harriet’s friend Simon who is nicknamed Sport, and lives with his really nice but really hopeless Dad. There is not so much mystery in th......more

Goodreads review by EJ on June 14, 2020

This is, in my opinion, absolutely not a kids book. YA at best. It's a little jarring right after reading the first two Harriet books and the first of the spin-off series (which does the classic Boxcar Children thing of just going right back to the most simplistic take on the characters and staying......more


Quotes

Meet Sport, Harriet’s best friend, in this hilarious companion to Harriet the Spy—now available in paperback!


Awards

  • Texas Bluebonnet Master List