This was the first time I've read Harriet as an adult. I loved it as a tween but not because it was such a well written book--I liked playing spy and town and writing, too. From experience, I can tell you that spying in a rural town is much harder than it appeared to be for Harriet. But anyways, it was good to see the story through adult eyes. Harriet's parents seem pretty normal instead of the idiots I used to think of them as. And none of the characters are role models, not even Ol Golly, which is hard for a kid to understand when we've been trained to look for role models in literature. I also liked a lot of the adult jokes that completely went over my head as a kid.