Anastasia Krupnik (Austral Juvenil, 79)

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Summary: Coming-of-age for smart kids
Review: A great beginning to a great series. Nothing sentimental or overdramatic here, just a quirky, smart kid growing up. This is a perfect gift for young, bright girls.

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Summary: Anastasia Krupnik
Review: A ten year old girl going through an exciting yet confusing life runs into obsticles that change her life. For instance she falls deeply in love with a crazy boy who has a last name for a first name. Washburn Cummings. He's a crazy boy that got sent home because he came to school with an insane writing on his t-shirt. It leaves you hanging on about everything and makes you want to read on. When she finds out her mom is pregnant she gets mad. Her mom and dad decide she can name her baby brother. The worst name she could think of is Boy Krupnik or Girl Krupnik. When her Grandmother dies she decides that she would name it- in honer of her grandmother- SAM.This is the kind of book that lets you skip chapters and still you know what's going on. It makes you want to keep on reading and then read the series.

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Summary: This is a really funny book about a 10-year-old girl.
Review: Anastasia Krupnik is one of my favorite books! She is really funny, and she likes to write lists in her green notebook. She has a fish named Frank and a professor dad and artist mom. She finds out that she is getting a new brother- in other words, her mother is pregnant! Anastasia is very mad! How could her parents do such a thing? Well, anyway, Anastasia also gets in more funny adventures. Like when she falls in love with Washburn Cummings, the 6th grader with 2 last names. And the time she tries to be Catholic but decides not to when she finds out she has to confess things, even small one like stealing cupcakes...this book is great! READ IT NOW!!!

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Summary: Anastasia Krupnik: Being ten is no laughing matter.
Review: I read "Anastasia Krupnik: Being ten is no laughing matter," by Lois Lowry, to assist my daughter with her 7th grade language arts assignment. The book was very well written and enjoyable to read.

The story is set in Boston, Massachusetts, where ten-year-old Anastasia is struggling with an identity crisis, eccentric parents, and the pain of growing up an only child in a secular household. Her father is an English professor who writes poetry and her mother is an artist who forgets to do the laundry, which is why they both wear socks that don't match. Anastasia writes a poem without rhyme or meter and reads it to her class, but her teacher doesn't appreciate modern poetry; she gives her an "F" and tells her to follow the rules when writing poems. She has an on-again, off-again crush on a boy who doesn't like her, a grandmother who can't remember her name due to the onset of dementia, and a baby brother soon to be born: even her goldfish "blurps" at her from within the confines of its bowl.

At one point Anastasia decides to become Catholic, so she can change her name, but she soon changes her mind when she learns that stealing cupcakes from her friend is a sin and she will have to confess her sins to become a Catholic. Anastasia chronicles the significant events of her life in a green notebook, listing things she loves in one column and things she hates in another. Sometimes the things she hates become the things she loves and vice versa. By the end of the story, there remains only one item on the list of things she hates - liver - but the list of things she loves is long. The story is told with humorous effect, even though some of the things that happen are sad.

There are a few troublesome comments about her teacher's anatomy and conversations between Anastasia and her parents sometimes show a lack of discretion, but all things considered, it is the tender account of a prepubescent little girl with a prodigious intellect and an eagerness to learn and grow. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a coming-of-age story, but it will definitely hold your little girl's interest and in a subtle way, let her know that she is not alone in her quest to overcome life's many tribulations. It even has a happy ending to boot.

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Summary: Grew up on these
Review: One of the major moments in my childhood came when I read that Myron Krupnik kept his poetry manuscripts in the crisper drawer of the fridge so they wouldn't burn in a fire. My father (also a poet, also an English professor) did the exact same thing. I vaguely remember jumping up and down on my bed and wanting to move to Boston.
Buy these for your child, even if you're not a poet. They're wonderful.

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Summary: You really should read this
Review: The reviewer who said something about the lack of plot of this book (or, at least, the plot keeps changing from chapter to chapter) is right. It is not as well-written as some of the other Anastasia books. I still really liked it, though.

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Summary: Lois Lowry's Anastasia Krupnik Book
Review: This is one of Lois Lowry's earliest books, in fact it is her second book. The story follows ten-year old Anastasia Krupnik, the daughter of a poet and an artist as she completes the fourth grade. Anastasia changes her opinion of several things, from Washburn Cummings (her crush) to her parents, baby brother, and grandmother. While this book is not typical of Lowry's work (not even the books she wrote later about Anastasia) it is worth your time to read it. It should also be noted that this children's book has a few curse words in it and that there is mention of beer, in fact the main character drinks beer. Other than that, you may very well enjoy this book. It is different from Lowry's later works, but its still charming.

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Summary: Lois Lowry's Anastasia Krupnik Book
Review: This is one of Lois Lowry's earliest books, in fact it is her second book. The story follows ten-year old Anastasia Krupnik, the daughter of a poet and an artist as she completes the fourth grade. Anastasia changes her opinion of several things, from Washburn Cummings (her crush) to her parents, baby brother, and grandmother. While this book is not typical of Lowry's work (not even the books she wrote later about Anastasia) it is worth your time to read it. It should also be noted that this children's book has a few curse words in it and that there is mention of beer, in fact the main character drinks beer. Other than that, you may very well enjoy this book. It is different from Lowry's later works, but its still charming.