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Anastasia Krupnik (Anastasia Krupnik #1)
by
Lois Lowry
Anastasia's tenth year has some good things, like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother, and some bad things, like finding out about an impending baby brother.
Paperback, 113 pages
Published
November 1st 1984
by Yearling
(first published November 30th 1978)
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Jan 23, 2009
Needleroozer
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This book has a copyright date of 1979, and it 's the first in a series, but I had never heard of it until I picked it up at my library today. How did I miss these books when I was an avid reader kid? Strange!
In this book, Anastasia is 10 years old. She is smart and feisty and clever, spunky and a bit sassy, but not a pain in the neck like that Junie B. girl. I like Anastasia, I wish she had been my friend when I was ten.
I have a bunch of the other books in the series, just waiting for me to rea...more
In this book, Anastasia is 10 years old. She is smart and feisty and clever, spunky and a bit sassy, but not a pain in the neck like that Junie B. girl. I like Anastasia, I wish she had been my friend when I was ten.
I have a bunch of the other books in the series, just waiting for me to rea...more
Jan 15, 2009
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Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
8/10
Anastasia, just ten, deals with her first crush, the death of her grandmother, and the birth of her new baby brother. I really would have loved this book as a kid, it uses big words and appreciated poetry that doesn't rhyme. I don't know how I missed it.
Why challenged? Language (damn and shit are both used, once or twice), Anastasia's list of things she hates, death, etc. Basically, for being a "real" book.
Research Says: Profanity
I have also read six other book...more
8/10
Anastasia, just ten, deals with her first crush, the death of her grandmother, and the birth of her new baby brother. I really would have loved this book as a kid, it uses big words and appreciated poetry that doesn't rhyme. I don't know how I missed it.
Why challenged? Language (damn and shit are both used, once or twice), Anastasia's list of things she hates, death, etc. Basically, for being a "real" book.
Research Says: Profanity
I have also read six other book...more
I read this book years ago when I was in elementary and I probably really liked it. So I decided to reread this book and it was like reading it for the first time! I hardly remembered anything! For someone who usually doesn't like rereading books, this was a plus!
I just recently read Beverly Cleary's "Henry Huggings and the Clubhouse" and I noticed how different Henry and Anastasia are. They are both probably around the same age but Henry seems so much more polite and nice! Anastasia is spunky,...more
I just recently read Beverly Cleary's "Henry Huggings and the Clubhouse" and I noticed how different Henry and Anastasia are. They are both probably around the same age but Henry seems so much more polite and nice! Anastasia is spunky,...more
It's weird, I didn't really think of these books as that funny when I was a kid. Anastasia reminds me a lot of myself at that age, so I probably just thought it seemed normal.
But now! I was reading this at lunch and I had to stop because I kept laughing and my co-workers were staring at me.
For example:
"Anastasia had a small pink wart in the middle of her left thumb. She found her wart very pleasing. It had appeared quite by surprise, shortly after her tenth birthday, on a morning when nothing el...more
But now! I was reading this at lunch and I had to stop because I kept laughing and my co-workers were staring at me.
For example:
"Anastasia had a small pink wart in the middle of her left thumb. She found her wart very pleasing. It had appeared quite by surprise, shortly after her tenth birthday, on a morning when nothing el...more
Rereading Anastasia is like revisiting a place that you didn't quite remember you'd been to, but as soon as you get there everything seems familiar. Mrs. Westvessel, Washburn Cummings, the lists, her mole, her changing relationship with her grandmother, her secret bad thoughts, her poetry outfit. It was all tucked away in some obscure part of my brain, waiting to be rediscovered. I reread the book a few years ago, for the first time since middle school, probably, and listening to it on audio bro...more
When I was younger I read a lot of Lois Lowry's novels including Number The Stars, The Giver, and A Summer To Die, but I had never read Anastasia Krupnik. I came across this novel a couple of months ago and knew it was time to finally read it.
Anastasia Krupnik is a spunky, fickle ten year old girl. She's creative and original and very opinionated. One of my favorite things about her is her little green notebook where she keeps her most secret thoughts. In there she has a list of things she love...more
Anastasia Krupnik is a spunky, fickle ten year old girl. She's creative and original and very opinionated. One of my favorite things about her is her little green notebook where she keeps her most secret thoughts. In there she has a list of things she love...more
My oldest daughter adored the Anastasia series when she was in late elementary school, but strangely enough, I've just read the first novel in its entirety. I love the character of Anastasia: she is wholly original, an independent thinker, but also a girl who realistically captures the emotionally "mercurial" state of being 10 years old. So many fictional girls of this age are precocious in the bratty, smart-aleck sense of the word, but Anastasia is pert in a more loveable and unique way.
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This series introduces Anastasia Krupnik, her professor father, her artist mother, and (eventually) her little brother, Sam, as well as her friends and foes, while she grows from one "catastrophic" event to the next. Funny, and honest portrayal from a little girl's perspective, with each new book in the series exploring different aspects of every child's struggle to "find themselves" while "fitting in."
Each can be read independently, but the series is most fun if you start at the beginning and w...more
Each can be read independently, but the series is most fun if you start at the beginning and w...more
Anastasia Krupnik is stupidly charming and these books are charmingly written. I loved them when I was a kid and went through a phase this summer where I reread the ones I had loved and a few I had missed growing up.
This first one, in particular, is really fantastic. The later ones are hit and miss, but never bad. I don't know if it is that Anastasia's family is so realistic or if her family is just similar in ways to mine was when I was a young girl, but there is something so homey and comfort...more
This first one, in particular, is really fantastic. The later ones are hit and miss, but never bad. I don't know if it is that Anastasia's family is so realistic or if her family is just similar in ways to mine was when I was a young girl, but there is something so homey and comfort...more
I liked when she made her list and when she got her chocolate cigar from the drugstore guy, Mr. Belden. I wanted some chocolate right then.
But she swore. Well, she didn't swear, it was her mom, and then she was like, "Oh, I want to become Catholic so I can change my name, but then I want to be something else, like a Hare Krishna, and I like this guy but I don't like this guy and I have a wart and I like it and it's pink."
And I didn't like the poem. At all. I get why the teacher would give her an...more
But she swore. Well, she didn't swear, it was her mom, and then she was like, "Oh, I want to become Catholic so I can change my name, but then I want to be something else, like a Hare Krishna, and I like this guy but I don't like this guy and I have a wart and I like it and it's pink."
And I didn't like the poem. At all. I get why the teacher would give her an...more
In this first book of a wonderful series by an amazing author, we meet Anastasia Krupnik, age 10. She is a funny and incredibly precocious child. Her father is a professor of English and her mother is an artist.
Anastasia enjoys an only-child existence. That is, until her parents announce that another baby is on the way; a boy. Anastasia earns the right to name the baby and decides a really awful name. She is not happy about this news. She displays the typical behavior of an only child getting a...more
Anastasia enjoys an only-child existence. That is, until her parents announce that another baby is on the way; a boy. Anastasia earns the right to name the baby and decides a really awful name. She is not happy about this news. She displays the typical behavior of an only child getting a...more
I can't remember any more which book features which adventures of Anastasia, but I used to freaking love this character and her family. I first heard of Billie Holliday because of these books (Anastasia's father has never forgiven her for leaving the Billie Holliday records on the radiator). These are kind of modern versions of your Anne of Green Gables kind of character; smart and precocious and heaps of personality, getting into scrapes and whatnot. Girls at those ages need stories about girls...more
Anastasia is a very well read little girl and the only child. Her father teachers at Harvard and writes poetry and her mother is an artist. She is currently composing a list of the things she hates and the things she likes. We follow her through a school year with all of its trauma. We also see how she copes with changes in her family.
This is the first in the series by Lois Lowry. The chapters are unique in that they each discuss a separate event or occurrence. I love how we get the whole though...more
This is the first in the series by Lois Lowry. The chapters are unique in that they each discuss a separate event or occurrence. I love how we get the whole though...more
Reading level 4.9-5.5
All the Anastasia books are interesting, I haven't read them as an adult, but I remember reading them when I was younger. I liked how Anastasia learns and grows in the books, and Lois Lowry is one of my favorite authors. There are quite a few of these Anastasia books, and some about her little brother Sam.
I read this book, and remembered why I liked the book. I love Anastasia's lists, they are a lot of fun. I like how she changes her mind about things, it reminds me of how...more
All the Anastasia books are interesting, I haven't read them as an adult, but I remember reading them when I was younger. I liked how Anastasia learns and grows in the books, and Lois Lowry is one of my favorite authors. There are quite a few of these Anastasia books, and some about her little brother Sam.
I read this book, and remembered why I liked the book. I love Anastasia's lists, they are a lot of fun. I like how she changes her mind about things, it reminds me of how...more
Membaca buku ini bikin aku senyam senyum, ketawa ngikik, sedih (ketika nenek Anastasia meninggal) dan mengingatkanku akan masa kecil. Terutama kebiasaan Anastasia yang suka mencatat hal-hal yang disukainya ataupun hal-hal yang dibencinya. Dulu, waktu kecil (sayangnya aku lupa usia berapa, apakah seusia Anastasia yang 10 tahun) aku juga punya buku yang berisi catatan yang hampir sama dengan Anastasia. Dulu, aku juga mencatat barang-barang yang ingin dibeli, dan sifat-sifat jelek yang ingin aku bu...more
The Anastasia Krupnik series was 29th on the American Library Association's "The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000"[1:] for reasons such as references to beer, Playboy Magazine, and a casual reference to a character wanting to kill herself. The series was also criticized because one novel of the series featured Anastasia replying to a personal ad and lying about her age and her life to an older man; however, the two never have any romantic experiences and when they meet, the man...more
Although aspects of Anastasia Krupnik are dated (Anastasia gets a record player for Christmas, she takes a sip from her dad’s beer which couldn’t be casually included in a book these days), I found it absolutely charming overall. I could identify both with Anastasia and with her parents—many of the conversations they had are variations on conversations I’ve had with my own kids, and some of Anastasia’s experiences resonate with my childhood memories.
For a full review, see http://reads4tweens.com...more
For a full review, see http://reads4tweens.com...more
Anastasia Krupnik. Heroine to so many odd 10-year-olds: vulnerable and precocious, she rocks round horn-rimmed glasses that she picked out herself, she considers converting to Catholicism in order to rename herself Perpetua, and she reworks her worldview in every chapter, which ends with a running and often edited list of "Things I love" and "Things I hate." Nice to know that a complex and subversive heroine remains true to herself, even to an adult reader.
Bonus points if you borrow the 1979 ha...more
Bonus points if you borrow the 1979 ha...more
Nov 17, 2012
Tredyffrin Kids
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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Lois Lowry is better known today for her scifi/dystopian trilogy that begins with the Newbery-winning book The Giver, but this engaging, intelligent, realistic, and gently humorous series about Anastasia and her family and friends is a real winner. Anastasia is a smart, strong heroine and a great role model for middle-grade girls, but there is nothing preachy about these books. Her struggles with her loving family and her journey to discover who she is and what she contributes to the world are w...more
Though Lowry is, I believe, mostly famous for her dystopian series, The Giver, I think readers should also give the middle grade Anastasia Krupnik a read to see the breadth of Lowry’s writing skills. Her ability to weave into existence Anastasia, an irreverent, irrepressible and entirely charming ten year old is impressive. Anastasia is unintentionally witty and, to older readers, extremely funny as she charges full steam through life falling in love, falling out of love and making decisions (ba...more
Tak banyak yang mampu saya gali dari ingatan kenangan masa usia 10 tahun. Rasanya semua berlalu sebagaimana mestinya, tak ada yang istimewa. Umur sepuluh, artinya saya kelas IV SD. Saya tumbuh seperti anak-anak yang lain : bermain, sekolah, baca buku, sakit, bertengkar dengan adik atau teman, sesekali juga dengan ibu saya, dan mengaji di sore hari. Tak ada yang macam-macam rasanya. Tidak seperti Anastasia Krupnik, gadis Amerika dalam novel anak-anak karya Lois Lowry ini.
Anastasia Krupnik, anak p...more
Anastasia Krupnik, anak p...more
I'm using this review as a review of all the Anastasia Krupnik books and also the 100th thing about Caroline. I've read them all and each is more hilarious and endearing than the next. Anastasia grows up in Boston and is the daughter of Myron, a Harvard poetry professor, and Katherine, a children's book illustrator. She has a fairly annoyingly precocious little brother named Sam (probably my least favorite character). She loves lists, Frank the goldfish, her tower, and her old wallpaper of the t...more
Jul 03, 2007
Rahmadiyanti
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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Waktu kecil pernah sebal dengan nama sendiri? Sebal dengan guru yang menurut kita nggak adil? Dengan nenek? Dengan ortu karena kita mau dikasi adik baru? Senang dengan seorang cowok, kemudian balik benci? Saya pernah. Anastasia Krupnik juga pernah, si gadis cilik berusia 10 tahun, tokoh utama novel menarik ini.
Baca nih novel seakan nostalgia masa kecil saya dulu. Yang pernah sebal dengan nama, kenapa nggak sebagus dan sepanjang nama teman-teman lain, sebal dengan guru yang nggak adil memberi nil...more
Baca nih novel seakan nostalgia masa kecil saya dulu. Yang pernah sebal dengan nama, kenapa nggak sebagus dan sepanjang nama teman-teman lain, sebal dengan guru yang nggak adil memberi nil...more
I read this for my book club where we reread books we read when we were younger, but this was the first time I'd ever read it. I wish I'd read it when I was 10 because of great lines like this: "I need to start worrying about making myself some memories" or this: "These are the most important things that happened the year that I was ten: I began to have a mercurial temperament." Or all of her wart references. This is such a smart, insightful book for kids, but I thoroughly enjoyed it, too.
I picked this up off the staff picks rack, and was intrigued by the book as the author of The Giver--this is completely different. THe heroine is a 10 year old whose parents are having a new baby, and she is grappling with life as a ten year old and no longer being the only child in her parents life. It is very funny and very reminiscent of the age she is, and I really enjoyed it. It was a fast read, and I would recommend it to a grammar school aged kid. Identity vs. Role Confusion.
I couldn't get enough of the Anastasia books when I was the target age for them. I liked (still do) books where not much happens and all of the people are nice. Anastasia's academic family reminded me of my own more than other typical young adult book suburban families. As an adult, I'm less enamored of the later ones, which seem to rely too much on wacky misunderstandings, but the first one--a quiet story about Anastasia's opposition to her parents having another kids--still holds up.
I'll let you in on a little secret...I'd read this one before. This time I was reading it to my own 10 year old daughter. I was a bit older than that when I first read this book but it still remains one of my favorites. Anastasia Krupnik is (despite what she thinks) your typical 10 year old girl. She changes her mind and her opinion ALOT and she's not sure what to think of all of the changes that are coming her way. For one thing her mother pregnant which means a new baby in the house and she is...more
What a classic. I read this aloud to the girls (ages 6 and 7) and had to edit just a little so I'd be comfortable. Watch for some language (s-word) and adult subjects, including death. It's a good growing-up book and I'll recommend it to them again to read on their own when they're 11 or 12. It really got them enthusiastic about their own journal-writing, and they each have their own "things I hate" and "things I love" lists. I have NO complaints about this book.
When I was around this age, I wanted to be Anastasia so much! She was cool. She wore glasses like me. She didn't understand boys, just like me. As the series continued, I loved how quirky and interesting she was. My favorite was Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst, in which she got a bust of Sigmund Freud and used him as an actual therapist. Completely genious. As someone who was often misunderstood, I could relate to Anastasia on a completely different level!
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Taken from Lowry's website:
"I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad; together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets; and later, when Jon was older, they always...more
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"I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad; together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets; and later, when Jon was older, they always...more
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