Anastasia Again! (Anastasia Krupnik, #2)

Anastasia Again! (Anastasia Krupnik #2)

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Twelve-year-old Anastasia Krupnik is convinced that her family's move to the suburbs will be the beginning of the end. How can she possibly accept split-level houses with matching furniture, or mothers whose biggest worry is ring around collar? But her new home brings many surprises, not to mention a cute boy who lives down the street. Is it possible that surburbia has mor

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Paperback, 160 pages
Published October 15th 1982 by Yearling (first published October 26th 1981)
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Ana
Sejujurnya aku ngga siap bertemu dengan Anastasia yang agak sedikit hiperaktif dan gampang ngambek. Tapi setelah kupikir-pikir, dia kan masih 12 tahun.. wajar banget kalo banyak hal bisa membuatnya jengkel, soalnya aku pun dulu begitu.

Yang membuat aku suka pada Anastasia adalah karena dia punya orang tua yang keren banget >,< bahkan ayahnya punya rak buku yang menjulang dari lantai sampai langit2 dan menutupi seluruh dinding. Huwaaaaa >,<

Sebenarnya buku ini agak-agak mirip dengan Al...more
Beth Bonini
Anastasia is my contemporary (in the sense that I was about her age in 1981, when this book was published), and I can read her at 45 and think about how much I would have identified with her at 12. Reading these books makes me nostalgic for the childhood that I didn't have, if that makes sense. The big "change" (and major plot point) in this book is that Anastasia's family moves from Cambridge (where her father is an English professor at Harvard) out to the "suburbs." The beginning bit of this b...more
Naomi Hanes
Anastasia again is about a very opinionated girl named Anastasia. At the beginning of the story her parents tell her that they are planning on moving to the suburbs much to her dismay. She has a stereotypical idea of what people are like in the suburbs and she is comfortable where she has lived her whole life.
When she moves to her new house, she meets a really crabby elderly woman next door neighbor that looks like a witch. As she gets to know her better she begins to feel sorry for the old wom...more
Estelle
If you haven't read an Anastasia book you are truly missing out. This is pre-Judy Blume, pre-Alice McKinley. What great female characters are made of. She has spunk, a good heart, she loves to write, and she wants to make sure she fits in some explicit sex in the mystery novel she is writing. (Oh, and Nancy Drew bores her because it's not subtle enough.) Her dad is a professor/poet; her mom is a painter; her brother Sam is a pip. He acts like the oldest 2-year-old I have ever met. There is also...more
Needleroozer
I really like the family in the Anastasia books.

I like that the dad lets Anastasia sip the foam off the top of his beer, which makes her realize that beer is no big deal, so she doesn't feel the need to sneak it in her room.

I like that her parent's have already told her factually about sex, so she doesn't have to sneak books into the house in order to learn the facts of life.

I like that the members of the family sometimes get mad at one another, the parents fight, at times they are all a little...more
Dreamergirl99
This book was okay but not quite delicious as it could have been :) I loved the characters , they were very well done and it must have been a lot of work to shape them so much. The plot was all right, but that's not why I liked the series. The main reason for me was the humor. I couldn't stay still for all of the things Anastacia did. She was witty, smart, and could have been very pretty without the glasses :)Lois Lowry did a great job on the series. But I found something missing that I couldn't...more
Michelle
Anastasia moves to the 'burbs, despite all of her hysterical premature assumptions, into a house with a tower (OMG, I want a tower). I laughed a lot as Anastasia made new friends (with the entire Senior Center) and Gertrustein. I love, love, love how Lois Lowry just writes things that I wonder, Are children okay with that? Do they understand it? When Gertrustein names her new goldfish Mr. Stein and explains to Anastasia about their Brief and Unfortunate Marriage, it's incredibly funny and I wond...more
Endah
Misteri Rumah Baru adalah buku kedua serial Anastasia Krupnik. Anastasia, si gadis kecil kikuk berkacamata burung hantu, itu kini telah berusia 12 tahun. Sebentar lagi ia akan duduk di kelas 7 ( setara dengan kelas I SMP). Adiknya, Sam, kini bukan lagi bayi mungil yang sempat tidak ia inginkan kehadirannya (baca Anastasia Krupnik : Rahasia Si Gadis Kecil). Usia Sam sudah 2 tahun. Ia sudah pandai berjalan dan – terutama – pintar sekali bicara. Atau dengan kata lain, kemampuan verbalnya sangat men...more
Rahmadiyanti
Buku ini adalah seri kedua Anastasia Krupnik. Dan saya tambah jatuh cinta dengan serial ini. Anastasia yang unik dan cerdas. Ayah ibunya yang nyentrik. Sang adik, Sam yang juga nyentrik. Plus cerita yang asyik dengan humor yang cerdas.

Di serial sebelumnya (Anastasia Krupnik: Rahasia si Gadis Kecil), Anastasia dikabarkan sang ortu akan mendapat adik. Dan di buku ke-2 ini, Sam, sang adik, sudah lahir, sudah berusia 2 1/2 tahun, yang tumbuh cepat secara verbal. Menurut Anastasia, itu aneh. Sebab, s...more
Sonya Huser
I love Anastasia Krupnik!
In the second book, Anastasia is 12 years old. Her and her family, including now 2 1/2 year old Sam, are moving to the suburbs. Anastasia hates the idea of the suburbs; women with pink curlers, TV dinners, and plastic bowls of fruit everywhere.
Not surprisingly, she realizes before too long that a lot of her assumptions were wrong. She even makes a few friends before school starts, not even minding that most of them are senior citizens from the center down the street.
Melissa
Someone in a class recommended this series due to my love of the Ramona titles, and I can see why. Like Ramona, Anastasia's a character to whom young girls of that age can relate; she's navigating the same concerns that many her age have. By reading about her struggles, kids learn how to deal with their own.

The Krupniks are moving to the suburbs, so she's getting used to a new place, finding new friends, missing old friends. There's humor, intelligence, and just a hint of tween drama.
Lisa
Anastasia Again! is funny story about a preteen who struggles with her family's move from Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Having lived in Boston during grad school, I appreciate the plays on stereotypes about Cantabrigians v. suburbanites even more now than I did when I first read this book as a kid. Lois Lowry nails the pain of pre-adolescent awkwardness in a totally true and charming way, and manages to be hilarious at the same time.
Zack
I think I found this one even more enjoyable than the first. The incident at the senior drop-in center had me laughing out loud, and the way the title character incorporated the events of her own life into her own mystery novel was also good for a chuckle. The strength of this series is the great balancing act between the humdrum quotidian (choosing wallpaper patterns for a new house in the suburbs) and the delightfully implausible (an eccentric shut-in neighbor named Gertrude Stein). I'm lookin...more
Emily
Anastasia has to move from the apartment in Cambridge she's lived in all her life out to the dreaded suburbs! However will she adjust?
I have always been incredibly jealous of Anastasia's life, ever since I was her age. Her parents treat her like a person and respect her input, her father teaches at Harvard, she lives in the Boston area, and now she has a house with a tower bedroom! (I do realize that Anastasia is fictional.)
Lowry has created a very realistic narrator that young people will relat...more
Kenesha
Well, Anastasia again was very...um...intersesting. She was a drama queen all the way. Anastasia moved from New York City to the suburbs. She hated the boys her age because they were shorter than her and had squeeky voices. But as soon as she set eyes on the house she decided that is wasn't so bad that here parents were moving her away from her apartment and friends.
She soon began to like when she saw the boy that lived down the street and when she decided that it was her duty to help the crank...more
george
Anastasia is back with a big problem: her parents are forcing her to move. To the *suburbs*!! It's going to be perfectly horrible. She has to leave her best friend behind and then there's that issue with Robert Giannini--why is he not-so-weird all of a sudden? Anastasia soon finds out that things aren't always as they appear; and maybe, just maybe, it's not the end of the world after all.

Anastasia has grown up a bit since the last book, and she's not quite as self-absorbed as the last time we sa...more
Joanie
I read and re-read this book as a kid, not caring at all that it was the second book in a series and I had never read the first (funny how I would never dream of doing that now!) I recently got the first book in the series, Anastasia Krupnick at a library book sale but have yet to read it.
Melody
Laugh-out-loud funny. The set-ups are maybe a stretch, but Lowry finishes them off so believably that one goes along, grinning all the way. A pure delight.
Swankivy
I loved the Anastasia books as a young girl and really appreciated Ms. Lowry's distinct writing style. Everyone's a bit too clever with their dialogue sometimes, but I related to Anastasia as a slightly bookish but similarly naïve girl who wants to be a writer.

This is one of my favorite books about Anastasia, in which she deals with her issues surrounding having to move to the suburbs. Her assumptions about the move are dashed when she DOES manage to fall in love with the house, meet the neighb...more
Sarah Sullivan
Love everything about this book, especially the way Katherine responds to Anastasia's Robert Giannini crisis
Sandy
I don't think it was as good as the first book but it was still very enjoyable.
Crista
Anastasia returns with a new challenge. Now she is coping with a new house, meeting new friends and balancing her old relationships.
Kate
This book was really cool, not quite as good as the first one, but close.
cubbie
Gertrude Stein! Kool-Aid for senior citizens! "The Mystery of Saying Goodby!" Leprosy! Flashing!

A true classic.
Rachel Fisher
Love what a city snob she is... Until she sees the bay windows of course
Stephanie
Love Anastasia, and Lois Lowry. Always fun to revisit a childhood favorite!
Wendy
I'm restarring this (I left it at three stars before) because I just reread it, and I liked it much better than I remember liking it before. The final chapters with the giant senior citizens' party are really hilarious, touching, and non-stereotyped.

There's a funny bit where Anastasia tells her mother she's going to have to marry Robert Giannini that I know I didn't "get" when I was a kid.

This one now joins Anastasia On Her Own and Anastasia's Chosen Career as my favorites... and makes me want t...more
Ingrid
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Noora
Ihan yhtä hauska kuin ensimmäinenkin Anastasia-kirja.
Tyson
I really need to reread this series as an adult...
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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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