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 acce... read full description
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Aug 08, 2011
Estelle
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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
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Jan 25, 2009
Needleroozer
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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 fi More...
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 fi More...
Dec 27, 2010
Dreamergirl99
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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'
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Jul 20, 2010
Michelle
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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
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Jul 03, 2007
Rahmadiyanti
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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 an More...
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 an More...
Mar 10, 2011
Sonya
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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 th More...
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 th More...
Aug 22, 2011
Melissa
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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 dram
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 dram
Nov 21, 2011
Lisa
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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.
Dec 06, 2011
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
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Mar 31, 2011
Emily
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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.)
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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.)
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Nov 21, 2010
Karen
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Anastaia is about the age of 13 and her parents decide that they are going to move to the subburns, Anastaia does not like that idea at all and niether does her little brother named Sam. In the middle of the book Anastaia does end up moving, i predict that the rest of the bokk will be about her hating there in her new home or maybe even her liking it at her new home in the subbruns.
Oct 30, 2007
Kenesha
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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 hel More...
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 hel More...
May 30, 2008
george
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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 las More...
Anastasia has grown up a bit since the last book, and she's not quite as self-absorbed as the las More...
Jul 30, 2009
Joanie
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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.
Nov 22, 2008
Melody
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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.
Sep 01, 2008
Swankivy
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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, More...
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, More...
Jul 08, 2011
Sarah
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Love everything about this book, especially the way Katherine responds to Anastasia's Robert Giannini crisis
Oct 10, 2011
Sandy
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I don't think it was as good as the first book but it was still very enjoyable.
Nov 01, 2010
Crista
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Anastasia returns with a new challenge. Now she is coping with a new house, meeting new friends and balancing her old relationships.
Nov 30, 2008
Kate
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This book was really cool, not quite as good as the first one, but close.
Sep 05, 2010
Stephanie
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Love Anastasia, and Lois Lowry. Always fun to revisit a childhood favorite!
Dec 17, 2007
Wendy
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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 More...
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 More...
Apr 11, 2010
Ingrid
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Jul 30, 2009
Allison
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I've always wanted to live in a tower, just like Anastasia. I loved the Anastasia books when I was a kid, now I just need to give them a reread to see if they still hold up.
