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Anastasia Krupnik (Anastasia Krupnik #1)

by Lois Lowry

3.90 · rating details · 3,077 ratings · 175 reviews

To Anastasia Krupnik, being ten is very confusing. For one thing, she has this awful teacher who can't understand why Anastasia doesn't capitalize or punctuate her poems. Then, there's Washburn Cummings, a very interesting sixth-grade boy who doesn't even know she is alive. Even her parents have become difficult. They insist she visit her 92-year-old grandmother who can ne...more

Paperback, 144 pages

Published November 1st 1984 by Yearling (first published November 30th 1978)

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Jan 23, 2009

Needleroozer rated it

Shelves: kids-chapter-books

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, j...more

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Jan 15, 2009

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Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
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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.

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Jun 22, 2011

Jenne rated it

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Shelves: jf

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.

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"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 birthd...more

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Apr 07, 2011

Jess rated it

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Shelves: audiobook, juv

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 ...moreRereading 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 brought back that same feeling.

I have to confess - I almost didn't keep going with the audio version. C.J. Critt does a great job of inhabiting the world of a ten-year-old, but she inserts these long pauses into the narrative as if waiting for a slow reader to follow along the page with her. This is downright annoying at first, especially when you can hear her inhaling, but fortunately I was stuck with it on a 40 minute drive and by the time I was a few tracks in, I was hooked. It's a short book and I listened to the whole thing in one day, what with a slightly longer drive home and listening while cooking dinner.

But what's so great about Anastasia and the way Lois Lowry tells her story? Simply that I believe Anastasia is a ten year old. She's on the edge of figuring out the world - what does she love and hate? How does she reconcile her interior world with reality? She has a life that was enough like mine for me to relate, but different enough to feel exciting. She's funny. She makes lists. Also, rereading as an adult, her parents seem awesome - fully fleshed-out characters that I wouldn't mind hanging out with.

Sure, there are a few dated things in the book - the college students smoking in class, her parents finding out they're having a boy after taking a special test, not because of an ultrasound, and a few other references, but Anastasia as a character doesn't date at all. It doesn't look like the rest of the series is available on audio through my library (or maybe at all), but I'm eager to reread the whole series and discover more bits I'd forgotten (I know there's a character named Lloyd later in the series because I distinctly remember someone insisting it be pronounced "Yoyd").

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Jan 25, 2011

Lisa rated it

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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...more

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Jun 30, 2010

Michelle rated it

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Dec 02, 2009

Teresa B rated it

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Shelves: kids-4-9-yrs, kids-9-12-yrs, kids-teens-12-20-yrs

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."

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Mar 17, 2010

Britt-goodie of newsieness rated it

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Shelves: yuck-books

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...more

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Jan 30, 2010

Emma rated it

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Shelves: americana, children, family_families, fiction, gender_feminist, read-last-century, love

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

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Oct 17, 2010

Crista rated it

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Shelves: chapter-book, children-s-books, realistic-fiction

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 ...more

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Nov 08, 2010

Heather rated it

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Shelves: juvenile-fiction

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 ...more

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Apr 18, 2009

Haryadi 'Fathin' Yansyah rated it

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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...moreMembaca 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 buang, hihihi *masa kecil yang penuh kenangan.

Anastasia memiliki Ayah dan Ibu yang asyik aka gokil, hehe. Ayah Anastasia –Dr. Myron Krupnik, adalah seorang profesor sastra yang gemar sekali bercanda. Aku sudah mulai suka padanya ketika ia berkata, ”mungkin Ibu Westvessel adalah seorang mutan, aku yakin.” Hal.13.

Atau... ”Ayah, aku kira cinta adalah salah satu hal yang paling sulit dimengerti di dunia ini.”
”Tunggu sampai kamu bertemu kalkulus.” Ayahnya melakukan gerakan alis seperti Groucho Max. Hal.102.

Seperti kebanyakan anak seusianya, Anastasia penuh dengan hal-hal unik, misalnya saja ia sangat menyukai kutil warna merah muda yang ada di tengah-tengah jempol kaki kirinya. *anak yang aneh, hahaha. Di lain waktu ketika ia tahu akan memiliki seorang adik, Anastasia marah besar dan sempat berkata, ”apa yang sedang Ibu coba lakukan, mau mencatat dalam Guinness Book of World Records?.... ”Ibu terlalu tua untuk punya bayi!” Hal.32

Proses penulisan hal-hal yang dibenci atau disukai Anastasia ke dalam buku catatannya berlangsung unik, jujur, polos dan apa adanya. Sewaktu ketika ia menyukai seseorang (anak lelaki tampan bernama Cummings), Anastasia segera menuliskannya di bagian ”Hal-hal yang aku sukai.” namun, ketika ternyata Cummings berkata bahwa rambut Anastasia seperti baru kesetrum dan itu membuatnya jengkel atau marah, Anastasia segera menuliskan namanya di bagian ”Hal-hal yang aku benci!” Pada akhir cerita, Anastasia mengajari aku sebuah hal kecil (namun berarti sangat besar) dan sering aku lupakan. Bahwa, kebencian atau kesukaan terhadap sesuatu/seseorang itu hanya soal sudut pandang.
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Jul 27, 2009

Erin marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: banned-challenged

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...more

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Dec 05, 2008

Endah rated it

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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...moreMisteri 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 menakjubkan untuk anak seusianya.

Anastasia sudah tak lagi membuat daftar hal-hal yang paling dibenci dan disukainya. Ia menggantinya dengan semacam buku harian. Di dalamnya ia mencatat atau lebih tepatnya menulis calon novelnya. Ya, Anastasia ingin menulis novel sendiri.

Tetapi persoalan utama dalam buku kedua ini bukan novel tersebut. Seperti judulnya, masalah utamanya adalah rencana kepindahan keluarga Krupnik ke rumah baru di daerah pinggiran kota. Orang tua Anastasia merasa bahwa apartemen yang mereka tempati selama ini sudah terlalu sempit untuk ditinggali empat orang. Mereka mesti mencari tempat tinggal baru yang lebih luas.

Anastasia yang seumur hidupnya belum pernah pindah rumah, awalnya menentang rencana kepindahan itu. Dari informasi yang ia baca – salah satunya dari majalah, ehmm, Cosmopolitan (aduh, ini kan bacaan orang dewasa!) – bahwa tinggal di pinggiran kota itu sangat tidak menyenangkan. Para perempuannya setiap pagi bangun tidur dengan sejumlah rol rambut warna merah muda di kepala mereka. Di rumah mereka selalu ada hiasan buah-buahan palsu di atas TV. Dan masih banyak lagi asumsi buruk ihwal kehidupan masyarakat pinggiran kota. Anastasia tak sanggup membayangkan tinggal di daerah semacam itu. Karenanya ia lalu berupaya menggagalkan rencana tersebut. Misalnya, dengan mengajukan syarat bahwa ia mau pindah asal rumah baru mereka nanti memiliki menara.

Sepertinya tidak mudah menjadi gadis remaja 12 tahun. Segala hal yang paling sepelepun bisa jadi masalah ‘serius’. Dari mulai jerawat, postur tubuh sampai soal cowok. Masa-masa ini merupakan masa ‘rawan’, masa serbatanggung, peralihan dari kanak-kanak menuju dewasa. Untuk disebut kanak-kanak sudah tak pantas lagi, namun juga belum dapat dikatakan dewasa.

Dalam buku ini – seperti juga pada buku pertamanya – Lois Lowry menyampaikan kisah seorang anak remaja dengan aneka problemanya. Lewat tokohnya yang cerdas, Anastasia Krupnik, Lowry memaparkan ceritanya dengan sangat menarik dan natural. Petuah-petuahnya tak menggurui. Pesan-pesannya tak terasa minteri (sok pinter). Ia menuangkannya dalam kisah lucu menggelitik.

Anastasia tak digambarkan sebagai tokoh yang serbapintar. Ia, seperti kebanyakan remaja 12 tahun, adalah juga anak yang kikuk berhadapan dengan teman lelakinya atau minder dengan tinggi tubuhnya. Dia juga penasaran dengan dunia orang dewasa, karenanya diam-diam berlangganan majalah Cosmopolitan. Bukankah hal-hal tersebut adalah fakta yang sering kita jumpai sehari-hari?

Beruntunglah Anastasia sebab memiliki ayah-ibu yang sangat pengertian dan demokratis, selalu memberinya dukungan dalam situasi apapun, senantiasa hangat dan penuh cinta. Ia tak pernah mengalami KDRT (kekerasan dalam rumah tangga). Pak dan Bu Krupnik agaknya contoh orang tua ideal masa kini. Akan bermanfaat sekali jika para orang tua juga ikut membaca buku (remaja) ini.

Ada saatnya kita para orang tua menjadi sahabat bagi anak-anak kita. Jangan mentang-mentang ortu lalu selalu merasa benar sendiri. Pendapat anak tak pernah digubris. Ide-ide anak tak pernah didengar. Karyanya tak pernah dipuji, boro-boro dihargai. Bisanya hanya marah mendapati anak kita diam-diam membaca majalah orang dewasa.

Disadari atau tidak, kita senantiasa menuntut anak-anak kita menjadi anak yang baik, berprestasi, dan berbudi luhur tanpa sepenuhnya memberikan ‘fasilitas’ yang mereka butuhkan. Sungguh, jika demikian adanya kita telah bersikap tidak adil pada anak-anak kita. Ingatlah, anak juga manusia. Hanya saja mereka belum dewasa.

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Nov 11, 2008

Endah rated it

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Aku suka banget serial Anastasia Krupnik ini. Gaya bertutur Lois Lowry serta tema cerita yang realis benar-benar sesuai dengan selera bacaanku. Ya, ini memang buku cerita remaja, tetapi kurasa ini sebuah buku yang keren yang akan membuatku ketagihan membacanya. Buktinya aku terus mengikutinya sampai judul ketiga terjemahan Indonesianya. Seluruhnya, serial ini terdiri dari 9 judul. Aku sih berharap betul semua judul tersebut diterbitkan di sini.

Keluarga Krupnik, menurutku, adalah mode...moreAku suka banget serial Anastasia Krupnik ini. Gaya bertutur Lois Lowry serta tema cerita yang realis benar-benar sesuai dengan selera bacaanku. Ya, ini memang buku cerita remaja, tetapi kurasa ini sebuah buku yang keren yang akan membuatku ketagihan membacanya. Buktinya aku terus mengikutinya sampai judul ketiga terjemahan Indonesianya. Seluruhnya, serial ini terdiri dari 9 judul. Aku sih berharap betul semua judul tersebut diterbitkan di sini.

Keluarga Krupnik, menurutku, adalah model keluarga modern kelah menengah ideal. Pasangan suami istri Krupnik yang bekerja, beranak dua, tanpa pembantu, dan tinggal di dareah pinggiran kota adalah gambaran sebuah keluarga muda masa kini di daerah perkotaan.

Namun, bukan itu banget yang membuatku “mengidolakan” keluarga asyik ini. Terutama sekali adalah pada cara mereka berinteraksi setiap harinya dengan memakai prinsip kesetaraan. Hubungan ayah, ibu, dan anak adalah sebuah hubungan yang setara. Mereka saling menghormati dan menghargai. Semua bebas bicara dan semua mendengar dan didengar.

Nyonya Krupnik lebih banyak bekerja di rumah sebagai pelukis dan sesekali menerima order membuat ilustrasi buku; sedangkan Pak Krupnik adalah seorang penyair terkenal yang juga pengajar sastra di Universitas Harvard. Mereka orang tua yang sangat menoderat. Cara keduanya mendidik anak-anak mereka benar-benar keren. Mereka membebaskan Anastasia (13 tahun) dan adiknya, Sam (2,5 tahun) menjadi diri mereka sendiri. Anak-anak tersebut tumbuh sehat dan bahagia dalam naungan sebuah keluarga yang penuh cinta dan saling menghormati.

Pak dan Bu Krupnik senantiasa memberi dukungan untuk semua hal-hal positif yang ingin dilakukan oleh anak-anak mereka. Seperti kali ini, mereka mengizinkan Anastasia bekerja paruh waktu sebagai pendamping wanita tua demi mendapatkan uang jajan lebih di hari liburnya walaupun ternyata Anastasia hanya dijadikan sebagai seorang pelayan.

Anastasia marah betul pada Ny. Bellingham. Wanita kaya raya yang tinggal tak jauh dari rumah keluarga Krupnik itu telah mempekerjakan Anastasia bukan sebagai pendamping tetapi sebagai pelayan. Anastasia malu sekali. Namun, dengan bijaksana ayah ibunya memberi dukungan menghadapi situasi tidak enak itu. Mereka membesarkan hati anak gadis itu dengan menceritakan kisah “memalukan” yang pernah mereka alami sehingga Anastasia tidak lagi merasa malu. Di dunia setiap orang pernah mengalami hal paling memalukan dalam hidup mereka.

Nyonya Bellingham memiliki seorang cucu perempuan yang sebaya dengan Anastasia dan akan masuk ke kelas tujuh di sekolah yang sama dengan Anastasia. Daphne nama anak perempuan cucu Ny.Bellingham itu. Ny. Bellingham sangat menyayangi cucunya itu. Ia ingin menyelenggarakan pesta ulang tahun Daphne yang ketiga belas. Dan Anastasia dibutuhkan untuk melayani tamu-tamu di pesta tersebut.

Tadinya Anastasia jengkel membayangkan harus melayani seorang anak yang akan menjadi teman sekelasnya. Akan tetapi kiranya Daphne seorang remaja yang menyenangkan untuk dijadikan teman. Alih-alih malu, mereka kemudian malah bersekongkol menggagalkan pesta amal yang akan diadakan Ny. Bellingham seminggu setelah ulang tahun Daphne. Dua remaja putri yang kesal dan sakit hati pada seorang nyonya tua lalu menyusun rencana iseng untuk mengacaukan pesta. Daphne kecewa pada neneknya karena diberi hadiah ulang tahun sebuah boneka. Hanya bayi yang bermain boneka, katanya dengan sewot. Dan Anastasia juga masih belum hilang kesalnya karena dipekerjakan sebagai pelayan.

Tema cerita yang dipilih Lois Lowry adalah kisah yang bisa kita temui sehari-hari: remaja puber yang sibuk dengan penampilan mereka, pertemanan, hubungan tetangga, orang tua yang menjengkelkan….Semua itu hal biasa yang kita lihat dan alami setiap hari. Lois Lowry mengolah bahan-bahan yang tampak remeh itu dengan keahlian seorang penulis sehingga menjelma cerita memikat penuh makna tanpa terkesan menggurui. Aku benar-benar menyukainya. Serial Anastasia ini bukan hanya menghibur tetapi juga sarat pesan moral tentang hubungan antarmanusia, khususnya antara orang tua dan anak-anak mereka.

Humor-humornya segar dan cerdas, mengingatkan aku pada serial tivi Amerika yang populer di tahun 80-an, Growing Pains atau yang sejenisnya. Eh, Anastasia Krupnik ini juga sudah dibuat filmnya di tahun 1999 dengan sutradara Meryl Friedman. Ada gak ya dvd (bajakan)-nya?
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Jan 22, 2009

Endah rated it

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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.

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Jun 16, 2008

Theresa rated it

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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 ...more

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Jul 03, 2007

Rahmadiyanti rated it

Shelves: fiction-and-literature, teen

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...more

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Jul 29, 2011

Catherine Woodman added it

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.

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Jun 08, 2009

Julie rated it

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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.

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Dec 11, 2008

Amanda Jacobs rated it

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This is one of my all-time favorite books. Not only is the character of Anastasia very funny, she is smart and she learns from her mistakes. My favorite part of this book is when she attends poetry class with her father and she dresses up like a beatnik with a black turtleneck and beret. She is always making lists about her likes and dislikes, and she always changes her mind! It's a cute book, I highly recommend it.

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Jan 27, 2010

Sara rated it

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Shelves: kids-and-ya, level-es, level-ms, all-time-favorites

The positive: Anastasia Krupnik was and is one of my favorite female leads of all time. She's smart and funny, but not unrealistic for her age. She has a great family and most of the time she's aware of that fact. When I first read these books, I was ten, and was at the perfect age to connect with Anastasia and her feelings and small misadventures. Now, as a semi-adult, I read this series and see how great her parents were, and how strong their family bonds were, and I get many more of the paren...more

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Feb 03, 2011

Dotty rated it

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Shelves: realistic-fiction

Anastasia has a diary where she is keeping track of the important events in her life as a 10 year old. Events such as finding a wart on her thumb, learning her parents are going to have another child, falling in love, falling out of love. And then there is her hate/love list that keeps changing. All part of her mecrurial personality. Oh yeah, she keeps track of new words she learns.

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Feb 13, 2010

Debbie (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it

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Shelves: children, relationships, schools, 1001

Anastasia and her parents have the kind of relationship I’ve always had with my best and smartest children at school, the back and forth of intellectual (for a ten year old) discourse that has such great appeal for me. Anastasia is having trouble with almost everything in her life, including her grandmother, a soon-to-be-new-brother, her teacher, and even her onerous name.

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Sep 17, 2009

Colin rated it

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Shelves: childhoodfaves, fiction, childrens, series

Um, a precocious girl who writes in a notebook all the time, likes lists and poetry, and uses words like jocund and indefatigable after looking them up in the dictionary, keeping a list of her favorite words in said notebook? No wonder I loved this as a child. Also, the parents cuss and are blase about it. I'm sure that delighted me as well.

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Jan 25, 2011

Sonya Huser rated it

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I loved this book!
I read all the Anastasia books when I was in 4th grade. I thought I'd revisit this and I was surprised to find how much I still love her. The book is 30 years old but somehow doesn't seem dated. Anastasia's parents are sympathetic, smart, and funny. It's nice to read a book about a girl and a family that isn't dysfunctional.

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Nov 23, 2011

Melissa rated it

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Even though I haven't read it since the 6th grade (1995) it was still a good book. And at 100 pages, I remember it taking forever to read the first time around though. While definitely geared at children, I didn't feel silly for reading it. The story dealt with first loves, changes at home, and even death; not too bad for so short a book.

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Dec 22, 2010

Kelli rated it

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Shelves: childrens-stories

Ooh The Anastasia books. I rented this at the library when I was 10 or 11 or so. I clearly remember getting unset when Anastasia's mom gets pregnant. I felt it was unfair to poor Anastasia, being the only child. Its hilarious what we remember about stories. These are great stories for younger girls. Fun for them to read

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Oct 09, 2011

Sandy rated it

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Shelves: childrens, library-books

I don't remember reading this series as a child but my sister loves them and even now that she's older she still reads them over and over again so I thought I would give them a try. I have to say that I really really loved Anastasia. I love the way the author writes and I would definitely read the whole series.

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Jul 08, 2011

Sarah Sullivan rated it

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Shelves: middle-grade

Re-read this whole series in 2 days, and found that it's as good or better as I remember it when I was a kid. So funny. So believable. Such great, wonderful characters. I always loved Anastasia & Sam but reading it as adult I was really struck by what great, multi-faceted characters their parents are.

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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, ...moreTaken 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 seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.
Because my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. I was born in Hawaii, moved from there to New York, spent the years of World War II in my mother’s hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there went to Tokyo when I was eleven. High school was back in New York City, but by the time I went to college (Brown University in Rhode Island), my family was living in Washington, D.C.
I married young. I had just turned nineteen - just finished my sophomore year in college - when I married a Naval officer and continued the odyssey that military life requires. California. Connecticut (a daughter born there). Florida (a son). South Carolina. Finally Cambridge, Massachusetts, when my husband left the service and entered Harvard Law School (another daughter; another son) and then to Maine - by now with four children under the age of five in tow.
My children grew up in Maine. So did I. I returned to college at the University of Southern Maine, got my degree, went to graduate school, and finally began to write professionally, the thing I had dreamed of doing since those childhood years when I had endlessly scribbled stories and poems in notebooks.
After my marriage ended in 1977, when I was forty, I settled into the life I have lived ever since. Today I am back in Cambridge, Massachusetts, living and writing in a house dominated by a very shaggy Tibetan Terrier named Bandit. For a change of scenery Martin and I spend time in Maine, where
we have an old (it was built in 1768!) farmhouse on top of a hill. In Maine
I garden, feed birds, entertain friends, and read..
My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections. A Summer to Die, my first book, was a highly fictionalized retelling of the early death of my sister, and of the effect of such a loss on a family. Number the Stars, set in a different culture and era, tells the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings.
The Giver - and Gathering Blue, and the newest in the trilogy: Messenger - take place against the background of very different cultures and times. Though all three are broader in scope than my earlier books, they nonetheless speak to the same concern: the vital need of people to be aware of their interdependence, not only with each other, but with the world and its environment.
My older son was a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. His death in the cockpit of a warplane tore away a piece of my world. But it left me, too, with a wish to honor him by joining the many others trying to find a way to end conflict on this very fragile earth.
I am a grandmother now. For my own grandchildren - and for all those of their generation - I try, through writing, to convey my passionate awareness that we live intertwined on this planet and that our future depends upon our caring more, and doing more, for one another."(less)

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