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Anastasia Krupnik #7
Anastasia's Chosen Career
Anastasia Krupnik has exactly one week to work on her school assignment called "My Chosen Career." Determined to be a bookstore owner, she must first develop poise and self-confidence. So Anastasia takes the plunge and spends her life savings on a modeling course at Studio Charmante. She has one week to interview a bookstore owner, write a report, and complete her modeling course. Luckily her new friend Henry is with her most of the way. Is Anastasia destined to be a successful bookstore owner or a glamorous model? Only Anastasia has the answers!
142 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
About the author
Lois Lowry
185 books23.2k followersTaken 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."
"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."
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July 23, 2020
YAY ROBERT G IS BACK IN BUISINESS BABY! Robert is the best character, no question!
March 31, 2021
Did I mean to reread this entire book tonight, no I did not. Do I have regrets, no I do not. So sweet and funny and odd, I'm so happy I remembered I'd been rereading this series!
January 1, 2023
3.5 stars rounded down, because I don't think anyone should judge the series by this sample. The pop culture references date it (though maybe a child could read it as historical fiction?) and urban children might very well take offense at how 'exotic' Anastasia finds the city. Still very funny, and I am going to continue to enjoy the series as I can find the books in libraries.
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Reread from Little Free Library cuz I didn't remember it. This time what bothered me is how Mrs. Krupnik is such a model housewife - supposedly she illustrates children's books but that never comes up. And how can the family live on her income plus that of a poetry professor? (At least, I think he's a professor. They certainly couldn't live on just royalties.) Also, there's too much emphasis on looks.
But read as HF it does have moments of insight and plenty of humor.
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Reread from Little Free Library cuz I didn't remember it. This time what bothered me is how Mrs. Krupnik is such a model housewife - supposedly she illustrates children's books but that never comes up. And how can the family live on her income plus that of a poetry professor? (At least, I think he's a professor. They certainly couldn't live on just royalties.) Also, there's too much emphasis on looks.
But read as HF it does have moments of insight and plenty of humor.
December 11, 2023
Delightful. I want to go to modeling school and learn poise and have friends like Henry and be a bookstore owner and hang out in Boston.
"Stick it in your ear, turkey."
"Stick it in your ear, turkey."
July 30, 2017
This is the seventh of nine books in the Anastasia Krupnik series, and I think I'm going to be a little sad when I've read them all: they're such fun middle-grade/early YA reads, and this one, while not my favorite, was still pleasing. Anastasia is thirteen and is bummed that she doesn't get to go skiing over winter break: it seems like all of her friends are off on ski trips (well, except for Sonya, who is unfortunately stuck going to some weight loss program and being told to eat half an apple for "dessert" - blergh) while Anastasia's stuck at home. She has nothing to do over break except a school paper on the topic of her "chosen career," and she's not really looking forward to it, until she has a brilliant idea: maybe she can convince her parents to let her go to a week-long modeling course for junior high students. In her head, of course, "model" is her chosen career, but she knows her parents aren't going to be cool with that, so she tells them she wants to be a bookstore owner: the modeling course is just because anyone being entrepreneurial needs poise and confidence, right?
So her parents agree she can take the course, and her dad also arranges for her to interview a Boston bookstore owner he knows: it may not be skiing, but Anastasia's excited. The modeling school turns out not to be as glamorous as Anastasia's visions of it, and she keeps forgetting to actually interview the bookstore owner (though she visits her more than once), and oh, also, the hopelessly uncool boy from her old school who totally used to have a crush on her is signed up for the modeling class, too: augh. But it's OK because visiting a bookstore owner and her store is interesting, and Anastasia makes a new friend in modeling class: Henry Peabody ("Short for Henrietta. But if you call me that, you die") who is gorgeous (though she doesn't initially realize it) and also smart/kind/fun. I like Henry's no-nonsense feminism (she tells Anastasia that when they grow up, they can get married if they want, but they don't need husbands), but as always, Anastasia herself is what makes this book as fun as it is. I love the way we get to see her rewrites of her school assignment in progress as the week progresses, and I love her ridiculous overactive imagination: she's always thinking about something, whether she's pondering changing her name to "Spike" because she thinks the matching k-sounds in "Spike Krupnik" are cool, or worrying about being late (or, possibly worse, early) to modeling school on the first day, or getting bizarrely nervous about Henry's dad (who's a police officer) driving her home after she has dinner with the Peabody family (because he's driving her home on the way to work, and what if he has to, like, capture a criminal with her in the car?). And, I mean, how could I not love/relate to a character who's described like this?
So her parents agree she can take the course, and her dad also arranges for her to interview a Boston bookstore owner he knows: it may not be skiing, but Anastasia's excited. The modeling school turns out not to be as glamorous as Anastasia's visions of it, and she keeps forgetting to actually interview the bookstore owner (though she visits her more than once), and oh, also, the hopelessly uncool boy from her old school who totally used to have a crush on her is signed up for the modeling class, too: augh. But it's OK because visiting a bookstore owner and her store is interesting, and Anastasia makes a new friend in modeling class: Henry Peabody ("Short for Henrietta. But if you call me that, you die") who is gorgeous (though she doesn't initially realize it) and also smart/kind/fun. I like Henry's no-nonsense feminism (she tells Anastasia that when they grow up, they can get married if they want, but they don't need husbands), but as always, Anastasia herself is what makes this book as fun as it is. I love the way we get to see her rewrites of her school assignment in progress as the week progresses, and I love her ridiculous overactive imagination: she's always thinking about something, whether she's pondering changing her name to "Spike" because she thinks the matching k-sounds in "Spike Krupnik" are cool, or worrying about being late (or, possibly worse, early) to modeling school on the first day, or getting bizarrely nervous about Henry's dad (who's a police officer) driving her home after she has dinner with the Peabody family (because he's driving her home on the way to work, and what if he has to, like, capture a criminal with her in the car?). And, I mean, how could I not love/relate to a character who's described like this?
Bookstores were among Anastasia's favorite places; maybe they were even first on her list, or at least tied for first with libraries. She sometimes thought that she would like to live in a library, not even having a kitchen—just going out to eat, and spending all the rest of her life surrounded by books. (67-68)
December 5, 2022
Oh, Anastasia. I was more you than any other literary heroine in my awkward youth. You are an odd duck, but smart and usually kind. You try hard.
This one is good because it has Henry and quirky Robert and the bookstore owner is is an amazing person but a really horrible business owner.
This has a few dated references, but overall, it holds up pretty well. Except for the fat-shaming stuff. That was crappy even back then.
This one is good because it has Henry and quirky Robert and the bookstore owner is is an amazing person but a really horrible business owner.
This has a few dated references, but overall, it holds up pretty well. Except for the fat-shaming stuff. That was crappy even back then.
January 29, 2023
3.5
I don't think this book represents the rest of the Anastasia series well, mainly because you get to spend less time with the Krupniks and Anastasia's family is usually particularly interesting. During their few appearances in this one they feel flat, and much more conventional than usual.
As part of a project, Anastasia spends a week at some weird modelling school, with fat-shaming in full swing and a low budget America's Next Top Model vibe, where this time the dramatic haircuts go down tear-free and Anastasia longs to have the face shape or ''exquisite ears'' to pull one off. She also spends her lunch breaks doing work experience at a bookshop. As a former bookseller I can say that Lowry really does capture the plight of the average book-lover, who tends to be sympathetic, good-natured and lenient, when different skills are needed for running a bookshop. Ultimately a bookshop is a business and suited to a more practical, hard-nosed personality.
Also Anastasia's old friend Robert Giannini reappears in this, showing his empathy and understanding about mental health in a particularly moving scene. I do find it refreshing that Anastasia, despite being the protagonist, isn't the star of this book. She isn't the one making waves with their compassion towards others, like Robert, and she doesn't excel at modelling which she is just o.k. at , whilst her friend Henrietta steals the show instead. She does, however, prove herself to have a strong business mind and I feel that her ambitious nature will develop over the last two books.
I don't think this book represents the rest of the Anastasia series well, mainly because you get to spend less time with the Krupniks and Anastasia's family is usually particularly interesting. During their few appearances in this one they feel flat, and much more conventional than usual.
As part of a project, Anastasia spends a week at some weird modelling school, with fat-shaming in full swing and a low budget America's Next Top Model vibe, where this time the dramatic haircuts go down tear-free and Anastasia longs to have the face shape or ''exquisite ears'' to pull one off. She also spends her lunch breaks doing work experience at a bookshop. As a former bookseller I can say that Lowry really does capture the plight of the average book-lover, who tends to be sympathetic, good-natured and lenient, when different skills are needed for running a bookshop. Ultimately a bookshop is a business and suited to a more practical, hard-nosed personality.
Also Anastasia's old friend Robert Giannini reappears in this, showing his empathy and understanding about mental health in a particularly moving scene. I do find it refreshing that Anastasia, despite being the protagonist, isn't the star of this book. She isn't the one making waves with their compassion towards others, like Robert, and she doesn't excel at modelling which she is just o.k. at , whilst her friend Henrietta steals the show instead. She does, however, prove herself to have a strong business mind and I feel that her ambitious nature will develop over the last two books.
September 2, 2008
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.
In this one Anastasia takes a modeling course, and unlike most books where the character would do this and become a star and/or excel at the class, it seemed like the real star of the show was another girl whose talent Anastasia was a bit jealous of but really respected. How Anastasia decides a modeling course is integral to her future career as a bookstore owner is quite amusing. . . .
In this one Anastasia takes a modeling course, and unlike most books where the character would do this and become a star and/or excel at the class, it seemed like the real star of the show was another girl whose talent Anastasia was a bit jealous of but really respected. How Anastasia decides a modeling course is integral to her future career as a bookstore owner is quite amusing. . . .
January 14, 2018
Anastasia attends modeling school and realizes she wants to be a bookstore owner instead.
Anastasia is such a relatable character that these books are fun. When the modeling school tells her to walk like an animal, she attempts a lioness but realizes she's more of a giraffe. Her family are supportive but believable and she makes some new friends, including a bookstore owner who is bad at it because she gives away too many books. I'll be reading the next in the series.
Anastasia is such a relatable character that these books are fun. When the modeling school tells her to walk like an animal, she attempts a lioness but realizes she's more of a giraffe. Her family are supportive but believable and she makes some new friends, including a bookstore owner who is bad at it because she gives away too many books. I'll be reading the next in the series.
April 9, 2020
Anastasia Krupnik can’t help being awed at the idea of modeling school. After all, with a “neck like a giraffe”, skinny appearance, and tangled long hair, she feels that if anyone needed to learn how to be more like a model, it’s her. Modeling school is in Boston, and after Anastasia finally convinces her parents to let her go by her self, she’s off on an adventure. An adventure she knew she needed but in different ways than she expected. A week at modeling school can really change you, and Anastasia expects to look different, sound different, and feel different when it’s over. But not only does Anastasia have to go to modeling school for a week, but she also has to complete a school assignment called “My Chosen Career”. Anastasia decides, mostly to just save time, that she wants to be a bookstore owner when she grows up, and what better place to interview a bookstore owner than Boston Massachusetts? So, now Anastasia has to complete modeling school, (she already payed her whole life’s savings to go), AND interview a book store owner at the same time. At modeling school she made new friends, (including a sassy and good—looking African American girl named Henry and a bookstore owner with a heart of gold but lacking business sense,) got a new and mature haircut, ran into someone that she had hoped she’d never have to see again, and realized that no person is able to be completely good but no person is able to be completely bad, and that’s okay. Modeling school changed Anastasia in ways she never expected to be changed, and it was good changes, and as for the interview with the bookstore owner, she ended up making a new friend out of her, but also ended up answering most of the interview questions herself.
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January 15, 2021Anastasia has an incredibly honest voice. She tells it like it is, and therefore occasionally comes across as naive or as a jerk. But she (mostly) learns and grows and I can appreciate that.
Best part of this book: when Robert Giannini points out that a lot of times people avoid talking about others’ problems not because they don’t care, but because it’s awkward. And he just comes out and says we should talk about these things — people need to, awkward or not.
Second best parts of the book: the book seller storyline, and Henry. Anastasia meets the worst book seller in the world, who is simply too generous to make a living that way, but her husband is super wealthy so they make it work. Henry becomes Anastasia’s best friend in her weeklong modeling class, and despite the aura of exoticism surrounding her Blackness, I appreciated her inclusion in the storyline.
Worst bits: the gently persistent fat shaming that is in some ways simply dated ‘80s attitudes, but is in reality a persistent kind of discrimination that I wish we as a society could grow out of.
Best part of this book: when Robert Giannini points out that a lot of times people avoid talking about others’ problems not because they don’t care, but because it’s awkward. And he just comes out and says we should talk about these things — people need to, awkward or not.
Second best parts of the book: the book seller storyline, and Henry. Anastasia meets the worst book seller in the world, who is simply too generous to make a living that way, but her husband is super wealthy so they make it work. Henry becomes Anastasia’s best friend in her weeklong modeling class, and despite the aura of exoticism surrounding her Blackness, I appreciated her inclusion in the storyline.
Worst bits: the gently persistent fat shaming that is in some ways simply dated ‘80s attitudes, but is in reality a persistent kind of discrimination that I wish we as a society could grow out of.
April 6, 2024
I’m still waiting for my copy of book number 8 to arrive so I had every intention of reading this one slowly…but once I pick Anastasia up, there’s no putting her down again!
There’s a fair bit of fat-shaming in these books (especially this one, given its modelling theme) but otherwise they have aged pretty well. There are definitely parts that would be worded differently if being published today, but the overall ethos of the books and their characters is good and wholesome and inclusive. I really like the fact that Anastasia and her family sometimes have a right good moan about people and that nobody is safe. 😂 Anastasia can absolutely CRINGE over someone’s style/actions without writing that person off - it’s a good balance, I think.
Back in the early nineties I really wanted to be Anastasia’s friend and in 2024 I still do, only now I also want to be friends with her mum! (I was working out how old Anastasia’s parents would be now and I wanted to cry because Myron would probably be dead 😭 What are these books doing to me?!)
There’s a fair bit of fat-shaming in these books (especially this one, given its modelling theme) but otherwise they have aged pretty well. There are definitely parts that would be worded differently if being published today, but the overall ethos of the books and their characters is good and wholesome and inclusive. I really like the fact that Anastasia and her family sometimes have a right good moan about people and that nobody is safe. 😂 Anastasia can absolutely CRINGE over someone’s style/actions without writing that person off - it’s a good balance, I think.
Back in the early nineties I really wanted to be Anastasia’s friend and in 2024 I still do, only now I also want to be friends with her mum! (I was working out how old Anastasia’s parents would be now and I wanted to cry because Myron would probably be dead 😭 What are these books doing to me?!)
September 16, 2023
I've never read this series - the only Lois Lowry I know is the Giver series. I found this in a Little Free Library and when I saw that Anastasia's dream career was, at least nominally, a bookstore owner, and this was set in Boston, I was like, sign me up. It was a pretty good read. I'm not sure about all the emphasis on the children's weight though. That wouldn't fly in a current book. But I enjoyed how bookish and kind Anastasia is. Her essay beginnings were all pretty good too.
I thought it was fairly realistic about bookstore economics on the one hand (the bookstore owner she interviews basically admits she's funded by her rich husband), but Anastasia's confidence about her possible career was a bit unrealistic in the end. I do wish we still had so many small independent bookstores in Boston.
I thought it was fairly realistic about bookstore economics on the one hand (the bookstore owner she interviews basically admits she's funded by her rich husband), but Anastasia's confidence about her possible career was a bit unrealistic in the end. I do wish we still had so many small independent bookstores in Boston.
September 26, 2022
Yep, this one rated four stars from me for personal reasons. What Anastasia experiences in this novel brought back a ton of memories of a time in my youth when I went on a similar adventure. I loved the feeling of nostalgia brought on by this story. And one of the overriding themes is one that I am focused on right now and I appreciated how it was presented. This quote gives a glimpse into that theme...
"No, WAIT!" Robert said angrily. "Let us finish. That's the whole trouble - people get embarrassed about other people's problems, so they don't have anybody to talk to - because they won't LISTEN - then the problems STAY."
"No, WAIT!" Robert said angrily. "Let us finish. That's the whole trouble - people get embarrassed about other people's problems, so they don't have anybody to talk to - because they won't LISTEN - then the problems STAY."
April 9, 2023
This book was way more charming than I remembered it to be and I loved it as a child to the point I reread it multiple times growing up. There were some eyebrow-raising moments like Henry and Anastasia talking about older men looking at them and commenting about Bambie with an 'e's' weight. But it's still a capsule of the time it was written in. Anyway, I liked it a lot and the way they handled other aspects of the story. Also, I enjoy how Anastasia wasn't the most beautiful in the book and she didn't excel at everything she set out to do in the book. She wasn't a supermodel, she was just there to have a good time and learn poise.
10/10 glad I reread it.
10/10 glad I reread it.
February 17, 2021
This book might've been my favorite in the series. Anastasia has a project in class where she has to interview someone who has her dream job. She puts down bookstore owner, but she also ends up going to model school on Saturdays. She has to make time to interview the owner and go to modeling school in Boston once a week! At modeling school, she meets a girl her age named Henrietta, but she liked to be called Henry. She also sees an annoying boy that was in her fourth grade class when she lived in Boston, before moving to Cambridge.
August 23, 2017
It was so much fun to revisit one of my favorite series after some time away from The Krupniks -- the characters seemed just as real and the dialogue was as sharp as ever. I was around Anastasia's age when this was published and I remember my parents watching Hill Street Blues and Nova! Lowry will always be one of our most important American writers.
January 29, 2018
I honestly love all of the Anastasia books. They are funny, and relatable, and real and great.
This one is one of my favourites. The whole idea of the modeling school, her before-its-time idea to name a bookstore Chapters, and the complexity of the friends she meets in this one make it a great story
This one is one of my favourites. The whole idea of the modeling school, her before-its-time idea to name a bookstore Chapters, and the complexity of the friends she meets in this one make it a great story
February 20, 2024
I wanna zone out to zzz. I still don’t know why Anesthesia hates Robin and said that Page was the worst book store owner to her parents after she gifted her some book or something like. Felt a ping of toxic attitude I felt she possessed. The story didn’t even have a turning point or even a conflict.
March 25, 2025
Still some childish shenanigans throughout the story, but there are some more mature moments in this one compared to the others I have read so far. You can definitely tell this is from the 80s/90s....Do the younger gens even know what it's like to wear shoulder pads or have they ever seen a tape recorder, those really big ones for VHS tapes? 3.5☆
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February 15, 2026"i know a girl named nicky at nursery school," said sam, "but i hate her."
"don't say 'hate,' sweetie," mrs. krupnik told him. "it's okay to say that you don't care much for her, but 'hate' isn't a nice word."
sam scowled. "i know a girl named nicky at nursery school," he repeated, "and i don't care for her so much that i would like to run over her with a very big truck.”
"don't say 'hate,' sweetie," mrs. krupnik told him. "it's okay to say that you don't care much for her, but 'hate' isn't a nice word."
sam scowled. "i know a girl named nicky at nursery school," he repeated, "and i don't care for her so much that i would like to run over her with a very big truck.”
November 9, 2024
Lots to love, but a lot more fatphobia/body-shaming with the whole “modeling” story line, and very little of the Krupnik family. But the return of Robert is an absolute gem, as is her new friend Henry.
January 26, 2020
A light, enjoyable read.
June 28, 2020
Isaac was thrilled to see the triumphant return of Robert Giannini!!
September 18, 2021
How I love this girl! Anastasia can be so kind, but also a real pain. Just like any teenager. Such a fun read! I especially loved Henry.
November 21, 2021
So fun, I appreciated the bookstore and the Boston-based content.
December 21, 2023
Wasn't as funny as previous ones, but still good. I didn't like the intense fat shaming either, but to be fair that's kind of how people spoke at that time.
January 26, 2025
This book was so much fun to read... Anastasia is such an odd, quirky character.
April 27, 2025
Some very nice moments and also some dated choices
March 15, 2022
This is another heartwarming, laugh out loud book in the series. It has a surprisingly serious plot twist near the end. It was great to spend time with these books again.
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