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Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up as her thirteenth year involves her in conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowered uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.Tags
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In Anastasia's 7th grade gym class, under the tutelage of the amazing kind and glamorous Wilhelmina Willoughby, she is the only girl who can't climb the rope to the gym ceiling. Try as she might, she just dangles. That doesn't sound like much to build a novel on, and it isn't. This one is short, even for an Anastasia book, and doesn't have much point beyond Anastasia's working towards the goal of climbing the rope.
She also would like to set her uncle (whose wife ~just~ died) up with some eligible woman she knows. Any one will do. Kind of a strange and uncaring subplot.
Nonetheless, it's an enjoyable enough quick little read, because Anastasia herself is still delightful, as is her family, though they take a smaller role in this volume.
She also would like to set her uncle (whose wife ~just~ died) up with some eligible woman she knows. Any one will do. Kind of a strange and uncaring subplot.
Nonetheless, it's an enjoyable enough quick little read, because Anastasia herself is still delightful, as is her family, though they take a smaller role in this volume.
Anastasia decidedly does not have the answers. Anastasia's Aunt Rose dies, which is dealt with rather insensitively and cavalierly by both the author and her characters, and Uncle George comes to stay with the Krupniks for a while. Anastasia wastes no time in trying to set him up with eligible females. Another subplot to the story is that most of the females Anastasia knows are man-less, something Anastasia sees as quite the travesty. For such a notably humanist author, this is a rather sexist worldview. The final thread of the story is that Anastasia is incapable of climbing a rope in gym class. This is prominent on the cover of every edition of this book, but largely a non-story. Anastasia can't climb a rope. She practices quite a show more lot, then learns to climb the rope. Obviously.
Really, as much as I like the Anastasia books, I was not pleased with this one at all. show less
Really, as much as I like the Anastasia books, I was not pleased with this one at all. show less
Growing up, the closest thing to these that I had access to was Trixie Belden. But the Anastasia books are even better than Naylor's Alice books, imo. More emphasis on humor, less on angst. Of course no one library has them all anymore, but I'll keep looking.
Cute but not overly engaging. I like the series, still.
Ah, the one with the dastardly Sal Monella.
This was probably my favorite Anastasia book when I was a kid.
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Lois Lowry (nee Lois Ann Hammersberg) was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii. She was educated at both Brown University and the University of Southern Maine. Before becoming an author, she worked as a photographer and a freelance journalist. Her first book, A Summer to Die, was published in 1977. Since then she has written over 30 books show more for young adults including Gathering Blue, Messenger, the Anastasia Krupnik series, and Son. She has received numerous awards including: The New York Times Best Seller,the International Reading Association's Children's Literature Award, the American Library Association Notable Book Award Citation and two Newberry Medals for Number the Stars in 1990, and The Giver in 1993. She was also awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by Brown University in 2014. The Giver is part of a Quartet of books; it is the first book, followed by Gathering Blue, messenger and Son. The Giver has been met with a diversity of reactions from schools in America, some of which have adopted it as a part of the mandatory curriculum, while others have prohibited the book's inclusion in classroom studies. It was also made into a feature film of the same name released in 2014. Lois Lowry also made the Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2016 finalists in the author category. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Anastasia has the Answers
- Original publication date
- 1986
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- Kids, Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PZ7 .L9673 .A — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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