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Anastasia Again! (An Anastasia Krupnik story) Paperback – January 6, 2015
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Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs.
- Reading age10 - 12 years
- Print length192 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level5 - 7
- Lexile measure700L
- Dimensions5.13 x 0.49 x 7.63 inches
- Publication dateJanuary 6, 2015
- ISBN-100544336674
- ISBN-13978-0544336674
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About the Author
Lois Lowry is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver.
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- Publisher : Clarion Books; Reprint edition (January 6, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 192 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0544336674
- ISBN-13 : 978-0544336674
- Reading age : 10 - 12 years
- Lexile measure : 700L
- Grade level : 5 - 7
- Item Weight : 5.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.13 x 0.49 x 7.63 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #816,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,014 in Children's Parents Books
- #3,477 in Children's Books on Girls' & Women's Issues
- #5,609 in Children's Books on Emotions & Feelings (Books)
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About the author
Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned her attention to writing. She is the author of more than forty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Several books have been adapted to film and stage, and THE GIVER has become an opera. Her newest book, ON THE HORIZON, is a collection of memories and images from Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and post-war Japan. A mother and grandmother, Ms. Lowry divides her time between Maine and Florida. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com
author interview
A CONVERSATION WITH LOIS LOWRY ABOUT THE GIVER
Q. When did you know you wanted to become a writer?
A. I cannot remember ever not wanting to be a writer.
Q. What inspired you to write The Giver?
A. Kids always ask what inspired me to write a particular book or how did I get an idea for a particular book, and often it’s very easy to answer that because books like the Anastasia books come from a specific thing; some little event triggers an idea. And some, like Number the Stars, rely on real history. But a book like The Giver is a much more complicated book, and therefore it comes from much more complicated places—and many of them are probably things that I don’t even recognize myself anymore, if I ever did. So it’s not an easy question to answer.
I will say that the whole concept of memory is one that interests me a great deal. I’m not sure why that is, but I’ve always been fascinated by the thought of what memory is and what it does and how it works and what we learn from it. And so I think probably that interest of my own and that particular subject was the origin, one of many, of The Giver.
Q. How did you decide what Jonas should take on his journey?
A. Why does Jonas take what he does on his journey? He doesn’t have much time when he sets out. He originally plans to make the trip farther along in time, and he plans to prepare for it better. But then, because of circumstances, he has to set out in a very hasty fashion. So what he chooses is out of necessity. He takes food because he needs to survive. He takes the bicycle because he needs to hurry and the bike is faster than legs. And he takes the baby because he is going out to create a future. Babies—and children—always represent the future. Jonas takes the baby, Gabriel, because he loves him and wants to save him, but he takes the baby also in order to begin again with a new life.
Q. When you wrote the ending, were you afraid some readers would want more details or did you want to leave the ending open to individual interpretation?
A. Many kids want a more specific ending to The Giver. Some write, or ask me when they see me, to spell it out exactly. And I don’t do that. And the reason is because The Giver is many things to many different people. People bring to it their own complicated beliefs and hopes and dreams and fears and all of that. So I don’t want to put my own feelings into it, my own beliefs, and ruin that for people who create their own endings in their minds.
Q. Is it an optimistic ending? Does Jonas survive?
A. I will say that I find it an optimistic ending. How could it not be an optimistic ending, a happy ending, when that house is there with its lights on and music is playing? So I’m always kind of surprised and disappointed when some people tell me that they think the boy and the baby just die. I don’t think they die. What form their new life takes is something I like people to figure out for themselves. And each person will give it a different ending. I think they’re out there somewhere and I think that their life has changed and their life is happy, and I would like to think that’s true for the people they left behind as well.
Q. In what way is your book Gathering Blue a companion to The Giver?
A. Gathering Blue postulates a world of the future, as The Giver does. I simply created a different kind of world, one that had regressed instead of leaping forward technologically as the world of The Giver has. It was fascinating to explore the savagery of such a world. I began to feel that maybe it coexisted with Jonas’s world . . . and that therefore Jonas could be a part of it in a tangential way. So there is a reference to a boy with light eyes at the end of Gathering Blue. Originally I thought he could be either Jonas or not, as the reader chose. But since then I have published two more books—Messenger, and Son—which complete The Giver Quartet and make clear that the light-eyed boy is, indeed. Jonas. In the book Son readers will find out what became of all their favorite characters: Jonas, Gabe, and Kira as well, from Gathering Blue. And there are some new characters—most especially Claire, who is fourteen at the beginning of Son— whom I hope they will grow to love.
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2022This was a gift for my granddaughter as she was relocating and enrolling in a new school
- Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2022So happy to share these with my 9-year-old niece who is devouring series.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2016I read this book for the first time when I was around 10 years old and it was great to read it again with my daughter, who is 8. Anastasia is a funny and honest character who really comes across as a 12-13 year old girl. The book does mention sex once or twice in passing. (Anastasia tells her mom that her story needs more sex in it, for example.)
- Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2013Anastasia is going to move from the city to the suburbs. She's horrified thinking of a future involving TV dinners, homes that all look the same, and other boring suburban things. How could her parents do this to her? They're going to drag her away from the home she loves to stick her in the middle of nowhere!
The annoying boy in her life seems to be smitten with her, but the feeling isn't mutual...at least there's a new boy in her suburban neighborhood who's cute and as tall as she is (she's always worrying about her height). Her new house also has a possible witch next door, and she and her brother Sam are going to investigate. Maybe living in the suburbs won't be as bad as she thought it would be.
I enjoyed this book because I could relate to moving from a big city to the suburbs in my preteen years. Anastasia's thoughts and feelings felt so real in that aspect. She's neurotic, intellectual, and melodramatic, but still likable. I read several of the books in the middle of the series, so it was interesting to read an earlier Anastasia book.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2020Children and Adults will love this story. Lois Lowry has a wonderful way with words and creating hilarious situations for Anastasia’s imaginative mind to wonder and sometimes worry about.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2015I've read this book 4 times and I still love it! I would recomend it to young girls of 12-15 who would love it!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍👍👍👍👍
- Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2014After reading the original Anastasia book (which I read for its place on the banned books list, the same reason I continued with the second book), I had fairly high expectations for this sequel, and while the book wasn't entirely unenjoyable, it certainly fell short of the original.
Now a few years older, Anastasia, her parents, and her little brother, Sam, are a bit cramped in their apartment. Despite some misgivings on Anastasia's part (relating to her idea of what suburbs people act like), they buy a house and relocate. Which, of course, means taking Anastasia away from her few friends.
This book is kept from typical early chapter book moving angst by the addition of a crotchety neighbor, Gertrude Stein, who has been a virtual shut-in since her failed romance with her childhood neighbor and since her husband ran off many years before. Anastasia make Gertrude her project, forcing her out of her comfort zone and back into society, while at the same time the simple passage of time does the same to Anastasia, who begins to meet neighbors her age.
If your child finished the first Anastasia book and is still interested in her life, then the entire Anastasia series will be a great boon. However, while I had made plans to read the entire series myself, I think I've seen enough to pass on the rest. They aren't bad. They're just really meant for smaller kids.
Lois Lowry writes plenty of other books with an appeal for all ages ("The Giver" being the obvious example), but this book is probably best left to the kids for which it was written.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2015Good book