Status
Available
Local notes
PB Low
Collection
Series
Genres
Publication
Yearling (1983), Edition: Reprint, 160 pages
Description
Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired instead to be a maid. Sequel to "Anastasia again."
Subjects
Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 1986)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Middle Grade — 1987)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 1989)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
160 p.; 5.25 inches
User reviews
LibraryThing member Treesa
Ths is a very neat children's novel which features an Anastasia Krupnik as the protagonist. She's twelve and poor therefore desirous of paid employment. She, her parents and brother Sam are such a gorgeous family. This novel also has a moral whch is really well done, not too obvious. Overall it is
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very hilarious, especially for adults readers. It is probably worth reading other titles by this author. Show Less
LibraryThing member EmScape
Anastasia is back with another hilarious caper. This time she decides to get a job as a "companion to a wealthy, elderly woman." Instead, she is hired as a maid. Hi-jinks ensue.
Anastasia continues to be a very realistic character, surrounded by wacky secondary characters, getting into odd
Anastasia continues to be a very realistic character, surrounded by wacky secondary characters, getting into odd
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situations, but learning lessons very common to pre-teens. Recommended. Show Less
LibraryThing member satyridae
Not so clear and tender as the first two, but still warm and sweet.
LibraryThing member fingerpost
Anastasia gets her first job. What she thinks she's getting is being a "companion" to a wealthy elderly woman. What she actually gets is being a maid. She despises her employer, Mrs. Bellingham, but it turns out that Mrs. Bellingham has a granddaughter, Daphne, who is just Anastasia's age. And
Mixed in with this story is a serious injury to Anastasia's little brother, Sam, and a trip to the old neighborhood where her father grew up.
Anastasia's parents are still two of the most wonderful parents in YA literature.
All in all, a cute, funny, light hearted story, as the previous books were.
Note: Very small, but worth noting this complaint... Very close together, we learn that Daphne has mowed a Nazi swastika into the grass of her front yard, just to shock her parents, and that in playing a game of "would you rather" one of the options Anastasia's mother gave her was "Would you rather join the Ku Klux Klan, or..." These two bits, intended as shock-humor for the pre-teen audience, don't fare well today, and shouldn't have when the book was written (1982). Nazis and the Klan are simply not things to make jokes about... they are currently active terrorist groups, both with extreme racist philosophies. I wish Lowry had left these brief bits out and substituted something else.
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she's a major trouble maker. But all the same, they become friends.Mixed in with this story is a serious injury to Anastasia's little brother, Sam, and a trip to the old neighborhood where her father grew up.
Anastasia's parents are still two of the most wonderful parents in YA literature.
All in all, a cute, funny, light hearted story, as the previous books were.
Note: Very small, but worth noting this complaint... Very close together, we learn that Daphne has mowed a Nazi swastika into the grass of her front yard, just to shock her parents, and that in playing a game of "would you rather" one of the options Anastasia's mother gave her was "Would you rather join the Ku Klux Klan, or..." These two bits, intended as shock-humor for the pre-teen audience, don't fare well today, and shouldn't have when the book was written (1982). Nazis and the Klan are simply not things to make jokes about... they are currently active terrorist groups, both with extreme racist philosophies. I wish Lowry had left these brief bits out and substituted something else.
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