Anastasia at This Address

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"SWM, 28, boyish charm, inherited wealth, looking for tall young woman, nonsmoker, to share Caribbean vacations, reruns of Casablanca, and romance." When thirteen-year-old Anastasia Krupnic sees this ad in a personal column, she decides to write back, even though it means stretching the truth more than a little bit. So what if her best friends have given up on boys. Anastasia is ready for romance. But is she ready for a pen pal who makes a shocking request? He wants to meet her!

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"SWM, 28, boyish charm, inherited wealth, looking for tall young woman, nonsmoker, to share Caribbean vacations, reruns of Casablanca, and romance." When thirteen-year-old Anastasia Krupnic sees this ad in a personal column, she decides to write back, even though it means stretching the truth more than a little bit. So what if her best friends have given up on boys. Anastasia is ready for romance. But is she ready for a pen pal who makes a shocking request? He wants to meet her!

Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding.

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
The Newbery Medalist's irrepressible heroine is in top form as, deciding she's ready for romance, she answers a personals ad--with typically hilarious results. Ages 9-12. (Aug.)
Children's Literature - Jan Lieberman
At 13, Anastasia longs for a bit of romance in her life. What can be safer than corresponding secretly with an older man, 28, whose interests are similar to yours? It can lead to complications when you send him an old photo of your mom. There are plenty of laughs. To hide her own identity, she signs herself as SWIFTY, an acronym whose meaning changes with each letter. Her letter to SWM, (single, white, male) are priceless. 1992 (orig.
School Library Journal
Gr 5-7-- Look out world--Anastasia is a teenager! At 13, she has renounced boys, but not men. Using a code name, SWIFTY, Anastasia has answered a personals ad in the New York Review of Books . Her correspondence frames the story, which also involves her participation as a junior bridesmaid in a wedding. It is Sam, Anastasia's three-year-old brother, who is responsible for the wedding finale that hinges on a word play. The warmth and humor readers have come to expect are present in ample measure here. New fans of Anastasia, who question Sam's precociousness, can be happily referred to All About Sam (Houghton, 1988). As for Anastasia, the long hand of coincidence brings her correspondence to a timely end. --Amy Kellman, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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"Anastasia herself is at her best here: headstrong, inventive, endearing, and irrepressible, though not above learning from her mistakes." Publishers Weekly
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780440406525
  • Publisher: Random House Children's Books
  • Publication date: 7/28/1992
  • Series: Anastasia Krupnik Series
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 129
  • Sales rank: 543,431
  • Age range: 8 - 12 Years
  • Lexile: 730L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.27 (w) x 7.63 (h) x 0.34 (d)

Meet the Author

Lois Lowry

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 several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty 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. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and an 1840s farmhouse in Maine. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 28, 2005

    A good and funny book, but needs to be more realistic!

    I liked this book, it was very funny and interesting, but one thing. Anastasia is too naive and Sam is too smart! I'm an eleven year old and I know. In this book, Anastasia acts exactly the same as she did when she was ten in her first book. She also seems to still have the same intelligence, too. I am much smarter than her, and so is the dumbest kid in my class. Also, Sam is too smart! He is two or three in that book, and he has a complete vocabulary. Though there are many three year olds who can talk just as well, if Anastasia is very dumb and Sam is very smart, it just doesn't work out. But aside from that, this is a great book!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 1, 2003

    Streching the truth

    swm,28, is looking for a tall young woman, nonesmoker to share Caribean vactions with. Anastasia streches the turth and it turns out that one of her friends uncle is swm.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 17, 2000

    A GREAT BOOK!!!!!!!!!

    I'm insipered by Lois Lowry because I'm about to become a writer too. I love the way she makes Anastasia's personatlity. Its A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!!!! Especially for reading OUT LOUD. I'm dissapointed because it's the last book in the Anastasia Series and I'm eager to read more about Anastasia!! A must read!!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 16, 2012

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    GREAT BOOK

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