Anastasia at This Address by Lois Lowry

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Anastasia Krupnik answers a personal ad, and by stretching the truth, finds herself in quite a predicament when the special "he" wants to meet her.

Publishers 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.)

"Anastasia herself is at her best here: headstrong, inventive, endearing, and irrepressible, though not above learning from her mistakes."

Children's Literature

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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