![]() ![]() I remember the feelings of being six, or ten, or thirteen. But my memories seem to work in a different way. Oh, sure, lots of people remember the name of their sixth grade teacher or what kind of car their father drove in the 1960s. I’ve always felt that the reason I am comfortable writing for a young audience is because I remember being young. ![]() I had left them behind and now I wanted them back. ![]() It had been fun hanging out with the Krupnik family. It gradually became clear that young readers felt that way about Anastasia, and-well, okay, I confess-I did too. And I remembered, from my own reading life as a kid, that when I liked a character (even Nancy Drew, who-let’s face it-was not a character with a great deal of depth or a rich inner life), I wanted more and more about her. When I began writing, way back in the 1970s, about a feisty, opinionated, endearing young girl named Anastasia Krupnik, I didn’t anticipate more than one book. Summary: Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family’s decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs. The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1981.įor information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016. ![]()
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