Anastasia's Chosen Career
- Anastasia's Chosen Career
"Anastasia's Chosen Career" (1987) is a young-adult novel by Lois Lowry. It is part of a series of books that Lowry wrote about Anastasia and her younger brother Sam.
Plot summary
Anastasia Krupnik is back, and she's agonizing again. A seventh-grade assignment requires her to choose a future career. How can you know, when you're thirteen, what you're going to be when you're grown up? And how can you prepare for a real life career when you can't even prepare a term paper without ten or twelve false starts?
Self-confidence is what Anastasia needs. Where to find it? Studio Charmante, of course.
Lois Lowry's irrepressible Anastasia Krupnik hits the world of the modeling school, collecting a unique cast of characters along the way. This time she pairs up with a dazzling new friend, and continues to share her adventures and discoveries with her funny, lovable family.
Review
"Lowry gives readers a fine mixture of wit and wisdom, offering funny adolescent dialogue that is true to their interests and language." -- School Library Journal, starred review
Other Books in this Series
*1979 "Anastasia Krupnik"
*1981 "Anastasia Again!"
*1982 "Anastasia at Your Service"
*1984 "Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst"
*1985 "Anastasia on Her Own"
*1986 "Anastasia Has the Answers"
*1991 "Anastasia at This Address"
*1995 "Anastasia Absolutely"
External links
* [http://www.loislowry.com/ana_career.html] Description from Lowry's website.
* [http://www.loislowry.com/ Lowry's website]
* [http://www.loislowry.com/books.html Complete list of books] by Lowry
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