Anastasia's Chosen Career
1987 book by Lois Lowry
978-0-3954-2506-0Anastasia's Chosen Career (1987) is a young-adult novel by Lois Lowry. It is the seventh part of a series of books that Lowry wrote about Anastasia and her younger brother Sam.
After being assigned a school essay on her chosen career, Anastasia spends her vacation unsuccessfully trying to interview a bookshop owner and attending a modeling class which has a number of similarities to the Barbizon modeling school franchise.
Reception
"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[1]
References
- ^ Carlson, Dudley B. (September 1987). "Lowry, Lois. Anastasia's Chosen Career". School Library Journal. Vol. 34, no. 1. p. 180.
External links
- [1] Description from Lowry's website.
- Lowry's website
- Complete list of books Archived 2006-10-22 at the Wayback Machine by Lowry
- Anastasia's Chosen Career at Open Library
Children and Young Adult Literature portal
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Novels by Lois Lowry
- The Giver (1993)
- Gathering Blue (2000)
- Messenger (2004)
- Son (2012)
- Anastasia Krupnik (1979)
- Anastasia Again! (1981)
- Anastasia at Your Service (1982)
- Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst (1984)
- Anastasia on Her Own (1985)
- Anastasia Has the Answers (1986)
- Anastasia's Chosen Career (1987)
- Anastasia at This Address (1991)
- Anastasia Absolutely (1995)
- All About Sam (1988)
- Attaboy, Sam! (1992)
- See You Around, Sam! (1996)
- Zooman Sam (1999)
- The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline (1983)
- Switcharound (1985)
- Your Move, J.P.! (1990)
- Gooney Bird Greene (2002)
- Gooney Bird and the Room Mother (2005)
- Gooney the Fabulous (2007)
- Gooney Bird Is So Absurd (2009)
- Gooney Bird On the Map (2011)
- Gooney Bird and All Her Charms (2013)
- Looking Back (1998)
- A Summer to Die (1977)
- Here in Kennebunkport (1978)
- Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye (1978)
- Autumn Street (1980)
- Taking Care of Terrific (1983)
- Us and Uncle Fraud (1984)
- Rabble Starkey (1987)
- Number the Stars (1989)
- Stay! Keeper's Story (1997)
- The Silent Boy (2003)
- Gossamer (2006)
- The Willoughbys (2008)
- Crow Call (2009)
- The Birthday Ball (2010)
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