Anastasia Off Her Rocker

By Lois Lowry

Book Overview

Anastasia's seventh-grade science project becomes almost more than she can handle, but brother Sam, age three, and a bust of Freud nobly aid her.

Being thirteen is tough, especially when your brilliant science project--mating two gerbils--spirals into a full-blown rodent crisis.

Funny Girl Protagonist: Meet Anastasia Krupnik, a seventh-grader who decides the only one who truly understands her is a plaster bust of Sigmund Freud she bought at a garage sale.Sibling Story: Her three-year-old brother, Sam, is a genius who can read, type, and accidentally reveal all of Anastasia's most embarrassing secrets.Chaotic Science Project: What starts as two gerbils named Romeo and Juliet quickly becomes eleven (and counting ), turning Anastasia's bedroom into a top-secret, smelly wildlife sanctuary.Relatable Family Life: Navigate the hilarious horrors of being a teenager with a quirky, artistic mom and a poet dad who are experts at being embarrassing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544439597
• ISBN13: 9780544439597
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Anastasia...funny girl that one

Anastasia is sure she is going insane so she buys a big statue of Freuds head and talks to it every day.This is a fantastic series,highly recommende buy moi!!(Now,what they decided to do with the gerbils at the end...was that really revenge on Nicky,or was it cruel to the gerbils!!)

GREAT

THIS BOOK GETS AN A+++! iT DEALS WITH KID'S PROBLEMS AND FINDING YOURSELF!!

Have you read Lois Lowry's books before? You haven't?!

Okay. This book is a part of a serie of books about a teenager, Anastasia Krupnik. In this book, Anastasia has a problem. She thinks her mother's abnormal, her brother's too smart and that her father never takes her seriously. Anastasia just can't understand it. Why does her family suddenly make her angry all the time? So, she decides she is "unstable" and needs to see a shrink. Unfortunately, her parents think the idea is just stupid and refuse to even discuss about it. NOW Anastasia really has a problem...Personally I thought this book was great. I higly recommend the serie to everybody (especially girls)from 11 to 15 years. READING IS FUN; KEEP IT UP :)