Anastasia's Chosen Career
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Author | Lois Lowry |
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Cover artist | Diane deGroat |
Language | English |
Series | The Anastasia Series |
Genre | Young adult |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Publication date | 1987 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 142 |
ISBN | 978-0-3954-2506-0 |
OCLC | 16087830 |
LC Class | PZ7.L9673 Aq 1987 |
Preceded by | Anastasia Has the Answers |
Followed by | Anastasia at This Address |
Anastasia'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
[edit]"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
[edit]- ^ Carlson, Dudley B. (September 1987). "Lowry, Lois. Anastasia's Chosen Career". School Library Journal. Vol. 34, no. 1. p. 180.
External links
[edit]- [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