Welcome to Anastasia’s world in the first book of the Anastasia series! To Anastasia, being ten is very confusing. She has an awful teacher who doesn’t like her non-rhyming poetry. Washburn Cummings, a very interesting boy, doesn’t even know she’s alive. And her parents insist that she visit her grandmother, who can’t even remember Anastasia’s name. On top of that, they’re going to have a baby–at their age! To get back at them, she just might have to do something terrible. AGES: 8-12 AUTHOR: Lois Lowry is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader’s Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com.