- Humorous stories, Letters, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding.
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- Author
- Lois Lowry
- First published
- March 1994
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Lions, Tandem Library, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788467000733
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“"Mom, I need you to tell me what a word means."”
Lois Ann Lowry (/ˈlaʊəri/;[2] née Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences. Lowry has won two Newbery Medals: for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994. Her book Gooney Bird Greene won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry
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