History Literature / AnastasiaKrupnik

* PoorCommunicationKills: When Anastasia tells Robert that her highly precocious baby brother Sam is "weird," Robert gets the impression that Sam is handicapped. Anastasia is too embarrassed to correct him, resulting in shenanigans when Robert scolds her for being ashamed of her poor disabled brother [[spoiler:and even more shenanigans when Robert finally meets Sam.]]

* NamesTheSame: In ''Anastasia Again,'' Anastasia's new neighbor shares a name with Gertrude Stein, leading to HistoricalCharacterConfusion when Anastasia informs her literature-loving father.

* NarrativeProfanityFilter: In ''Anastasia on Her Own,'' the text replaces all [[spoiler:Annie's]] frequent swear words with the word "bleeping."

* SurpriseLitterOfPuppies: Anastasia's pet gerbils turn out to a pair of pregnant females that deliver litters of babies five days after she acquires them.

* ParentsAsPeople: We get a pretty fair idea of the lives of Anastasia's parents--her mother, a temperamental artist, and her father, a thoughtful poet--and they frequently have lives and plotlines outside their children. This usually doesn't impact their childrearing abilities, but in ''Anastasia on Her Own,'' both parents' careers combine to leave 13-year-old [[TitleDrop Anastasia on her own]] for a week to tend her sick brother.

* TitleDrop: As a running joke in ''Anastasia Again.'' Anastasia's neighbor Gertrude nicknames her "Anastasia Again," since this is the way Anastasia always announces her arrival.

''Anastasia Krupnik'' is the first book of a popular series of [[MiddleGradeLiterature middle-grade]] novels by Lois Lowry, depicting the title character's life as a girl "just trying to grow up". Anastasia deals with everyday problems such as popularity and the wart on her thumb. The book is written in episodic fashion, each chapter self-contained with minimal narrative link to the others. At the end of each chapter is a list written by Anastasia, listing her likes and dislikes, showing the character's growth and development through the story. Other books, with the exception of two, also had a link with each of the other chapters, such as Anastasia's science project, her "Chosen Career" essay, etc.

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: At the end of the first book,c Anastasia' baby brother Sam is born the day after their grandmother dies.

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: At the end of the first book, Anastasia' baby brother Sam is born the day after their grandmother dies.

''Anastasia Krupnik'' is the first book of a popular series of middle-grade novels by Lois Lowry, depicting the title character's life as a girl "just trying to grow up". Anastasia deals with everyday problems such as popularity and the wart on her thumb. The book is written in episodic fashion, each chapter self-contained with minimal narrative link to the others. At the end of each chapter is a list written by Anastasia, listing her likes and dislikes, showing the character's growth and development through the story. Other books, with the exception of two, also had a link with each of the other chapters, such as Anastasia's science project, her "Chosen Career" essay, etc.

* SweetieGraffiti: A non-romantic version: when Anastasia's family moves. Battling her sadness over this, Anastasia writes, ''This is my room forever. Anastasia Krupnik'' in small letters on her bedroom wall, then goes downstairs to her father's study to have a conversation with him, during which she acts like nothing is wrong. As she's leaving, she notices his name on the wall.

''Anastasia Krupnik'' is the first book of a popular series of middle-grade novels by Lois Lowry, depicting the title character's life as a girl "just trying to grow up". Anastasia deals with everyday problems such as popularity and the wart on her thumb. The book is written in episodic fashion, each chapter self-contained with minimal narrative link to the others. At the end of each chapter is a list written by Anastasia, listing her likes and dislikes, showing the character's growth and development through the story.

The ''Anastasia Krupnik'' series was 29th on the American Library Association's "The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000" for reasons such as references to beer, ''{{Playboy}}'' magazine, and a casual reference to a character wanting to kill herself. The series was also criticized because one novel of the series featured Anastasia replying to a personal ad and lying about her age and her life to an older man; however, the two never have any romantic experiences and when they meet, the man has no idea that Anastasia is the woman to whom he had been writing.

* SweetieGraffiti: A non-romantic version: when Anastasia's family moves. Battling her sadness over this, Anastasia writes, ''This is my room forever. Anastasia Krupnik'' in small letters on her bedroom wall, then goes downstairs to her father's study to have a conversation with him, during which she acts like nothing is wrong. As she's leaving, she notices his name on the wall.

* ChildNamingRequest: In the first book, Anastasia's parents say that they'll let her name her baby brother and promise to stick with whatever name she chooses. She writes down the chosen name in her diary, "the worst name she could think of". [[spoiler: She doesn't actually use [[NoodleIncident "the worst name," whatever it was]]; she names him Sam after their deceased grandfather.]]

* ChildNamingPromise: In the first book, Anastasia's parents say that they'll let her name her baby brother and promise to stick with whatever name she chooses. She writes down the chosen name in her diary, "the worst name she could think of". [[spoiler: She doesn't actually use [[NoodleIncident "the worst name," whatever it was]]; she names him Sam after their deceased grandfather.]]

* SweetieGrafitti: A non-romantic version: when Anastasia's family moves. Battling her sadness over this, Anastasia writes, ''This is my room forever. Anastasia Krupnik'' in small letters on her bedroom wall, then goes downstairs to her father's study to have a conversation with him, during which she acts like nothing is wrong. As she's leaving, she notices his name on the wall.