![]() ![]() As in other kids' stories with sympathetic college-teacher fathers, this dad seems stuffier and less bright than he's meant to be-and Anastasia's poem seems less genuine than intended. ![]() A changing list of "Things I Love" and "Things I Hate" helps tie together Anastasia's experiences: she writes a poem which is not appreciated by her stereotypically unenlightened teacher she visits her professor-father's college English class where she's the only one to relate to the Wordsworth poem under discussion (his students are stereotypically spacey) she decides to turn Catholic so she can choose a new name but backs out when she learns about confession she falls in and out of love with a cool sixth-grade boy with an Afro and she becomes attached to her senile grandmother. Disappointing after A Summer to Die (1977), this episodic story takes Anastasia, ten, from her parents' unwelcome announcement that they're expecting a second child to her acceptance of the baby brother when he's born. ![]()
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