Anastasia's Chosen Career

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Anastasia's Chosen Career
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First edition
Author Lois Lowry
Cover artistDiane deGroat
LanguageEnglish
Series The Anastasia Series
Genre Young adult
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date
1987
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages142
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.

Contents

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

"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

  1. Carlson, Dudley B. (September 1987). "Lowry, Lois. Anastasia's Chosen Career". School Library Journal. Vol. 34, no. 1. p. 180.