![]() ![]() In addition to worrying about being weird, teen-agers are terrified at the thought of being invisible, not recognized as special. Confiding to her mother that a ''friend'' has a crush on a female teacher, Anastasia discovers that as a 13-year-old, her very own mother, Katherine Krupnik, had a crush on her pretty piano teacher and went on to turn out perfectly O.K. At a time when homosexuality is discussed openly - from television talk shows to the painfully public arena of health classes in school - Anastasia worries about what her feelings for the gym teacher may mean for her own future. She is also fearful that her feelings for her gym teacher are ''gross'' and ''sick,'' because the gym teacher is female. ![]() Anastasia is afraid she will be the only girl who never climbs the ropes. In this sixth Anastasia book featuring the now 13-year-old daughter of a Harvard University English professor and poet, and a painter living in a Boston suburb, Lois Lowry addresses every teen-ager's fear: being weird. In ''Anastasia Has the Answers'' the title character comes to grips with her problems. That humiliates and embarrasses her in front of the person she admires more than any other in the whole world, her tall, lanky physical education teacher Wilhelmina Willoughby. ![]() She walks just fine, but she could not cope with ballet and now she cannot climb the ropes in her seventh grade gym class. (Ages 10 and up)ĪNASTASIA KRUPNIK is still hopeless with her feet. ![]()
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