Anastasia Krupnik Books

Read the nine Anastasia books in publication order. Each story has its own problem and plenty of family comedy, but Anastasia gets older and the Krupnik family changes across the series.

The four Sam Krupnik books focus on Anastasia's younger brother and work as a separate younger-reader series. Families can start those with All About Sam without first finishing Anastasia's books.

Sources: Lois Lowry's official Anastasia book list, Lois Lowry's official Sam Krupnik book list.

These are warm family comedies, but they do not avoid hard parts of growing up. Stories include a grandmother's dementia and death, grief, a new baby and sibling jealousy, family arguments, embarrassment, and questions about divorce.

Because the books were published from the late 1970s through the 1990s, some attitudes and references feel dated. Smoking appears, and one comic plot has Anastasia answer a personal ad and unknowingly correspond with an older man; the mistake is not treated as a romance.