Episode 223 – Anastasia Krupnik
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
For this Flashback Summer episode, the Bellwether Friends Anna & Alene joined Renata to discuss Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry. Sadly, Kait had to miss this one because she was busy shopping for her new poetry outfit, which would make Anastasia green with envy. Listen to this episode while you update the list of “loves” and “hates” in your notebook!
Kait’s Poetry Outfit:
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “Four Questions with Lois Lowry, Newbery Award-Winning Children’s Author” by Molly Parr
“Why Anastasia Krupnik Was Ahead of Her Time” by Grace Lapointe
Bellwether Friends #65 – Fastest and Furiousest
Coming up next: Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers where we read about the contents of Anastasia's green |
| 0:16.9 | notebook so you don't have to. I'm Renata and Kate is actually off shopping for a new poetry outfit so she is not here |
| 0:24.7 | this week. |
| 0:25.9 | And for this episode, we read Anastasia Kruppnick by Lois Lowry. |
| 0:30.5 | Joining us to discuss this epic saga of fifth grade love and hate are Anna and Aline, |
| 0:36.7 | the Bellwether friends. |
| 0:38.6 | Hello. |
| 0:39.5 | Hello. |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome back. |
| 0:42.9 | Thanks for having us. |
| 0:44.4 | We're excited. |
| 0:45.6 | So we're the worst best friends, although we're minus Kate this week. |
| 0:49.2 | So the dynamic is slightly different and we'll just see how it goes. |
| 1:00.5 | You know? It's 100% pro cat right extremely pro yes I'm trying to think what else like you know um while we were just talking so this book |
| 1:09.8 | has a lot of Catholicism in it, |
| 1:11.3 | we're down our Catholic explainer. |
| 1:13.4 | So we're just going to do our best. |
| 1:15.5 | And that's what you can ask of us. |
| 1:16.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:17.3 | We miss Kate and we're glad that she has an opportunity to go poetry outfit shopping and relax. |
| 1:24.7 | And it's going to be really fun for me to try to Catholic explain via past besties being Catholic. |
| 1:31.6 | Yeah, we can't wait to see Kate's new fit. |
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