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An Interview with Mike Grosso

For my thirtieth Dream Gardens kid lit podcast, I interviewed author, educator and musician Mike Grosso about his favorite middle grade novel,  Anastsia Krupnik by Lois Lowry.

Published in 1979 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the novel is the first of a series of nine books is about unusual young girl named Anastasia Krupnik. Anastasia has a green notebook where she keeps track of the things she loves, like the new wart on her thumb, and the things she hates, like the baby brother who’s on his way much too soon.  But when life comes at her, like her crush on Washburn Cummings who doesn’t even know she’s alive, her 92 year old grandmother who can’t remember her name, and teachers who don’t understand when she pours her heart out in her poetry, it’s a whole lot for one ten year old girl to figure out.  But if anyone is up for meeting life head on, it’s Anastasia.

Mike Grosso is a fifth grade elementary teacher, musician, and author of the middle grade novel I am Drums. You can find Mike’s website at www.mikegrossoauthor.com.

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