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All About Sam

by Lois Lowry · 1988

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Everyone knows Sam Krupnik. He's Anastasia's pesty but lovable younger brother.

This is Sam's big chance to tell things exactly the way he sees them. He has his own ideas about haircuts, nursery school, getting shots, and not eating broccoli. Sam thinks a lot about being bigger and stronger, about secret codes and show-and-tell.

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Make way for your little brother, Anastasia. Here for the first time is Sam Krupnik's life story. What a life!

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
childhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrensyoung adultmiddle grade
Length
short · 144 pages

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