Anastasia Krupnik (Anastasia Krupnik, Bk. 1)

To Anastasia Krupnik, being ten is very confusing. For one thing, she has this awful teacher who can't understand why Anastasia doesn't use capital letters or punctuation in her poems. Then there's Washburn Cummings, a very interesting sixth-grade boy who doesn't even know Anastasia's alive. Even her parents have become difficult. They insist she visit her ninety-two-year-old grandmother, who can never remember Anastasia's name. On top of all that, they're going to have a baby - at their age! It's enough to make a kid want to do something terrible. If she didn't have her secret green notebook to write in, Anastasia might never make it to her eleventh birthday.