Anastasia At Your Service Author:Lois Lowry Anastasia is bored, depressed and in a state of extreme poverty. It's the school holidays. "What I'd really like to do," said Anastasia, "is to be a companion to an old lady. A really rich old lady, like those in mystery books, who hire young girls to hang around and help them out with stuff. Read their mail to them. Make tea for them. Maybe pol... more »ish their diamond bracelets and stuff like that."
Working for Mrs Bellingham doesn't quite live up to Anastasia's idea of being a "Companion". She's told to polish the silverware as soon as she arrives, but the result is disastrous. "What right." thought Anastasia angrily, "did you have to answer an ad for a Companion, for Pete's sake, and then turn someone into a scullery maid, without even asking her? Who the heck do you think you are?"« less