The Star of Kazan

After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.

Main Author:	Ibbotson, Eva.
Other Authors:	Hawkes, Kevin (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2004.
Edition:	1st American ed.
Subjects:	Abandoned children > Juvenile fiction. Identity (Psychology) > Juvenile fiction. Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction. Jewelry > Juvenile fiction. Vienna (Austria) > History > 19th century > Juvenile fiction. Austria > History > 1867-1918 > Juvenile fiction. Germany > History > 1871-1918 > Juvenile fiction. Mystery fiction > Juvenile.

Summary:	After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
Item Description:	Map on lining papers.
Physical Description:	405 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Awards:	A Junior Library Guild selection.
ISBN:	0525473475 (hardcover) : $16.99
Author Notes:	Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, Austria, on January 21, 1925. She graduated from Bedford College, London with a degree in physiology in 1945 and the University of Durham with a degree in education in 1965. Her first book, The Great Ghost Rescue, was published in 1975. She primarily wrote children's book and romance novels for adults and young adults. Her other works include The Secret of Platform 13, The Star of Kazan, Which Witch?, Island of the Aunts, Dial-a-Ghost, The Ogre of Oglefort, A Company of Swans, and A Song For Summer. She won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Journey to the River Sea. She died on October 20, 2010 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography)

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