Find Request It
Cover Image

The Star of Kazan

Show other versions (1)

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.

Saved in:
Main Author: Ibbotson, Eva
Other Authors: Conelly, Patricia (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2005.
Subjects:
Abandoned children > Juvenile fiction.
Identity > 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.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
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:In container (17 cm.).
Title from container.
"Unabridged Fiction"--Container.
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Compact disc.
Physical Description:9 sound discs (10 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also as Recorded Books Unabridged Fiction on compact disc with book.
Issued also on cassette.
Audience:10 years and up.
ISBN:1419355651
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)

Similar Items