The Star of Kazan Paper back - 2006
by Eva Ibbotson
- Used
- Good
In this award-winning novel, set in pre-World War I Vienna, a young servant girl learns that she is actually an aristocrat whose true home is an ancient castle. There, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her newfound family. Illustrations.
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- Title The Star of Kazan
- Author Eva Ibbotson
- Binding Paper Back
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 405
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Puffin Books, New York, New York
- Date April 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 294848
- ISBN 9780142405826 / 0142405825
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 5.12 x 1.11 in (19.66 x 13.00 x 2.82 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 880
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Central Europe
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Identity
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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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.
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 03/13/2006, Page 69