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The Star of Kazan Paperback - 2006

by Eva Ibbotson

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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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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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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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  • Title The Star of Kazan
  • Author Eva Ibbotson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Puffin Books, New York, New York
  • Publication date 2006-04-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents
  • 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)
  • Age range 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 880
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Identity
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Publishers Weekly, 03/13/2006, Page 69

About the author

Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner (1925-2010), was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's books. Some of her novels for adults have been successfully reissued for the young adult market in recent years. For the historical novel Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan, 2001), she won the Smarties Prize in category 9-11 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and made the Carnegie Medal, Whitbread Award, and Blue Peter Book Award shortlists. She was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize at the time of her death. Her last book, The Abominables, was one of eight books on the longlist for the same award in 2012.
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