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Annika has never had a birthday. Instead she celebrates her Found Day, the day a housemaid and a cook to three eccentric Viennese professors found her and took her home. There, Annika has made a happy life in the servants' quarters, surrounded with friends, including the elderly woman next door who regales Annika with stories of her performing days and her countless admirers - especially the Russian count who gave her the legendary emerald, the Star of Kazan. And yet, Annika still dreams of finding her true mother. But when a glamorous stranger arrives claiming to be Annika's mother, and whisks her away to a crumbling, spooky castle, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in her newfound home...
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The Star of Kazan, Eva Ibbotson
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- Released
- 2004
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- Title
- The Star of Kazan
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Eva Ibbotson
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN10
- 1405020547
- ISBN13
- 9781405020541
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy, American Literature, English Literature
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- Annika has never had a birthday. Instead she celebrates her Found Day, the day a housemaid and a cook to three eccentric Viennese professors found her and took her home. There, Annika has made a happy life in the servants' quarters, surrounded with friends, including the elderly woman next door who regales Annika with stories of her performing days and her countless admirers - especially the Russian count who gave her the legendary emerald, the Star of Kazan. And yet, Annika still dreams of finding her true mother. But when a glamorous stranger arrives claiming to be Annika's mother, and whisks her away to a crumbling, spooky castle, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in her newfound home...