description: Annika never has a birthday – no one knows the date she was born. She celebrates her Found Day instead. For Annika was abandoned as a baby and found by a cook and a housemaid from Vienna. Her upbringing in the servants’ quarters of the house of three eccentric professors means that at an early age she can bake and ice a three-tier cake, and polish parquet floors to perfection. One summer`s evening a very old lady comes to stay with Annika`s awful neighbours. The stories of her extraordinary life as a famous dancer are spellbinding. Especially the tale of the besotted Russian count who gave her the legendary emerald, the Star of Kazan. Then suddenly a glamorous stranger arrives at Annika’s door. Her mother, after years of guilt and searching, has come to claim her. Annika is no servant but a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal she discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family... Eva Ibbotson’s hugely entertaining story is a timeless classic for listeners young and old...
language: English
title: The Star of Kazan
titlecomplete: The Star of Kazan
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Mystery, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 8509
places: Vienna, Germany, Austria
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: Macmillan Audio Books