num_pages: 405
description: Annika is happy living in the servants' quarters of a house owned by three eccentric professors. She adores Ellie and Sigrid, the cook and housemaid who found her as a baby, abandoned on a church doorstep. In the eleven years since, they have taught her how to bake and clean to perfection. Then one day a glamorous stranger arrives, claiming to be Annika's mother. Annika is no servant, she learns, but an aristocrat whose true home is an ancient castle. But at crumbling Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her newfound family. . .
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: Dutton Children's Books