The Star of Kazan
By: Eva Ibbotson ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.
Contributors: Hawkes, Kevin, ill.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Abandoned children -- Fiction; Identity -- Fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Jewelry -- Fiction; Mystery and detective stories; Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Austria -- History -- 1867-1918 -- Fiction; Germany -- History -- 1871-1918 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.