Ibbotson, Eva.

The Star of Kazan / Eva Ibbotson ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. - New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 2006. - 405 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

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.

0142405825 (pbk.)

2006273865


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.

MLCS 2006/46506 (P)