The Star of Kazan

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...

• Author
• Eva Ibbotson, Kevin Hawkes

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 416

• Publisher
• Puffin Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-240582-6

• EAN
• 9780142405826

• Genres
• fantasy, fiction, childrens, historical, mystery, adventure, juvenile

• Release date
• 2006