Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

The Star of Kazan /

Ibbotson, Eva.

The Star of Kazan / - 1st American ed. - New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2004. - 405 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

Map on lining papers.

A person is found -- The golden city -- The sinking of the Medusa -- White horses -- The countess of Monte Cristo -- The star of Kazan -- A swallow set free -- The Christmas carp -- The giant wheel -- Happiness -- Journey to Norrland -- The house at Spittal -- Lunch at the hunting lodge -- Finding the foal -- Hector -- Healing waters -- A smell of burning -- Annika breaks a promise -- Gypsies -- The godfather -- The Eggharts are disgusted -- Hermann's honor -- Beachcombing -- Zed rides -- Annika's surprise -- The harp arrives -- The uncle's story -- Collecting evidence -- The palace of Grossenfluss -- Switzerland -- Pupil number 126 -- Ragnar Hairybreeks -- The rescue -- Stefan confesses -- The emptying school -- Is she coming? -- The riverside hotel -- The letter -- Rocco -- Pauline's scrapbook -- The Danube steamer --Found day -- Hermann changes his mind -- The emperor's horse.

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.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

0525473475 (hardcover) : $16.99

Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com

2004045455


Abandoned children -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Juvenile fiction.
Jewelry--Juvenile fiction.


Vienna (Austria)--History--19th century--Juvenile fiction.
Austria--History--1867-1918--Juvenile fiction.
Germany--History--1871-1918--Juvenile fiction.

PZ7.I117 / St 2004

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