Eva Ibbotson
Paperback | Pages: 416 pages Rating: 3.99 | 7207 Users | 604 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Star of Kazan |
| ISBN: | 0142405825 (ISBN13: 9780142405826) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2007) |
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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...Specify Of Books The Star of Kazan
| Title | : | The Star of Kazan |
| Author | : | Eva Ibbotson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 416 pages |
| Published | : | April 6th 2006 by Puffin Books (first published December 31st 1999) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fantasy. Fiction. Childrens |
Rating Of Books The Star of Kazan
Ratings: 3.99 From 7207 Users | 604 ReviewsEvaluation Of Books The Star of Kazan
Just as good as her book The Dragonfly Pool...I might have even liked the story better. Overall, great story, well-written, great characters... a really nice readFavorite non sequitur read in a children's book today: [The characters are an aristocratic Austrian girl and her stable boy Hungarian friend. She was making soup, chopping "what seemed to be the last onion" in the house.] "Have you ever thought of marrying a Canadian settler?" She shook her head, "Why a Canadian?" "Haven't you ever wanted to go there? To the North West--the coast is full of islands and there's forest for miles and miles and everybody's equal there." "No, I haven't." But that
A wonderfully readable mystery by the incomparable Eva Ibbotson. Annika is an orphan who was abandoned as an infant. She is taken in by two servants who work for a family of eccentric professors. She grows up in a servants world, surrounded by love, but she yearns to know more about her birth mother. Annika is recruited to care for the elderly relative of an obnoxious family in the neighborhood who are indifferent to their relatives well being. Annika befriends the old lady, who tells her all
Eva Ibbotson really gets you glued to her books
Not quite as good as Journey to the River Sea.Good lyricism and atmosphere.Boring in bits.Lacking a strong, in any way, main character. Rather like a sheep, in that she question her "mother" in no way and just followed along.Side characters were more interesting.Predictable plot.Still enjoyable.Recommended for MG children.
4.5I would call this a modern classic. It reads like one. Great storytelling, scene building, character development. Vienna comes to life with the authors words. And so does the rundown Spittal in northern Germany, the other major setting in the book. Theres a lot of warmth and ease in the storytelling. And the author takes the time to show us Annikas life, from when she is raised as a foundling by a housemaid and a cook who work in the professors house in Vienna to when she thinks she has
Eva Ibbotson is by far my favourite author ever! Her books are the perfect mix of historical fiction, adventure and that special touch Eva adds to all her books. The Star of Kazan was lovely and I absolutely loved the twists and turns of the story. Eva Ibbotson does this thing in her books where she makes you just want to be there and seeing the events unwinding right in front of you, with the Star of Kazan, the detailed description of Vienna and the sights within just made me want to jump into
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