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The Star of Kazan |
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| Book: Hardcover | 5.82 x 8.54in | 416 pages | ISBN 9780525473473 | 07 Oct 2004 | Dutton Children's | 10 - AND UP years |
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Annika is happy living in the servants' quarters of a house owned by three eccentric professors. She adores Ellie and Sigrid, the cook and housemaid who found her as a baby, abandoned on a church doorstep. In the eleven years since, they have taught her how to bake and clean to perfection. Then one day a glamorous stranger arrives, claiming to be Annika's mother. Annika is no servant, she learns, but an aristocrat whose true home is an ancient castle. But at crumbling Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her newfound family. . .
“Ibbotson, master of the ‘poor orphan makes good’ tale, offers another eminently satisfying example… [R]eaders will long remember the admirable Annika and cheer her eventual, well-deserved, triumph.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year 2004
Booklist Editor's Choice 2004
ALA Notable Book 2005
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