Ebook {Epub PDF} The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson

 · The Star of Kazan is the story of Annika - a young orphan girl in Vienna, who gets found and adopted by a servant and a housekeeper (Ellie and .  · Synopsis. Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old. In , in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors.  · About the Author. Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner (–), was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's books. Some of her novels for adults have been successfully reissued for the young adult market in recent years. For the historical novel Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan, ), she won the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered Edition description: Reprint.

I promised (threatened?) that there would be plenty of Eva Ibbotson reviews when I returned to blogging, and here I am to deliver. Just as I was hoping, The Star of Kazan was an absolutely perfect comfort read. The novel opens in a baby girl is abandoned in a small church in the Alps and is found by two middle-aged sisters, Ellie and Sigrid, who work as a cook and a maid for three. Just when I thought I'd read every children's book by Eva Ibbotson, my friend Ellen, who really knows what children love, told me about The Star of Kazan. So I set out to read it, and found myself staying up practically all night just to finish it. It's that kind of book. The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson makes your heart beat faster than a mouse's heartbeat. From an abandoned baby, to a grim suicide to a very volatile school and many more gripping events, The Star.

ISBN. OCLC. The Star of Kazan () is a novel by Eva Ibbotson. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Silver Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Eva Ibbotson Booklist Eva Ibbotson Message Board Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Star of Kazan Abandoned at birth, year-old Annika has been raised as a servant in the Viennese home of three quirky--but loveable—professors (Emil, Gertrude, and Julius). Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and bltadwin.ru , in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors.