by Eva Ibbotson · tapa dura · ISBN 9781405020541
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«The Star of Kazan» is Eva Ibbotson's young adult adventure novel, published by Pan MacMillan in 2004 in hardback, in English.
Annika was abandoned as a baby on a church doorstep and grew up happily among the servants of three eccentric professors. A glamorous stranger claims to be her mother and announces she is an aristocrat. Upon arriving at Spittal Castle, Annika discovers that not everything is as it seems.
The edition was published on 28 July 2004; the work was nominated for the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award in 2007.
Aimed at a young adult audience, it can also be enjoyed as a mystery and adventure read with a historical setting.
Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Ibbotson was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's literature. Some of her novels for adults have been reissued for the young adult market. The historical novel Journey to the River Sea won her the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered an unusual commendation as runner-up for the Guardian Prize, and made the Carnegie, Whitbread, and Blue Peter shortlists. She was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Prize at the time of her death. Her last book, The Abominables, was among four finalists for the same award in 2012.
