The Star of Kazan
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ISBN: 0142405825 / Publisher: Puffin Books, April 2006
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.
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Left on a church doorstep and raised by two loving servants, Annika's happy life is greatly altered when a rich aristocrat arrives at her door, tells her that she is her real mother, and takes her to live in a crumbling castle far away from the only family she has ever known. An ALA Notable Book. Reprint.
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