The Star of Kazan

By Eva Ibbotson

Subjects: Art, Mystery and detective stories, Indian art, Expositions, Kunst, Identity, Austria, fiction, Indiens, Fiction, Indianen, Children's fiction, Jewelry, Juvenile fiction, History, Identity (Psychology), Mothers and daughters, Abandoned children

Description: 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.