THE STAR OF KAZAN
Eva Ibbotson
Annika’s guardians, Ellie and Sigrid, found her one day in a small country church. They had stopped to rest their tired feet when they heard the sounds of crying and discovered a small baby with a note pinned to her blanket asking that they take her to the nun’s in Vienna. Ellie and Sigrid do just that and through unusual circumstances end up raising her as their own daughter in the professor’s house where they work as housekeepers. While Annika loves both of them dearly she does daydream about her “real” mother and what her life would be like if they were together. One day after returning from school she is surprised to find that her mother is there and wants to see her. Well from then on nothing is as it seems and in order to be with her newly found mother Annika has to leave everything she has known. Doing so she starts off on what turns out to be an incredible adventure that you as the reader of this sometimes funny, sometimes exciting story can share.
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