Eva Ibbotson

The Star of Kazan

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Produktbeschreibung

In this award-winning novel, set in pre-World War I Vienna, a young servant girl learns that she is actually an aristocrat whose true home is an ancient castle. There, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her newfound family. Illustrations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 130mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780142405826
• ISBN-10: 0142405825
• Artikelnr.: 22167052

Autorenporträt

Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner (1925-2010), 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, 2001), she won the Smarties Prize in category 9-11 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and made the Carnegie Medal, Whitbread Award, and Blue Peter Book Award shortlists. She was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize at the time of her death. Her last book, The Abominables, was one of eight books on the longlist for the same award in 2012.

Rezensionen

...elegantly written, witty and well-observed if (after a few) formulaic fables of emigrées with beautiful burnished hair fallen on hard times. Nigella Lawson The Sunday Times