Annika has never had a birthday. Instead she celebrates her Found Day, the day a housemaid and a cook to three eccentric Viennese professors found her and took her home. There, Annika has made a happy life in the servants quarters, surrounded with friends, including the elderly woman next door who regales Annika with stories of her performing days and her countless admirers - especially the Russian count who gave her the legendary emerald, the Star of Kazan. And yet, Annika still dreams of finding her true mother. But when a glamorous stranger arrives claiming to be Annikas mother, and whisks her away to a crumbling, spooky castle, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in her newfound home...
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Annika has never had a birthday. Instead she celebrates her Found Day, the day a housemaid and a cook to three eccentric Viennese professors found her and took her home. There, Annika has made a happy life in the servants quarters, surrounded with friends, including the elderly woman next door who regales Annika with stories of her performing days and her countless admirers - especially the Russian count who gave her the legendary emerald, the Star of Kazan. And yet, Annika still dreams of finding her true mother. But when a glamorous stranger arrives claiming to be Annikas mother, and whisks her away to a crumbling, spooky castle, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in her newfound home...
شناسنامهٔ کتاب
- تعداد صفحات
- ۴۱۶
- زبان
- English
- ناشر
- Puffin Books
- شابک
- 9780000000000
جوایز
- Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Nominee (2007
