• Complain

Eva Ibbotson - The Star of Kazan

Here you can read online Eva Ibbotson - The Star of Kazan full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2004, publisher: Pan Macmillan, genre: Children / Prose. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Eva Ibbotson The Star of Kazan
  • Book:
    The Star of Kazan
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Pan Macmillan
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2004
  • ISBN:
    9780330477406
  • Rating:
    3 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 60
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

The Star of Kazan: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "The Star of Kazan" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. And sure enough, one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching, Annikas mother has come to claim her daughter, who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat and whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family Eva Ibbotsons hugely entertaining story is a timeless classic for readers young and old.

Eva Ibbotson: author's other books


Who wrote The Star of Kazan? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

The Star of Kazan — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "The Star of Kazan" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson For Rowan The Author Eva Ibbotson was - photo 1

The Star of Kazan

by

Eva Ibbotson

For Rowan

The Author

Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but spent her early childhood travelling backwards and forwards across Europe between the homes of her father, a scientist, and her mother, a novelist and playwright, who separated when she was three. When the Nazis came to power, her family fed to England and she was sent to boarding school. She planned to become a physiologist, but hated doing experiments on animals, and was rescued from some fierce rabbits by her husband-to-be. She became a writer while bringing up her four children, and her bestselling novels for both adults and children have been published around the world. She lives in Newcastle.

The Star of Kazan won the Nestl Silver Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

Journey to the River Sea won the Nestl Gold Award, was runner-up for the Whitbread Childrens Book of the Year and the Guardian Childrens Fiction Award, and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Anne Fine, then Childrens Laureate, said of it: Any reader presented with this book will be enriched for life.

For more information about Eva Ibbotson and her books visit: www.bebo.com/evaibbotson

Books by Eva Ibbotson

The Dragonfly Pool

The Star of Kazan

Journey to the River Sea

The Beasts of Clawstone Castle

The Great Ghost Rescue

Which Witch?

The Haunting of Hiram

Not Just a Witch

The Secret of Platform 13

Dial a Ghost

Monster Mission

For older readers

A Song for Summer

The Secret Countess

The Morning Gift

Praise for The Star of Kazan

Every bit as compelling as Journey to the River Sea. An ingeniously plotted story, with a compelling sense of character and place

The Times

Eva Ibbotson creates a marvellous world of rich and poor, kind and unkind, young and old against a background of Viennese convention. The Star of Kazan is a heartwarming, old-fashioned adventure as absorbing as Ibbotsons prize-winning Journey to the River Sea

Julia Eccleshare, Guardian

Eva Ibbotson is one of our most enjoyable writers for the young. She tells stories with humour, warmth and perfect clarity in a way that children follow completely Ibbotson builds her story with cliffhanging chapter endings on the way we fall, not only for the heroine and her friends but for the real city of Vienna and its Lipizzaner horses, big wheel and irresistible pastries. The book, too, is delicious

Sunday Times Childrens Book of the Week

This is a great big fat engrossing read. It draws you in and wont let you go until the last page is turned and the last sigh is sighed

Books for Keeps

Eva Ibbotson is writing better than ever The Star of Kazan should pick up more prizes

Independent

Fans of Evas last novel, Journey to the River Sea, will be glad to know shes back and on top form An amazing adventure that will launch you into a Viennese whirl!

Sunday Times (Funday Times)

[The Star of Kazan] eschews magic Ibbotson excels at describing not only the world of the senses but that of the heart Ibbotsons genius is for creating people (and animals) whom you instantly recognize and love

The Times

The bookshops are crammed with childrens titles, but where is the quality in all that quantity? Amid the flurries of new titles, what do you choose? This summer the problem is solved. Ibbotson has written a new novel, The Star of Kazan

Dina Rabinovitch, Guardian

A fabulously satisfying read

Sunday Telegraph

This is a solidly traditional piece of story-telling There is more to the book than a good story, expertly told

Times Educational Supplement

This is a beautiful, simply written and enchanting story that will keep you in suspense until the very end. An excellent read

Publishing News

The Star of Kazan weighs in at an impressive 380 pages, and that is important because when you are presented with story-telling of this calibre, you simply never want it to end

Lindsey Fraser, Bookseller

Maps

1 A Person is Found Ellie had gone into the church because of her feet This - photo 21 A Person is Found Ellie had gone into the church because of her feet This - photo 3

1

A Person is Found

Ellie had gone into the church because of her feet. This is not the best reason for entering a church, but Ellie was plump and middle-aged and her feet were hurting her. They were hurting her badly.

It was a beautiful sunny day in June and Ellie and her friend Sigrid (who was as thin as Ellie was portly) had set out early from Vienna in the little train which took them to the mountains, so that they could climb up to the top of a peak called the Dorfelspitze.

They went to the mountains on the last Sunday of every month, which was their day off, changing their aprons for dirndls and filling their rucksacks with salami sandwiches and slices of plum cake, so that when they got to the top they could admire the view without getting hungry. It was how they refreshed their souls after the hard work they did all week, cleaning and cooking and shopping and scrubbing for the professors who employed them, and who were fussy about how things were done. Ellie was the cook and Sigrid was the housemaid and they had been friends for many years.

But on this particular Sunday, Ellie was wearing new boots, which is a silly thing to do when you are going on a long excursion. They were about halfway up the mountain when they came to a flower-filled meadow and on the far side of it, standing quite by itself, a small white church with an onion dome.

Ellie stopped.

You know, Sigrid, I think Id like to say a prayer for my mother. I had a dream about her last night. Why dont you go on and Ill catch you up.

Sigrid snorted.

I told you not to wear new boots.

But she agreed to go ahead slowly, and Ellie crossed the wooden bridge over a little stream, and went into the church.

It was a lovely church one of those places which look as though God might be about to give a marvellous party. There was a painted ceiling full of angels and golden stars and a picture of St Ursula holding out her arms, which made Ellies feet feel better straight away. The holy relic wasnt something worrying like a toe bone or a withered hand but a lock of the saints hair in a glass dome decorated with pearls, and though the church stood all by itself away from the village, someone had put a bunch of fresh alpenroses in a vase at the Virgins feet.

Ellie slipped into a pew and loosened her shoelaces. She said a prayer for her mother, who had passed on many years ago and closed her eyes.

She only slept for a few minutes. When she awoke the church was still empty, but she thought she had been woken by a noise of some sort. She looked round carefully, but she could find nothing. Then, peering over the edge of the pew, she saw, lying on the crimson carpet at the foot of the altar steps a parcel.

It was about the size of a vegetable marrow quite a large one and Ellies first thought was that someone had left it there as a harvest offering. But harvest festivals happen in September not in June. And now, to Ellies amazement, the marrow made a noise. A small, mewing noise

A kitten a puppy?

Ellie did up her shoelaces and went over to look.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «The Star of Kazan»

Look at similar books to The Star of Kazan. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «The Star of Kazan»

Discussion, reviews of the book The Star of Kazan and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.