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    <body><![CDATA[Annika, a foundling brought up by a cook and her house-maid friend, had always dreamt of her mother coming to find her. Annika had always worked in the house of the eccentric Professors in which she had grown up but when her mother actually does turn up, she finds herself living in the large - if so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71278166">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Of the three books I have read by Ibbotson, this is my least favourite. This is probably because it is aimed at a younger audience then The Secret Countess and The Morning Gift. <br/><br/>Again, it's a classic romantic tale, with a happy ever after ending. That's no spoiler, it's just one of those...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28756487">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My kind of story...a mystery surrounding jewelry pieces worth millions of francs. <br/><br/>Annika is a orphan raised by two servants and three professors in the early 20th Century Vienna. Although, at times, she is wise and understanding beyond her years; she's a steady girl with a good heart. Lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21798866">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmm...Eva Ibbotson wrote this as a tribute to Vienna, the country she grew up in, and sure enough, I only liked the sections that took place in Vienna, not in Germany. I found the part of the story that takes place in Germany miserably depressing. Sadly, the Vienna section is only the first 80, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2812993">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So, I hate the whole star thing. I start comparing what I gave what to and it messed me up. Anyway - while my tastes now run more toward the quirky, this is the kind of book I would have read and really liked in 4th grade or so. Long, historical, complicated, poor little rich girl on her own comes i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47598927">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/57462.Eva_Ibbotson" title="Eva Ibbotson">Eva Ibbotson</a> is captivating and writes beautiful stories in the grand tradition of fairy tells with virtuous heroines, desperate villains and happy endings.  It's the stories I could read over and over again.  They remind me a little of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2041.Frances_Hodgson_Burnett" title="Frances Hodgson Burnett">Frances Hodges Burnett</a> and I love it.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66660226">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson is a young adult novel. The first chapter was excellent and pulled me right in, but I found the following few chapters a bit lacking. They all served a purpose but I felt it took too long to get to the point and my attention started to wonder. However, once the ’s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50769734">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely delicious-- like sitting at a sunny cafe in Vienna, listening to a strings ensemble play a waltz while eating cream-filled pastries and talking to friends.  I have not read a book I enjoyed this much in a long time.  =)  This was shelved as a mystery, but there was nothing scary at all.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43237862">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Annika is happy living in the servants' quarters of a house owned by three eccentric professors. She adores Ellie and Sigrid, the cook and housemaid who found her as a baby, abandoned on a church doorstep. In the eleven years since, they have taught her how to bake and clean to perfection. Then one day a glamorous stranger arrives, claiming to be Annika's mother. Annika is no servant, she learns, but an aristocrat whose true home is an ancient castle. But at crumbling Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her newfound family. . .]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A simple story with a bit of mystery in. However, Eva Ibbotson's writing makes it so lively and beautiful. Her descriptions of Vienna were so wonderfully vivid that it made me want to visit Vienna again. It was like I was walking through Vienna at that moment in time.<br/><br/>Though the reason wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39958897">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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