After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late
nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a
woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to
live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
Awards:
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Notes:
Map on lining papers.
A person is found -- The golden city -- The sinking of the Medusa --
White horses -- The countess of Monte Cristo -- The star of Kazan --
A swallow set free -- The Christmas carp -- The giant wheel --
Happiness -- Journey to Norrland -- The house at Spittal -- Lunch at
the hunting lodge -- Finding the foal -- Hector -- Healing waters --
A smell of burning -- Annika breaks a promise -- Gypsies -- The
godfather -- The Eggharts are disgusted -- Hermann's honor --
Beachcombing -- Zed rides -- Annika's surprise -- The harp arrives --
The uncle's story -- Collecting evidence -- The palace of
Grossenfluss -- Switzerland -- Pupil number 126 -- Ragnar Hairybreeks
-- The rescue -- Stefan confesses -- The emptying school -- Is she
coming? -- The riverside hotel -- The letter -- Rocco -- Pauline's
scrapbook -- The Danube steamer --Found day -- Hermann changes his
mind -- The emperor's horse.
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