The Star of Kazan By Eva Ibbotson
Summary: Annika a twelve year old foundling in late ninteenth century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume of jewerly, and soon afterwords a woman claming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes to live in a strangely decreipt mansion in Germany.
Review By Azza: This is an extremely amazing book that I could not put down. It ’s discriptive way of writing is original and unlike any other. Everybody should and have to read it. It is fabulous!! 10/10
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Summary: When Marjan a thirteen year old crippled girl, joins the Sultan’s harem in ancient Perisa, she gathers for the Shahrazad stories which will save the Queen’s life. 
Summary: In a series of poems, fifteen year old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family’s wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.