The Star Of Kazan
Annika, a twelve-year-old foundling in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, and soon afterwards a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: abandoned children, identity, mothers and daughters, jewelry, mystery and detective stories [X], vienna (austria), austria [X], germany, individuality, mother-daughter relationship, mystery fiction
Captive Witness
Trouble plagues a student tour through Europe as Nancy becomes involved in a plot to smuggle refugee children across the Austrian border from Eastern Europe.
FIC
year: 1981
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Language Of Spells
Grisha the dragon is born in the Black Forest in 1803, the last year any dragon was born, and while young he was trapped by the emperor's sorcerer, and turned into a teapot, which was frustrating but kept him alive while magic and other dragons were disappearing--until one day he meets Maggie, a poet's daughter, and the two of them set out to discover what happened to all the other dragons.
FIC
year:
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: adventure and adventurers, magic, dragons, mystery and detective stories [X], adventure stories, austria [X], vienna (austria), detective and mystery fiction, action and adventure fiction