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 [X], jewelry, mystery and detective stories, vienna (austria), austria [X], germany, individuality, mother-daughter relationship [X], mystery fiction
Play To The Angel
In Vienna in 1938, in the shadow of an increasingly dangerous Nazi Germany, twelve-year-old Greta pursues her dream of becoming a concert pianist like her dead brother Kurt, despite a lack of support from her widowed mother.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: piano, music, mothers and daughters [X], historical fiction, pianos, vienna (austria), austria [X], mother-daughter relationship [X]