Chinese Cinderella Book Review

Chinese Cinderella

By: Adeline Yen Mah

Publisher: Laurel Leaf Books

Genre: Memoir

Where I Got It: After one of my friends reading it and saying it was good, I decided to rent it out from the library.

One Sentence Summary: Adeline is a ten-year-old girl whose mother died giving birth to her, and now her father is married again; this makes Adeline feel left out, she’s always the one getting in trouble, and left behind, so she feels like an unwanted daughter.

First Sentence: as soon as I got home from school, Aunt Baba noticed the silver medal dangling from the left breast pocket of my uniform.

First Chapter Review:  The first chapter is really just a warming up to the main characters and what the story is going to be about. In the first chapter, Top of The Class, Adeline receives a silver medal from her kindergarten teacher, and shows it to her closest relative, Aunt Baba. Aunt Baba decides to put it in a safe deposit box, but Adeline finds some pictures of her mother, and asks how her mother died. Aunt Baba refuses to tell her, but soon Adeline realizes she died giving birth to her.

Verdict: after reading this book, I think this is one of the best books I’ve read since reading Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke. I would recommend this for people to read, it’s quite emotional, but I enjoyed every word.

Cover Comments: a little Chinese girl on a front cover, you can tell automatically that she was the main character, and her face, you can see she has had struggle throughout her childhood.