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Chinese Cinderella was written by Adeline Yen Mah and is published by Puffin Books and its ISBN is 0- 14- 130487- 1 and 9780141304878. This is also a true story about Adeline’s life up to the age of fourteen, and after I’ve read this story about her childhood I thought what a inspiration. This is also a story about a sad and lonely life as Adeline’s mother dies after giving birth to her and throughout her childhood she had always struggled to feel accepted by her father. But from her book I thought one way where she did feel that she gained some acceptance from him was one day when she came first in her class, and as she didn’t get his praise very often she thought she had to prove herself by continuing to get high marks. Then what else stood out in her story is her relationship with her step mother. As one of the conflicts that Adeline and her brothers and sister had with her was that she ordered them to find their own way to get to school but they either had to walk to get there and they weren’t allowed to borrow money from their Aunt Baba or grandfather.

Adeline was also the only kid from her father’s first marriage that remained defiant, and in doing so she was able to keep her independence. Adeline also had friends at her first school and was voted by them as the one that they thought would succeed the most.