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Summary: Great
Review: This book make me want to laugh and cry. This book is similer to cinderella ut is harder.I highly recommand this book.
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Summary: Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Ma
Review: Chinese Cinderella is the story of a young girl called Adeline Yen Ma trying to overcome the bullying of her stepmother, two brothers and elder sister. Set in wartime China, this story gives us an insight into a totally different culture and I could not put it down. You start to feel as if you're actually there and start to think how you would solve Adeline's problems. This is a deeply touching story and brings tears of joy and misery to your eyes. I think this book shows me how lucky I am to have such a caring family and safe home. It is a story of true determination through all odds and teaches the fact that equality is very important. With its perfect happy ending I would recommend Chinese Cinderella to anyone between the ages of 9 and 15 who likes a good, emotional read.
by Katie Brown Age 10.
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Summary: From rags to riches, a true cinderella story!
Review: Yen Mah is a truly inspiring author. Her bibliographical story is not only inspirational yet saddening. To learn of a culture where the fateful death of her mother due to her birth would lead her into a life less of love and to be percieved as bad luck. Or so it would appear to her chinese sibling surroundings.
As we read through the masses of pages we connect to Adeline and feel her pain when her family reject her, besides her admirable Auntie Baba and grandfather. Yet feel her pride when she excells academically. Her only objective in life is to be loved and we take the journey with her in this book to seek it.
I would defy anybody who woudln't even read the opening chapter of this book as you will probably find yourself at the final chapter before you have put it down once!
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Summary: A Chinese Masterpiece!!
Review: Adeline Yen Mah has written a fantastic book after her best-selling book Falling Leaves. In this story Adeline or Wu Mei is given little notice from her family. That is because her mother had died giving birth to Wu Mei and because of that her family considers her bad luck. Without a mother, her Aunt Baba takes care of her and raises her like she would her own daughter. Even though she skips grades and gets higher scores in school, that is not what she really wants but the love and understanding of her family. Then her father marries a European woman named Jeanne. Niang (chinese for mom) disliked Wu Mei very much. Niang spoiled her children and didn't even like her stepchildren. Niang and her father had abandoned her many times in China. Her aunt and uncle had to rescue her from the communists once. Her grandmother and then later her grandfather had also died as well. Niang also beated her for going to her friend's birthday party. Later Wu Mei entered a writing compeitition and she had won. That was when her father noticed her and granted her wish of going away to college with her brothers. This heart- warming story with make you cry as you read! In this book, you learn how Adeline goes through her sad childhood as she tries to find happiness through her life as an unloved child of her parents.
I liked this book because it described what Adeline had to go through when she was a little girl. The people who mostly loved her was only her Aunt Baba and her grandfather YeYe. Her siblings often were jealous of her when she got rewards or attention and they would hit her or steal things from her. Even when Adeline was not at home at night and was lost outside in the rain, her family did not even notice she was gone. And what was so sad is that her father doesn't even remember her birthday!
My favorite part was at the end. That was when Adeline asked her father if she could go to college with her brothers and when she won the international playwriting compeition.
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Summary: Chinese Cinderella
Review: This book is a heart wrenching chronicle of Adeline Yen Mah's childhood from kindergarten to the age of fourteen. Her wealthy, well-educated family shunned her because her mother died giving birth to her. Her biological family consisted of her father, grandparents, three brothers, older sister, and her half-brother and sister. Soon after her mother's death, her father married a young, stylish, and beautiful woman. Niang, as Adeline called her stepmother, physically and emotionally abused Adeline and her siblings, particularly Adeline. Adeline's father stopped caring about his five children with his first wife and lavished his attention on his two children with Niang. Adeline excelled in school, but her father, Niang, and her jealous siblings only continue to hate her more. Only her grandfather, Ye Ye, her Aunt Baba, and the youngest of her three older brothers support her and love her. She never attains what she wants the most--her family's love.I sat down to read this book and didn't get up until I had finished it. It made me cry, and even when I reread it, had the same effect. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Chinese Cinderella
Review: Chinese Cinderella- Adeline Yen Mah was born accused of being responsible for her mother's death. In the family she symbolized bad luck. Chinese Cinderella is a true story about a caring, passive yet unwanted daughter in a Chinese family where she was not loved and no more but a toy for the boys to tease and a "problematic obstacle" that frequently increased the barrier of affection between her and the rest of the family. No matter how hard she tried keeping her patience, holding back her anger, pulling her grades to the top of the class, she just couldn't get her father's attention, affection and love. Her one and only friend PLT, the tragic duck that was chosen out of all the other siblings' pet ducks was killed by their housedog as an experiment to test if it was well trained. The family was under the hands of the cruel and dominant stepmother, Niang, who most disliked and neglected Adeline. Forced to go live in a boarding school in Tianjin, far from the rest of her family, living up in a tragedy as her life, with the encouragement of her Aunt Baba she finally took the steps in search and success of her dream as a writer, who became the author of Chinese Cinderella and Falling Leaves (international bestseller). Readers with a keen sense of morality along with their strong beliefs indulge, enjoy and appreciate an autobiography such as this.
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Summary: Who is She?
Review: This story Chinese Cinderella was really heart touching it brought tears in my eyes throughout the whole story.
In this story Chinese Cinderella, by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline the main character in this story is wondering why she is loved at school while, at the same time, her parents and sibilings don't want her. She is desperatly trying to find her true identity. Adeline lives with her father and her step-mother (Niang), Aunt, YeYe, her 6 sibilings,abd for a while her chick PLT. Adeline really sespises her step-mother and tries to hard to be something to her dad. Her only friends are her aunt and yeye, and the people who praised her at her 1st school. Adelines mother died when she was young. Who is she? Adeline earned A's and was called a genius because of her learning and reading skills. Niang often beats her and she is always being treated differently.
This story is a wonderful story...
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Summary: a quietly strong book
Review: I saw this book at my son's school book fair a while ago, thought it looked good and got it at the library. The subtitle (the true story of an unwanted daughter) is a good summary. The book is sad but beautiful and uplifting in a quiet way. Her childhood and what she goes through is very very sad, but to see how she rises above it, and the few good people that touch and change her life, is really neat and inspiring. The author writes beautifully, and she also does a wonderful job of explaining and drawing you into the Chinese language & culture. I loved the book and recommend it. I may read some of her other books.
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Summary: The Review to an excellent Book
Review: How does a young Chinese girl survive in a family that doesn't even love her? Adeline Yen Mah's life story The Chinese Cinderella gives an answer. She also gives answers to many other questions.
It all started with a young girl named Adeline Yen. She was 3 years old and lived with her father, her stepmother and 5 other brothers and sisters in Tianjn, China. She also lived with 1 stepbrother and 1 stepsister, both younger than her in Tianjn. Adeline's real mother died when she was born. She thought that was the reason all the children and her father were not nice to her.
At home, she was treated very poorly and not treated equally, but when she went to kindergarten she was treated with respect and so were all the other children. When Yen was a little older she and her family moved to Hong Kong after her grandmother died, so they could live with her aunt who owned a bank.
In Hong Kong she lived in a big house and went to school. At school, she met a young girl. They did everything together. One day Adeline was elected class president. However, her parents did not care. A week later her parent's friends came to her house and gave presents to every one. Everyone got little ducklings. Adeline named hers PLT, which stood for Precious Little Treasure. She had it for a long time and the duck and she did every thing together. One day when her father was trying to train their dog he wanted to use 1of the ducklings to see if the dog would eat it or stay in one place. They used Adeline's duckling. The dog did not stay in one place. It quickly got up and chewed it up. Adeline was devastated. She buried her little friend.
Adeline and her Aunt Baba were talking one night in their room when Aunt Baba gave her a coin. Adeline kept it with her forever until her stepmother took it. Her stepmother and her father decided it would be right if Adeline and her Aunt went separate ways. So, they sent Adeline off to boarding school.
At school, she found out you were only allowed to speak English or French. She decided to go to the English direction. She did not speak it fluently but it was satisfactory. Surprisingly at age 13 she was at the top of her class in every subject so she skipped a grade. She was still ahead of everyone else. Still no one in the family cared, and no one wrote to her. One day she saw a contest in the newspaper that was for play writing. She was not sure she would enter. She talked to her grandfather about it and then was sure that she wanted to enter. A couple of months later her grandfather died. Adeline was then taken out of school to go to his funeral.
A week later her father again sent a car to pick her up. It was not because of another death, but because of the writing contest. She quickly ran to her father's room to see what he wanted. She glanced at the newspaper lying on his bed and it said the name of Adeline Yen. Next to it was the script she wrote. Her father said she also received a prize of money! Her father was then proud at last! Not only did she win but also her father agreed for her to go to collage to study to be a doctor.
She then received letter from her aunt. Her aunt told her that Adeline's mother use to tell her a story about a young girl who was treated poorly and was treated unfairly just like Yen. She said it was Called Chinese Cinderella. I think that maybe her aunt was telling Adeline that she was a Chinese Cinderella, and that her mother knew of the message of hope in Cinderella, and would have been happy that it worked out for Adeline. This has been a touching but also calming story. It has put a smile on my face. The author expresses how she felt at certain times. I was thankful that Adeline Yen Mah shared her story with me and I hope if you read it your would be thankful too.
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Summary: Very entertaining!
Review: This book is full of laughs and cries. I enjoyed reading every bit of it. She really is a Chinese Cinderella! I recommend this book to everyone age 12 and up.
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