Meyer, M. (2012). Cinder. New
York: Feiwel and Friends.
Cinder is a cyborg and a gifted
mechanic. She lives with her stepmother
and two stepsisters, Peony and Pearl.
The city is fighting a deadly virus called letumosis for which there is
no cure. The prince, Kai, brings an
android to Cinder to repair for reasons he doesn’t want to say. As Peony contracts the deadly virus, Cinder
is sent to be a test subject for a cure.
She is discovered to also be Lunar, a people who live on the moon, and
the Queen wants her executed. Cinder
discovers her past and why some people want her dead and others want her alive.
Cinder is set in the future in New Beijing. I would say it is based on Cinderella’s story
loosely. There are some similarities
like sleeping in the coals, stepmother and stepsisters, and meeting the
prince. But because it is set in the
future, the story is so different from the original and there are some things
like the Queen wanting to kill her, which actually reminded me of Snow White. With
the story being set in the future, androids and robots are on every corner (it
seems) and Cinder being a cyborg, not only is this book fantasy, but it falls
squarely in the genre of science fiction.
This would be great for middle school and also for literature circles
with themes of acceptance, discrimination, or social classes.
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