Cinder

by Marissa Meyer
390 pages

Looking for something to read while I was waiting for some books to come in, I downloaded the first 5 chapters for free and got started. I was immediately hooked and downloaded the whole book shortly after.

Yes, it’s another Cinderella story and you can easily see how the characters fit in within the fairy tale we know and love, but it still was a very intriguing story, set in New Bejing, China after WWIV
with Cinder(ella) as a cyborg.

The ending was left open since the 2nd-4th novels in this series are lined up to be released 2013-15.

The Salmon Princess: an Alaska Cinderella Story

by Mindy Dwyer 30 p.

This picture book was a neat adaptation of the Cinderella story in Alaska. I really liked the illustrations, because it had somewhat a feel like totem pole style decorations. I liked the story itself too. It focused around a girl whose awful stepmother and stepbrothers make her constantly clean fish and keep her surrounded in fish guts. Plus they won't let her go to the Salmon Festival, because there are too many fish she needs to clean still.

This was a neat story. I liked that the shoe she left behind was a rubber boot that everybody. This would be a great story for a lot of children. I think it's best for school age, K through 5th grade. It would be a wonderful book for a teacher doing a geography lesson on the states or fairy tales.

Kel