Book Count: 65
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society By: Adeline Yen Mah
Fiction: Historic, youth 229 pages 2005
This is the story of a girl living in China during WWII. She lives with her dad and his girlfriend who hates her. As her name is the same as the girl in China’s version of Cinderella and she basically has an evil step-mother, her English name is Chinese Cinderella or CC for short. One day after she is kicked out of her home for upsetting her father’s girlfriend she joins up with a group called the Dragon Society of Wandering Knights. With them she finds a place that she is happy and an adoptive family. She learns Kung Fu and becomes part of the Chinese resistance against the Japanese. She also helps out downed American pilots that were part of the Doolittle Raiders. (An actual group in WWII.) This book also ends with historical information and also has the Chinese zodiac, glossary of Chinese words and phrases and a bibliography.
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