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Contributor(s): Napoli, Donna Jo (Author)

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ISBN: 0689861788     ISBN-13: 9780689861789
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2006
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Annotation: From the award-winning author of "Beast" and "Breath" comes this thrilling and haunting retelling of the Cinderella story that returns the much-loved fairy tale to its Chinese roots.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Asia
- Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2004000365
Age Level: 12-17
Grade Level: 7-12
Lexile Measure: 800(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.1" W x 6.9" L (0.20 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Chinese
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/17/2006 pg. 160
Kliatt 09/01/2006 pg. 26
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 82027
Reading Level: 5.4   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 6.0
 
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Publisher Description:
YOUNG XING XING IS BOUND.

Bound to her late father's second wife and daughter. Bound to a life of servitude as a young girl in ancient China, where a woman is valued less than livestock. Bound to be alone, with no parents to arrange for a suitable husband. Xing Xing spends her days taking care of her half sister, Wei Ping, who cannot walk because of her foot bindings, the painful tradition for girls who are fit to be married. Even so, Xing Xing is content to practice her gift for poetry and calligraphy, and to dream of a life unbound by the laws of family and society.

But all of this is about to change as Stepmother, who has spent nearly all of the family's money, grows desperate to find a husband for Wei Ping. Xing Xing soon realizes that this greed and desperation may threaten not only her memories of the past, but also her dreams for the future.


Contributor Bio(s): Napoli, Donna Jo: - Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. Her novel Zel was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and a School Library Journal Best Book, and a number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Visit her at DonnaJoNapoli.com.
 
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