The book “Chinese Cinderella” by Adeline Yen Mah is a heart touching true story about an unwanted girl named Adeline, who longed for the compassion and love of her parent’s. While giving birth to Adeline, her mother passed away from child birth complications, leaving her father with five children to care for, including a new born. Four years later, her grandmother Nai Nai also passed away leaving her father no choice but to remarry. Soon after, her father met and fell deeply in love with a woman named Niang, who becomes Adeline’s new stepmother. Adeline’s father and Niang had two children of their own, a boy and a girl, as well as Adeline and her three older brothers and older sister. A year later, Adeline’s family moved to Shanghai along with her Grandfather YeYe and her Aunt Baba. As Adeline grew older, she began to notice that her stepmother treated her and her full brothers and sisters differently than her stepmother treated her own kids, leaving Adeline to feel unwanted and unloved. A few examples of this favoritism include their living arrangements, the food they ate, and fashion trends. In Shainghai, the family lived in a three level apartment, Niang, her husband, their son and daughter lived on the first floor, while Adeline, YeYe, and Baba, and the other children lived on a separate floor. During this time Adeline and her full siblings were only allowed to eat three tasteless meals a day with congee and preserved vegetables every morning. Whereas her half siblings were allowed to eat whatever they wanted, at anytime they chose, usually eating eggs and bacon for breakfast. When Adeline asked the cook about why she could not have bacon, she was told that “I have my orders; bacon is reserved for the first floor only” (p. 44). Every year on New Year’s Eve, it is a tradition in China that new clothes should be worn to symbolize a new beginning. Adeline and