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The Best Young Adult Science Fiction Books
Estelle Francis, Children
The first book in Marissa Meyer’s New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder is a futuristic retelling of the fairy-tale Cinderella. The setting for this YA science fiction novel is ‘New Beijing’, a city vastly overpopulated with humans and androids alike. Though plagued by a deadly pandemic that ravages the population, the threats to New Beijing aren’t simply limited to this planet, as an intergalactic threat looms from the ruthless Lunars, a race of people that occupy the earth’s moon. Our protagonist, the young cyborg Cinder, is deemed a second-class citizen for her mechanical components. Reviled by her cruel stepmother, Cinder’s life is transformed when she finds herself at the centre of this interplanetary conflict.
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