Cinder

Description:

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, but mostly a forbidden love, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.

subjects: Serie:The_Lunar_Chronicles,  Extraterrestrial beings,  Social classes,  New York Times bestseller,  Overpopulation,  Kings and rulers,  nyt:chapter_books=2011-12-31,  Science Fiction,  Plague,  Honorariums,  Stepfamilies,  Fort Worth Library,  Fiction,  General,  Cyborgs,  Cybernetics,  Fairy Tales & Folklore,  Children's fiction,  Stepfamilies, fiction,  Extraterrestrial beings, fiction,  Sunshine State Reader 2013-2014,  Young adult fiction,  Juvenile works,  Young adult works,  Fiction, general,  Fiction, action & adventure,  Juvenile fiction

People: Linh Cinder,  Queen Levana,  Iko,  Crescent Moon "Cress" Darnel,  Dr. Dmitri Erland,  Sybil Mira,  Linh Adri,  Linh Peony,  Linh Pearl,  Emperor Kai

Places: New Beijing,  Eastern Commonwealth