A Cinderella Story: Movie Novelization [Paperback]

Robin Wasserman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2004 | Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Cinderella

Tween movie alert! Top teen Hilary Duff stars as a Valley-girl Cinderella!

Once upon a time: Samantha, a San Fernando Valley teen, lived with her widowed dad. Then, he fell into the marital clutches of an evil stepmom. Now, Sam’s at the mercy of her step-monster, and stepsibs. A ray of light is her IM buddy, a guy who calls himself Nomad. They agree to meet at the Halloween ball-only when he’s revealed to be the school’s hottie football star, she panics and bails at the last second. His only clue to finding her? She dropped her cell phone. Scholastic’s movie novelization captures the fun of this romantic romp, and includes souvenir photos of the stars.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (July 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 043965341X
• ISBN-13: 978-0439653411
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,803,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a Cinderella Story by janet jackson, November 3, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: A Cinderella Story: Movie Novelization (Paperback)

This story was about a princess who lives with her stepmom and 2 stepsisters, because her dad died in an earthquake. Her stepmom is taking over her dads resteraunt now, and cinderella has to work there. She hates her life. She's like her stepmoms slave. The only good part about her life, is her instant messanger buddy Nomad. She knows he goes to her school but little does she know he's the most popular guy in school. And little does he know,she is the loser of the school. One day he asks her to go to the halloween dance with him. So she met him there and finds out who it is. And she wont take her mask off cause if he finds out who she is he wont like her anymore. They go walking and then she leaves realy fast. Then he finds out who she is and doesn't like her anymore. Then he thinks about it and knows that he can't just let his princess go. So he runs after her and they live happily ever after together. This was a great book because i like books that COULD be true but aren't realy true.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Another Fairy Tale Story, September 5, 2004

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Teeny_Bopper "Tara" (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Cinderella Story: Movie Novelization (Paperback)

"A Cinderella Story: Movie Novelization" is great. I saw the movie first so I already knew what was going to happen but it was cool because the author described everything with more detail. The movie was good because you could actually see "Sam" (Hilary Duff) and "Austin" (Chad M. Murray) interact in real life. But the book had a certain charm and mystery to it. The booked also rocked because it came with tons of pictures from the movie!!!!!!! Chad is so fine and Hilary is so perfectly pretty!

4.0 out of 5 stars A Twist for Cinderella, March 6, 2007

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CCS Middle School (Fairless Hills, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Cinderella Story: Movie Novelization (Paperback)

Have you ever wondered what would happen if Cinderella was based on a human teenage girl?

In this book a girl named Samantha is living with her dad after a very tragic car accident that her mother got into. They have a huge house right next to a lake; it looks like a castle. Now do you see were Cinderella comes in? Samantha is sad about her mom but she is having the time of her life with her dad. Then Samantha's dad gets married to and evil women named Fiona. She had already had two daughters; they were all happy well most of them were. Later in the story Sam started to live with Fiona and Fiona's daughters because one day Sam's dad died in an earthquake while trying to save Fiona. Sam hasn't been herself since then. She was going to school, working at the Diner, but Sam's top priority was to find out who "Mystery Prince" was, and get into a good college.

The night of the Masquerade Dance came and Sam had no one to go with. She wasn't going to go either if her shift wasn't over or the house wasn't spotless. Fiona wouldn't let her go unless all that was finished. Luckily her very close friend at the Diner had a dress for Sam so she went to the dance as Cinderella. I would tell you the end but that's the best part so if you want to find out you'll have to read the book.

What I think was good in the book was the beginning and the end. What could have been better was the middle because they didn't tell very much. I would recommend this book to mostly 8-13 year olds because if your younger it will be hard to understand, and if your older it will be a little immature.