Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story

Hace mucho tiempoaa long time agoathere lived a beautiful young woman named Adelita. So begins the age-old tale of a kind-hearted young woman, her jealous stepmother, two hateful stepsisters, and a young man in search of a wife. The young man, Javier, falls madly in love with beautiful Adelita, but she disappears from his fiesta at midnight, leaving him with only one clue to her hidden identityaa beautiful rebozoa shawl. With the rebozo in place of a glass slipper, this favorite fairy tale takes a delightful twist. Tomie dePaolaas exquisite paintings, filled with the folk art of Mexico, make this a Cinderella story like no other.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 08/01/2004
ISBN: 9780756930899
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 11.00h x 9.10w x 0.40d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 59601 / Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story
Reading Level: 3.3 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5