The Cinderella Society by Kay Cassidy is a wonderful, wonderful book for teenage girls. I read it and passed it directly on to my teenager.
The protagonist is a 16 year old girl, Jess Parker. She’s an outsider and a big target for bullies. One day she gets an invitation for The Cinderella Society, a secret society of the most popular girls in school. Finally, when joining TCS, Jess has the chance to have friends and to just fit in. Being in TCS, you get to reinvent yourself, with a makeover and all. You go to classes to learn who you really are, how to make yourself better and into the person you want to be and, at the same time, to learn what the Cindys are all about.
Unfortunately, for every ‘good guy’ there has to be a ‘bad guy’. Where there are The Cinderella Society, there is also The Wickeds. The Wickeds target innocent girls to do their biddings for them. They are also the ones who were bullying Jess since she started school.
Upon joining TCS, “Jess discovers there’s more to being a Cindy than reinventing yourself on the outside. She has unknowingly become part of a centuries-old battle of good vs. evil, and now the Cindys in charge need Jess for a mission that could change everything.
Overwhelmed, Jess wonders if The Cinderella Society made a mistake in choosing her. Is it a coincidence her new boyfriend doesn’t want to be seen with her in public? And is this glamorous, secret life even what she wants, or will she risk her own happy ending to live up to the expectations of her new sisters?”
For me, this book was really inspirational. For someone who never wears the ‘right’ clothes and was never really in the “in-crowd”, it sort of makes me want to go back and try high school all over again. (I said, sort of.) It’s learning to use the positive things in your life for the good. Don’t focus on the bad things about you, focus on the things you are wonderful at and go with those.
I said that this was a wonderful book for teenage girls, but I take that back. There is a message for anyone, no matter what age you are. Anyone can learn from this book. Even though this isn’t really what I usually read; it doesn’t have any faeries, werewolves, vampires, etc. anywhere in the book, but I fully recommend you read it. It’s a very easy read and you won’t be disappointed.