Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle. Interest Level: YA ATOS Book Level: 5.8 AR Interest Level: MG AR Points: 14 AR Quiz: 148727EN Reading Counts Level: 5.2 Reading Counts Points: 21 Lexile Measure: 790.