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Summary: The story of your average teenage girl...
Review: This book interested me after hearing that the Princess Diaries movie was based on a series. While the movie was for younger ages, I was curious as to how the books were. The story is about Mia Thermopolis, your average fourteen-year-old high school girl. She lives with her artist mother in New York City. Mia wishes that she was a beautiful teen who dated Josh Richter, only the cutest guy at Albert Einstein High. When she learns that her father, the Prince of Genovia, cannot have any more children and that she is the sole heir to the throne, she feels horrified. Soon, she has to take princess lessons with Grandmere, and she fights with Lilly (her best friend). Could things actually get any worse? Then, Mia befriends Tina Hakim Baba, a rich girl who also has to go around with a bodyguard, even in school. Soon, things start to eventually get better for Mia. This was a great book and very entertaining. Don't watch the movie first, read this, the story that any teenage girl could relate to.
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Summary: The Princess Diaries
Review: This book had a great sense of humor. Mia Thermopolis, who lives in San Fransisco, is your typical freshman high school NERD. She hangs out with her one best friend, Lily, who has her own tv show, Lily tells it like it is. She was living her own independant life with her single mother until her royal grandmother from Genovia comes in town and shares the news Mia really didn't want to hear. As it turns out, Mia's mom was married to the prince of Genovia, which makes Mia the princess after her fathers time on the throne is over. Mia can't believe it. Here she is one day a nerd at the local private high school, and the next day she is taking princess lessons from her grandmother! Will she proceed to take the throne or turn it down? Meanwhile, her mom starts dating her algebra teacher, which makes things harder because not only does she hate her algebra teacher, but she is also flunking his class! It really made me want to read the sequal, which is also a very good book.
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Summary: Don't let your child read this book!
Review: I read this book expecting a satirical, cute story akin to the movie, The Princess Diaries. Boy was I wrong! The movie is nothing like the book, and for good reason! Disney couldn't have upheld a family-friendly reputation if they had of released the movie more than loosely based on the book! For any mothers considering this book for their child, don't do it! It deals with very immoral issues as acceptable, and this book has been recommended to children no less! Please just go to a bookstore and read some of the content of this story, and judge for yourself.
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Summary: Princess for Life
Review: I really liked Princess Diaries. The author wrote it so you could really relate to the story. Mia was just a normal girl who went to school everyday like we do, but then her grandmother and her dad showed up and everything went chaotic. She found out she was a princess and then it was all over school and everywhere else. How embarrasing!
The author described everything so well, and thats what made it good because you were never confused and you felt what Mia was going through. Even though she was a princess she was still a ninth grader and no one should think differntly of her.
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Summary: A wonderful book not suited for readers under 12
Review: ...Ok i read this book many months before i even learned that they were making a movie. You cannot watch the movie before reading the book. It takes away all the magic and realism. It seems when they were making the movie they forgot to consult the book. They completely changed Meg Cabots work. The changed the setting from New York to San Francisco, Changed Mr. G's name, and called Lars Joe. Terrible movie excellent book. It's a classic makover tale, which in the movies stinks but in books are great. They talk about the normal things in a girls life. Sexuality, or lack of, guys, best friends, best friends cute older brother, how to get a boyfriend and when you get one, how you could get him to kiss you. Mia's world was just like a normal person, until she found out that her dad is steril due to treatment for cancer. Make sure you read the sequals. There are going to be 6 total she has 3 currents ly and the 4th Princess in Waiting will be out in March. Plenty are looking forward to it...
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Summary: Recommended to me by a 12-year old
Review: There's a girl who volunteers at one of the places I work, and she made it clear that I would have no rest until I read this book from cover to cover. She's read the whole series, and has even written the author on a couple of occasions. I read the book to make her happy, and it wasn't too bad. My major complaint, I guess, is thinking back to my own high school days and comparing them with those of Mia. I know Mia feels like a freak, but there are other tragedies in the world other than being flat-chested, which gets mentioned just about every third page. Sometimes I just wanted to yell "Enough Already!" However, for the most part, the book was pretty entertaining. It's interesting to see how a character reacts to NOT wanting to be a princess, rather than the assumption that any girl would be delighted. Mia's definately a girl living in the current times, what with broken homes, and instant messaging, and friends who, even at that age, want to psychoanalize everything. Yet, this is the world that Mia holds dear, and this is the story of how she gets thrown for a huge loop.
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Summary: Great fun!
Review: Oh what a book!
The stunning success of the Princess Diaries may be partially due to the average film, but the book deserves credits of its own. It is funny, sensitive and quirky, and does that which very few teen books do: effectively explores the life of the teen geek! Being one myself, I was very pleased at this. Cabot paints realistic characters (I'm in love with Michael myself), realistic scenarios, and invents some wonderful people who you will laugh with (and in Lana's case, at).
Be warned though, this is VERY lightweight. That doesn't detract from it, but it's... fluffy.
But anyway, I love this book. Great for cheering up blue days (or any day)
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Summary: Princess Diaries
Review: This book is about an unpopular girl named Amelia.Call her Mia for short.She goes to Albert Einstein school.Shes a freshman.Her best friend is Lilly .Suddenly her dad the prince of Genovia tells her that shes going to be the princess
of Genovia.Grandmere teaches her princess skills and teaches Mia to act like a princess.Now she can't hide from the spotlight and all those freeky reporters.So this book is about a girls life that changes after finding out that she's the princess of Genovia.
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Summary: where did this story go?...
Review: Helooooooo?... What happened to this book? Could Mia be stuipd engouh to not note the "speical privalges" she recived when she went to Genovia? It seems that this whole book is baased on i'm a freak i'll never amount to anything,etc. Where is your self-confidance girl? When she find's out she's a princess it's all this is terrible oh my god,etc. She should think wow this is my chance for people to make me beatiful,etc. With the whole i'm ugly, well everybody has there flaws and you just have to live with your's. I think that if my mom started to date my math teacher i would find it pleasant as he could help me with my homework he can show me how to do this i don't understand. I have had many crushes and realize that you think he/she doen't like you but Mia you really just need to sollow your pride and ask him out. I think Mia is NOT an optimist and it just ruins the whole book. She dentifly needs to look on the up side of things. I think this story has good structure but just never got off the ground.
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Summary: Princess Diaries
Review: I thought that Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot was very good. I liked how she told about a 9th grade life. I was so real. My life is just like Mia's. Everything about is was so undescribable. Most authors only think what it like in an teenage girls life, but Meg Cabot wrote this book like she was there in 9th grade, like she WAS Mia. I just loved this book. I couldn't put it down. I read it all in one day. What a great book!
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