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Summary: something out of the ordinary
Review: the princess diaries was a great book for me. It's about dealing problems when you're a teenager involving your mother dating someone you'll never thought to have happened, dealing with your grandma that criticizes you and finding out something that will change your whole life....and getting into fights with your best friend and of course the dream of going out with your crush actually coming true! but not everything stays perfect for awhile.....And you realize that friends are always true.
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Summary: A laugh-out-loud novel with an offbeat narrative style
Review: Okay, so it's unlikely that any 15-year-old in the real world would discover that she's a princess, but the author tells that unrealistic plotline in a sensible and believable way.
The thing that drew me to the book was its laugh-out-loud humor and the sympathy I felt for Mia when, say, she and her best friend got in a fight. It's a fun read you'll whip through pretty quickly that leaves you wanting more.
An important note: if you've seen the movie, don't judge the book. I saw the movie and then the next day went out and bought the book. Disney was the worst company to make this book into a movie, and rate it G- the best part of the book is Grandmere, the Queen, a chain-smoking, Sidecar-drinking old woman with tattooed eyebrows and a surface hatrid toward her granddaughter. Julie Andrews as a regal, beautiful and kind woman in the movie doesn't cut it. Read the book.
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Summary: The Princess Diaries
Review: This book is great for teenage girls who normally don't like to read. I loved it because Mia is so much like me from the hair to the feet and easy for anyone to relate to.
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Summary: ~*Love it*~
Review: I just got this book like 2 days ago and I finished it yesturday. I read the sequal first cause I saw the movie and thought I knew what happened. AS IF. The movie is totally differnet from the book. Like in the movie Mia lives in San Francisco and is like 16. In the book Mia lives in New York City and is my age 14. In the movie the dad is dead. In the book the dad is alive. In the movie the grandma is great and nice and does not speak french. In the book the grandma is a mean old witch that only speaks in french cause she hates english. It is a great book.
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Summary: Witty and funny.
Review: The novel, "The Princess Diaries" by Meg Cabot, is excellent and pure fun! In the novel, we meet 13-year-old Mia Thermopolis, who lives with her single artist mother in Manhattan, New York. Mia seems like your typical American teenage girl: calls herself a freak, is practically flunking algebra--her least favorite subject, and her crush, Josh Ritcher, doesn't seem to notice her. Plus, the school's most popular girl is always making fun of her. Life just couldn't get any worse, right? Wrong! Now not only is Mia's mother dating her algebra teacher after he asked her out during a parent/teacher conference and at the fact that Mia has to have her algebra teacher tutor her every day after school, but Mia's father comes to town to tell her that she is heir to the throne of a small European country called Genovia...and her strict grandmother is making her take PRINCESS LESSONS! Mia spills all her troubles in her "diary". She talks a lot about her best friend--a certified genius--Lilly Moscovitz. She talks about her two crushes--Josh Ritcher and her big secret crush, Lilly's older brother, Michael Moscovitz. She talks about how she really feels about her mother dating Mr. Gianini. Mia talks about how much she hates her arch rival, the popular, pretty, cheerleader Lana Weinberger, who is dating Josh and always finds a way to make fun of Mia. She talks about how she can't stand her grandmother and the princess lessons. What happens when the world finds out she is a princess. And how she is absolutely, positively NOT going to move to Genovia if her life depended on it. This book was very well-written and the other two installments of "The Princess Diaries" are just as excellent and hilarious. This novel is definitely one of my all-time favorites and I'm looking forward to more. If you are a teen girl, I'd definitely check this one out--it's a classic.Final Grade: A+
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Summary: The Princess Diaries
Review: This great book is about how nerdy girl(Mia) finds out that she is the princess of Genovia. She does not like it at all. Plus her mother is dating Mr.G, the algebra teacher! And she has to have a body guard follow her arond, just like the freak Tina. But, since Lilly (Mia's best friend) got in a fight, Tina and Mia become friends.
I think kid's who would this book would be from 10-13 years old. I'am 10 years old if you want to know. I really enjoyed this book. It's one you can't put down. In the paragraph obove I explained why. Anther good book: "Where the heart is" by Billie Letts.
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Summary: Princess rules
Review: You live a normal life. You're Mom's a painter,you live in New York,you have a spunky best friend,you have a crush on the school hottie,and you adore your over 25pound cat,Fat Louie,who likes to eat socks.Then one day,it changes.Your father drops a bombshell:due to his infertility,he will never have kids again.
And,while he lead you to belive he was a politician for Genovia, he is in fact the reigning monarch,and you are the sole heir to the throne.Meaning you will grow up to rule a country.Now you must endure "princess lessons" or "torture sessions",as you call it,with your rude Grandmere("she is scary.Scarrier than Freddy Kreuger and Jason combined,in fact.No wonder Grandpere had a heart attack,he must have rolled over one morning and got a real good look at his wife")And your mother is dating your algebra teacher,a subject that you are in fact failing.And now,during one seemingly innocent princess lessen,you are given a make-over, which includes dying your hair blonde.This leads to a fight with your best friend,and having to face the fact you might be developing some sort of freakish crush on computer nerd/cutie Michael Moscovitz,who also happens to be 3 years older than you.And your best friends older brother.
This is the life of Mia Thermopolis,unfolded in a series of hillarious diary entries.I enjoyed this story because Mia is so much like your normal,offbeat teenager.Her teen shallowness is often apparent,and the fact that she is oblivious to the attentions of Michael Moscovitz are often annoying,but Mia is a sweet princess,with a big heart.
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Summary: A Must-Read for Young Adults!
Review: This book is great. It is about a typical teenage girl named Mia Thermopolis. But then again, she became Amelia Migeorette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo. She has an intelligent friend named Lilly Moscivitz. Usually she gives Mia a hard time on things in this book. Lana Weinberger also gives Mia a hard time too. Mia likes Josh Richter, who's a jock and a senior. He wants to go to Harvard or Yale someday. Same with Michael Moscivitz, the one that Mia also has a crush on.
Then Mia turns out to be a princess from Genovia. Her mom dates her Algebra teacher, Mr. Gianni. She has no date for the Cultural Diversity Dance. She kinda turns out to. Josh Richter. He breaks up with Lana because Mia is a princess.
Poor Mia. She has no boyfriend yet. Or a secret admirer. At the end, Grandmere helps The Blind Guy, but turns out that he is not blind at all. Mia meets this rich girl quiet girl named Tina Hakim Baba. She has a bodyguard like Mia. They became friends when Mia and Lilly got in a fight about Mia being a princess and all.
So this book was great. I just wish that Mia didn't have to be a vegatarian or flat-chested or have NO boyfriend. But read this. This is great.
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Summary: Sarcastic Humor at it's Best
Review: Readers will fall in love with Mia Thermopolis, who lives in New York City with her artistic mother and cat, Fat Louie. Mia thinks she is just a normal girl (don't we all) and busies herself worrying about public speaking instead of worldly affairs. That is, until her father breaks it to her that she is the one and only heir to the Genovian throne. That is, she's a princess. As one would imagine, after finding this out Mia's world turns pretty much upside down. She is forced to take "princess lessons" from her grandmother, the Genovian Queen, and must change her entire wardrobe, attitude, hairstye, you name it. Mia's journal entries during this time in her life are hilariously funny and interesting. For a first time novelist, Meg Cabot has certainly hit it off. I reccomend not only the first book in the series but the entire collection. Though quick reads, the books are entertaining and will keep you guessing, even when you're reading them for the fifth time in a row.
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Summary: A Fun and Quirky Read
Review: So after reading some of the numerous reviews of this book (there are over 280!) I don't know that there is much left to say, but here goes... I discovered this book quite by accident (while searching for a book for my son). I knew of the movie and had wanted to see it, but hadn't gotten around to it. I had no idea that the story had been created in novel form first. A firm believer in "reading-the-book-before-seeing-the-movie" I decided to check it out. Once I got home and cracked the book I couldn't put it down- I finished it in a day! The writing is a delight. The characters are richer, quirkier, funnier, more real than portrayed in the movie. Yes, I ran out and rented the movie soon after finishing the book and while it's good and I love Dame Julie Anderson it's got nothing on the book or the "real" Grandmere. Like most Disneyfied things the movie smoothed over many of the bumps and foibles of real life, giving you a disinfected version, which is "nice" but not as interesting as the book. I love the chaos of Mias life and her reactions to it. I love how with true teenage style she can cope with the disolution of her parents marriage, but not with her wayward hair. Cabot's ability to take me back to a time in my life that was both frightening and horrible yet somehow easier, more carefree is uncanny, unsettling, and thoroughly enjoyable. Needless to say I ran back to the library and got the second book (also fun) and I'm looking forward to reading the third (there's a waiting list). :-) If you're looking for a fun, summer, beach read- this is your book. Whether you're 14 or 40 I think you'll find something to relate to or that makes you giggle. Enjoy!
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