The Princess Diaries

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Summary: The intimate diary of a hypomanic teenager
Review: For fifteen-year-old Mia Thermopolis, life doesn't get much worse than high school. She's too tall, too thin, and too flat-chested. She hates algebra; she's fighting with her best friend; and her mother is dating her math teacher! She has a weird haircut and the only boy she likes is intimidated by her intelligence. Then the day comes when her divorced parents sit her down together and tell her that, since her father is the king of Genovia, she's the princess! Now, on top of everything else, she has princess lessons with her prissy grandmother and a slew of popular kids who only wish to befriend her because it's cool to hang out with a princess.

This narrator is Go Ask Alice if Alice's drug of choice were cocaine. Maybe the subtitle should be: Intimate Diary of a Hypomanic Teenager. She makes me tired just listening to her frenetic thoughts! But, then, once I got used to Mia, I found her oddly appealing. It's refreshing to have a teenage heroine with a brain in her head who thinks about more than just boys and makeup and isn't being used as an object lesson on the evils of divorce, drugs, or sex. Her constant awfulizing even becomes funny after awhile. If you can take this book as a cute fairy tale, it says some nice things about adolescents learning to accept themselves and their families for what they are.

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Review: first book by meg cabot i've read, and this book was PERFECT since i like reading diary forms. this book had made me a BIG FAN of Meg's.
please go to her web page at MegCabot.Com!

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Summary: Very entertaining!
Review: Great book, great story, great plots, great princessy personality, great funny lines!...hey, you know how the story goes right?

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Summary: Cute Book!!
Review: The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot was a very fun and enjoyable book to read. It has been recommended to me many times by a handful of different people, but I just never got around to reading it. But once I picked it up, I couldn't stop reading it! I read the whole book in one night!

This book was based on a main character named Mia Thermopolis who isn't really the most `popular' girl at her school. Well, actually, she isn't even close to being the most popular girl at Albert Einstein High School; she's probably the biggest nerd there. Mia has big, dirty blonde, poofy hair that she can't control, a flat chest, (size 32A), is 5'11", and has size 10 ½ feet. Not exactly prime material for the coolest guy in school, Josh Richter.

Just when Mia already has enough stress in her life, her dad comes and visits from Genovia to `talk' to Mia about something very important. Meeting her dad at the fanciest hotel in Manhattan, Mia finds out that he can't have anymore children, as a result of testicular cancer. She doesn't know why this relates to her, because she doesn't understand why her dad needs another kid, when he's got her right in front of him. But soon to find out, Mia's dad explains to her that he is the Prince of Genovia, and since she is his only heir, she will inherit the throne once he passes away.

How will Mia take this unexpected news? Will she get the guy of her dreams? What will happen if she does accept the role as the Princess of Genovia? To find out, you will have to read this amazing book by Meg Cabot.