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Fourteen-year-old Mia Thermopolis gets the shock of her life when her father tells her that she's not just an ordinary combat-boot wearing teen vegetarian Greenpeace activist,...Read more
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Princess Mia + Meg Cabot= Awesome!
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The beginning to a wonderful series.

Your normal, average girl finds out she is a Princess, making her life, well, not so normal anymore.

Mia is an inte...Read more
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Every Bit as Enjoyable as the Movie
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I read this book after I saw the movie. The book is fun to read and I think is even better than the movie (which I also liked). It is all diary entries and "essays"...Read more

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (2001, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Meg Cabot | Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books | Language: English

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Fourteen-year-old Mia Thermopolis gets the shock of her life when her father tells her that she's not just an ordinary combat-boot wearing teen vegetarian Greenpeace activist, but the princess of Genovia, a tiny country tucked into Europe. Immediately horrified, things only take a turn for the worse when Mia is forced to have princess lessons with her evil Grandmere after school everyday. Can Mia's life possibly get worse? Absolutely: her mother is dating her algebra teacher. This is the first book in the hilarious Princess Diaries series.

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Author:Meg Cabot
Language:English
Publisher:HarperCollins Children's Books
Series:Princess Diaries
Format:Paperback
ISBN-10:0380814021
ISBN-13:9780380814022

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Edition Description:Reprint

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Length:283 pages
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:5.6 oz

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Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne. Reprint.

She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom...

News Flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo meets her at the airport!)

Downer: Dad can't have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.)

Shock of the Century: Like it or not, Mia Thermopolis is prime princess material.

Mia must take princess lessons from her dreaded grandmére, the dowager princess of Genovia, who thinks Mia has a thing or two to learn before she steps up to the throne.

Well, her father can lecture her until he's royal-blue in the face about her princessly duty -- no way is she moving to Genovia and leaving Manhattan behind. But what's a girl to do when her name is Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo?

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"[A]s hilarious and enjoyable as its predecessors....Cabot's fresh, fast-paced voice catches the new reader up with the important details so that having missed the first three episodes doesn't get in the way of enjoying this one."
Kirkus Reviews (03/15/2003)

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Princess Mia + Meg Cabot= Awesome!

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The beginning to a wonderful series.

Your normal, average girl finds out she is a Princess, making her life, well, not so normal anymore.

Mia is an interesting and down to earth girl that almost any reader can relate to. Throughout the entire Princess Diaries series, you watch her grow up and you experience her great times, her successes, her failures, and her heartbreaks.

The story is written very well, and I can honestly say that during the series, I cried with Mia numerous times.

This first book is great, and it's just the beginning to something even more wonderful. Pick it up, read it, and you won't be disappointed.
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Every Bit as Enjoyable as the Movie

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I read this book after I saw the movie. The book is fun to read and I think is even better than the movie (which I also liked). It is all diary entries and "essays" written by Mia, the main character. She starts out as a gawky teenager, but unlike most of us who just need to learn how to grow into adulthood, she has to grow into a young woman capable of appearing to be - and being able to be - the ruler of a small country. All in short order. Talk about pressure! And she didn't even know she was royalty until this bomb was dropped on her...

Anyway, I really like the book, if you haven't figured that out by now. I'm glad the movie came out, otherwise I never would have thought to buy the book! I also appreciate reading a book where teenage angst and coming of age is believably restricted to a PG rating!
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Can't Wait...

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I've wanted to read the books, so I decided to check on here to get them cheaper than the book store. I haven't had a chance to read the books yet because of school, but I am very excited. I have read the synopsis and the reviews, and I can't wait to have time to read them. They go into so much more detail than the movie. There's 15 books (I think. I only have the first 5).
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Best princess book thats a must read before you watch the movie

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This book was a great book to read for young teens. No matter how detailed the movies is, the book is or has a better experience. The book can catch the reader's attention in a matter of pages. This book might even be one of those that u can not put down late at night. Its also the kind that you want to find out what happens on the next page or the next entry. I'd recommend this book to teens that like romance, comedy and most of all fantasies.
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