The Princess Diaries
By Meg Cabot
(HarperTrophy, Mass Market Paperback, 9780380814022, 304pp.)
Publication Date: July 2001
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Media Tie-In, Royalty (kings queens princes princesses knights etc.)
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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 grandmere, 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"?











