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Summary of "The Princess Diaries"

Fifteen-year-old Mia discovers that her father is the Prince of Genovia and she is the sole heir to the throne. She must decide, by her sixteenth birthday, whether she will live as a princess and move to Genovia or remain in Manhattan where she lives with her artist mom. She must suffer through the indignity of princess lessons at the hands of her stern grandmother.
(A second movie will be in theaters August 11th, 2004)


Summary of the first book

Mia Thermopolis is your average urban ninth grader.
Even though she lives in Greenwich Village with a single mom who is a semifamous painter, Mia still puts on her Doc Martens one at a time, and the most exciting things she ever dreams about are smacking lips with sexy senior Josh Richter, "six feet of unadulterated hotness," and passing Algebra I.
Then Mia's dad comes to town, and drops a major bomb.
Turns out he's not just a European politician as he's always lead her to believe, but actually the prince of a small country!
And Mia, his only heir, is now considered the crown princess of Genovia!
She doesn't even know how to begin to cope: "I am so NOT a princess.... You never saw anyone who looked less like a princess than I do.
I mean, I have really bad hair... and... a really big mouth and no breasts and feet that look like skis."
And if this news wasn't bad enough, Mia's mom has started dating her algebra teacher, the paparazzi is showing up at school, and she's in a huge fight with her best friend, Lilly.
How much more can this reluctant Cinderella handle?


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