

Gianni, whose subject Mia is currently failing. She begins keeping a journal after her mother begins dating her Algebra teacher, Mr. Mia Thermopolis is an average urban ninth grader living in Greenwich Village with her single, liberal mother and semi-famous painter, Helen Thermopolis. Throughout the story Mia also makes another friend named Tina, who is shunned because of her overprotective father, who makes her have a bodyguard. Mia goes to her Grand-mère's Plaza Hotel room in order to begin princess training, where she starts to develop into a great princess. After this they don't talk for a while and become distant from each other. a really big mouth and no breasts and feet that look like skis." Mia's troubles are worsened: her mother has started dating her algebra teacher (Frank Gianini), the paparazzi are showing up at school, and she has a fight with her best friend Lilly. You never saw anyone who looked less like a princess than I do. She doesn't even know how to begin to cope: "I am so NOT a princess. And Mia, his only heir, is now considered the crown princess of Genovia. Mia's father comes to town and drops a major bomb: he's not just a European politician as he's always led her to believe, but actually the prince of a small country. She lives in Greenwich Village with her single, liberal mother, who is a semi-famous painter, but Mia puts on her Doc Martens one at a time, and the most exciting things she ever dreams about are kissing senior Josh Richter ("six feet of hotness") and passing Algebra.

Mia Thermopolis is an average urban ninth grader. It was released in 2000 by Harper Collins Publishers, and later became a film of the same name starring Anne Hathaway. The Princess Diaries is the first volume of the series of the same name by Meg Cabot. The Princess Diaries, Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight
