The Princess Diaries
讀書樂編號：5160
推介人： 嚴家恩校友
The Princess Diaries is the diary of Mia Thermopolis, a fourteen-year-old freshman at the fictional Albert Einstein High School, a private school in New York City. Mia is a tall, socially awkward teenager who was raised by her liberal artist mother Helen in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Her parents had a brief fling and separated before she was born; she sees her father Phillipe Renaldo, whom she is told is a Genovian politician, mostly when she spends every summer at her grandmère (grandmother) Clarisse's French chateau, Miragnac. Mia's world is thrown upside down when her father, who recently underwent treatment for testicular cancer, finds out he cannot have any more children. This fact forces him to tell Mia that he is not just some Genovian politician, but indeed, none other than the Prince of Genovia. Because Mia is his only child, and his cancer has prohibited him from having any more children, he informs her that she is now Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, Her Royal Highness, the princess, and soon to be queen, of Genovia. Mia does not adjust to this news easily; but she certainly objects when her father informs her she must now move to Genovia to learn to be a princess. Eventually, Grandmère decides to come to America to provide "princess lessons," which her father offers to pay her for. Mia declines, but asks instead that her father donate a hundred dollars a day to Greenpeace. Also, all the while Mia is secretly in love with her best friend, Lily's brother, Michael who is a senior [in the first book] and doesn't really think much of Mia except that she is his little sister's best friend.
