No one ever said being a princess was easy.
Just when Mia thought she had the whole princess thing under control, things get out of hand, fast. ...
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May 31, 2011
Susanna
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I've never liked the movies, but at least they cut out most of the unnecessary junk that fills these books. Are boyfriends and kissing really the most important things on the mind of the average 15-year-old girl?
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Apr 01, 2008
Skinnerbox
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This i very interesting book. I realy love M.C. books. I think she's very, very clever and modern. I realy like that Mia is a feminist;)
I luve Princess Diaries;)
I luve Princess Diaries;)
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Aug 18, 2008
Shannon
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While the storyline in this one isn't as fresh and exciting as the first one, it still holds solid and Mae hasn't yet changed much.
It takes place only days after the end of the previous book - I have a quibble with how fast everything moves, and how soon this could have happened - when Mia learns that her mum is pregnant with her algebra teacher's baby. They decide to get married on Halloween at City Hall and keep it quiet.
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It takes place only days after the end of the previous book - I have a quibble with how fast everything moves, and how soon this could have happened - when Mia learns that her mum is pregnant with her algebra teacher's baby. They decide to get married on Halloween at City Hall and keep it quiet.
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May 02, 2008
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Just when Mia thought she had the whole Princess thing under control...
Things get out of hand fast:
Since Mia's the brand-new crown princess of Genovia, indomitable dowager princess Grandmere arranges a national primetime interview for her. With just a few innocent remarks, Mia manages to enrage her best friend Lilly, practically get one of her teachers fired, and alienate the entire country of Genovia. (Population 50,000, but still!)
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Just when Mia thought she had the whole Princess thing under control...
Things get out of hand fast:
Since Mia's the brand-new crown princess of Genovia, indomitable dowager princess Grandmere arranges a national primetime interview for her. With just a few innocent remarks, Mia manages to enrage her best friend Lilly, practically get one of her teachers fired, and alienate the entire country of Genovia. (Population 50,000, but still!)
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Feb 15, 2009
Sabine
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The princess stuff isn't getting easier and to add to that, Mia is receiving letters from a secret admirer who may or may not be the boy she has had a crush on since she was six, her mom has just revealed she is pregnant with Mia's Algebra teacher, and her best friend has run off with her attractive, but small-town cousin who is visiting for her mom's wedding. What is a princess to do?
After reading the first book in this series I went to the library and just happened to see the rest More...
After reading the first book in this series I went to the library and just happened to see the rest More...
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Dec 21, 2007
Kelsey F
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Right now, Mia Thermopolis’s life is at an all time low. She just found out she is heir to the throne of the small European country Genovia, she is failing algebra, and her mom is pregnant with her algebra teacher’s baby. So what else can go wrong? Well believe me; tons. Because now she also has to deal with a secret admirer and an interview on her newly obtained throne which will air on national TV. The main question is will Mia be able to handle all this or will she crack under pressure?
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Aug 01, 2011
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Mia thinks that she finally has everything about being a princess down pat. But her life is about to get more complicated. Her mom is pregnant and going to marry Mia's Algebra teacher. Mia is madly in love with Michael Moscovitz, her best friend, Lilly's brother. And now her Grandmère wants her to have an interview with Beverly Bellerieve, the most-watched journalist-slash-interviewer in the country. And when MIa makes a few comments, she enrages almost all her friends.
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Jun 14, 2011
This review was originally posted on my blog, Creativity's Corner
I really didn't mean to read this one next. I'm borrowing it from a friend, and I need to finish all the library books first (I leave in a week! *gulp*). But once I get in the mood for fluff I just can't put it down. Unfortunately, I didn't find this one nearly as fun as I did the first one. I guess there just something much more interesting about the very first time you find out you're a princess and have to take princ More...
I really didn't mean to read this one next. I'm borrowing it from a friend, and I need to finish all the library books first (I leave in a week! *gulp*). But once I get in the mood for fluff I just can't put it down. Unfortunately, I didn't find this one nearly as fun as I did the first one. I guess there just something much more interesting about the very first time you find out you're a princess and have to take princ More...
May 30, 2011
Arielle
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Apr 09, 2011
Diana
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Princess in the Spotlight (The Princess Diaries #2)
By Meg Cabot
Harper Trophy
263 Pgs.
ISBN 0312383886
Mia Thermopolis Renaldo is not a typical, young, average teenager who has divorced parents, but she is also the heir apparent to a small European country. Unlike other high school teenage females, she has many extracurricular classes to attend in order to be the queen that can control her country. With that note, she has bodyguards following her around, and having her More...
By Meg Cabot
Harper Trophy
263 Pgs.
ISBN 0312383886
Mia Thermopolis Renaldo is not a typical, young, average teenager who has divorced parents, but she is also the heir apparent to a small European country. Unlike other high school teenage females, she has many extracurricular classes to attend in order to be the queen that can control her country. With that note, she has bodyguards following her around, and having her More...
Mar 25, 2011
Kristen
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The Princess Diaries 2 "Princess in the Spotlight" was the sequel to one of my all-time favorite books. In most cases, I find that sequels are never as good as the originals, but I actually enjoyed this one very much. It is not a serious book, definitely one that is read more for just pleasure. However, it is an excellent quick read, probably targeted more for teenage girls.
A few things I liked about not only this book, but the entire series in general, is the format. Usually re More...
A few things I liked about not only this book, but the entire series in general, is the format. Usually re More...
Feb 16, 2011
Leticia
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Jun 19, 2010
Jasmin
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I've found treasure in a form of a diary. It's shiny and has a very beautiful cover. I'm dazzled. I flip the cover. I read the pages. It's hard stopping. What I'm doing is bad, but, who could resist the temptation of gossip this diary brings?
That was what I felt when I read this book. I felt like I was invading in private property, lacking the skulls and the warning "you will drop dead if you read this". (Well, okay, it isn't exactly a diary, but still, I'm in the complete More...
That was what I felt when I read this book. I felt like I was invading in private property, lacking the skulls and the warning "you will drop dead if you read this". (Well, okay, it isn't exactly a diary, but still, I'm in the complete More...
Oct 16, 2009
Laureng
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Meg Cabot returns with another story about the struggles of Princess Mia and how she deals with them in Princess in the Spotlight. This book captured me by pulling me in with an unusual style and good characters.
Princess in the Spotlight tells the story of Princess Mia Thermopolis. She has begun to accept her new responsibilities of being a princess. Such responsibilities include a high-profile interview and continuing her princess lessons with her grandmother. Aside from her royal conce More...
Princess in the Spotlight tells the story of Princess Mia Thermopolis. She has begun to accept her new responsibilities of being a princess. Such responsibilities include a high-profile interview and continuing her princess lessons with her grandmother. Aside from her royal conce More...
Jul 07, 2009
April
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Jun 10, 2011
Melissa
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This second book in the Princess Diaries series was not quite as good as the first, but it still was a fun and very enjoyable read. I found myself chuckling several times throughout the book, even though some of the references to pop culture icons is a little dated. Mia's thoughts on the world around her are sometimes absolutely hilarious (Grandmere doing the tango with Gerald Ford, for example), and often they can be poignant. I think I like these books so much because they are able to humor
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Nov 19, 2009
Carmen
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I totally didn't mention it in my review for The Princess Diaries but at the beginning of the novel, there was a quote from A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I just have to add them because I loved the book and movie.
From volume one:
"Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of More...
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"Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of More...
Apr 08, 2011
Siti
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SITI HM KHAIRI
Princess in the Spotlight
by Meg Cabot
256 pages
HarperCollins $8.99
ISBN: 0061479942
Mia Thermopolis Renaldo is most definitely not your typical princess or teenager. And with that territory comes the weirdest situations from: dealing with a grandmother with shaved eyebrows, math teacher dating her mother, a father who can't have kids, a secret admirer, her sometimes-too-smart of a best friend Lily, her major crush oh her More...
SITI HM KHAIRI
Princess in the Spotlight
by Meg Cabot
256 pages
HarperCollins $8.99
ISBN: 0061479942
Mia Thermopolis Renaldo is most definitely not your typical princess or teenager. And with that territory comes the weirdest situations from: dealing with a grandmother with shaved eyebrows, math teacher dating her mother, a father who can't have kids, a secret admirer, her sometimes-too-smart of a best friend Lily, her major crush oh her More...
Jan 31, 2011
Jessica
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Grade: B+
Oh Meg Cabot, I love you, I really, really do. So charming, so funny, so witty, so ironic. If I had read this series when it was first published when I was ten years younger, it would definitely had been a different experience for me. This is a book for young girls, but Meg Cabot never fails to throw in things for us "adults" that we might have missed the first time around while reading as preteens/teenagers. And that is one of the many reasons I love her!
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Oh Meg Cabot, I love you, I really, really do. So charming, so funny, so witty, so ironic. If I had read this series when it was first published when I was ten years younger, it would definitely had been a different experience for me. This is a book for young girls, but Meg Cabot never fails to throw in things for us "adults" that we might have missed the first time around while reading as preteens/teenagers. And that is one of the many reasons I love her!
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Dec 04, 2011
Merna
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In the awesome book Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot.The princess of Genovia is facing some problems.Mia's mother is having a baby.Mia has a boy who finally likes her but doesn't know who.Her grandmother has to teach her how to be a perfect princess.Will Mia survive with all these problems?
I loved reading Princess in the Spotlight.The book has simple vocabulary which is great for me, because I have trouble dealing with hard words.The book was unique like no ot More...
I loved reading Princess in the Spotlight.The book has simple vocabulary which is great for me, because I have trouble dealing with hard words.The book was unique like no ot More...
Nov 15, 2011
Ada
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Princess Diary was about this princess from Genovia that is in America. She goes to school like any other children her age. This whole book is pretty much about her life. She writes about her life in form of a diary. This diary was a assignment given by her literature teacher. She wrote many personal things in this diary. Like for example she wrote about how her mother and her algebra teacher have a baby! Now that is personal! So her life is full of problems because she is a princess.
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Jul 04, 2011
Samantha
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Princess Mia is back in Princess in the Spotlight. The excitement hasn't calmed down since she found out she is the Princess of Genovia. First she has her first exclusive TV interview with Beverly Bellerieve which she is strongly protesting against. Then, a surprising announcement from her mother who is dating Mr. G, Mia's algebra teacher. And, Mia has a secret admirer. Could it be her crush, Michael?
Anne Hatheway does another spectacular job narrating Princess in the Spotlight. More...
Anne Hatheway does another spectacular job narrating Princess in the Spotlight. More...
Mar 20, 2011
Caroline
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I thought this book was interesting. While reading it, I noticed that even people you least expect have personal problems of their own. Mia is a princess, and on the outside her life looks like it is perfect. But since this book is from the perspective of her diary, you get to really see the problems in her life and how she is feeling.
With famous people you usually think that their life is all peachy and how wonderful it is because they're rich and happy etc, but Princess In The Spotlight More...
With famous people you usually think that their life is all peachy and how wonderful it is because they're rich and happy etc, but Princess In The Spotlight More...
Dec 05, 2010
Carol
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I liked the book in general, but the diary stuff just doesn't do it for me. Journals about peoples lives just don't make sense to me sometimes. How can you remember entire converstations unless you have a script or an unhuman memory? Or what? You wrote while the person was talking to you? It's kind of hard to believe. Mia is a very likable character, but is Michael M. all that goes through her mind? It's weird, call me crazy, but it's true. How can Mia be so sure that she's absolutely in love wi
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Nov 11, 2011
I love this book.So far it is about a teenage girl who is a princess and just wants to be a normal girl and she is so stressed because she just found out her mom is having another baby with this girls Algebra teacher and she thinks that now her whole schoolyear is goona change.I would recommened to most of my friend
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Aug 19, 2011
Becky
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This is going to be a sort of mini review as there are so many in the series.
In this book Mia is still having to attend Princess Lessons, she's still failing Algebra and she hasn't got a boyfriend. Her mum is now engaged to her Algebra teacher and pregnant with his child. It feels like life is falling apart for Mia.
She then gets ill just before a big TV interview, she finds out she has a secret admirer and things at school get a bit shaken up. Maybe life can be changed, but is it nec More...
In this book Mia is still having to attend Princess Lessons, she's still failing Algebra and she hasn't got a boyfriend. Her mum is now engaged to her Algebra teacher and pregnant with his child. It feels like life is falling apart for Mia.
She then gets ill just before a big TV interview, she finds out she has a secret admirer and things at school get a bit shaken up. Maybe life can be changed, but is it nec More...
May 27, 2010
Jennie
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My review: Since the entire series is in my library's ebook selection, I had downloaded the first two. After the first one, I probably wouldn't have gone on to the second book if I didn't already have it downloaded on my nook. Don't get me wrong, it is a cute series, but just not cute enough for me to keep reading at this time. I am sure I will finish it up since the books are free from the library. I really enjoyed the romantic twists in this book over the first book. This one had much more rea
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Sep 14, 2011
Mckayla
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Ode to M
Oh, M
why can't you see
that x = you
and y = me?
and that
you + me
= ecstasy,
and together we'd B
4ever happy?
One of the greatest poems that I think has ever been written. I mean what isn't to love when you are trying to profess your love to the one you want if it is only in a diary. Mia not only has to deal with her grandmere and her princess lessons but she also has to get prepared to go on n More...
Oh, M
why can't you see
that x = you
and y = me?
and that
you + me
= ecstasy,
and together we'd B
4ever happy?
One of the greatest poems that I think has ever been written. I mean what isn't to love when you are trying to profess your love to the one you want if it is only in a diary. Mia not only has to deal with her grandmere and her princess lessons but she also has to get prepared to go on n More...
Mar 28, 2009
Yasmina
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This second book in the Princess Diaries series deals further with Mia learning to be a princess and dealing with public revelation that comes from that role. This is directly dealt with starting with a primetime interview Mia is instructed to attend by her Grandmere, despite Mia's protests.During the interview itself, Mia accidentally says a number of embarrassing things, including that her mother is pregnant with her fiancé Mr. Gianini's baby. where she discovers that her secret admirer is her
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Oct 25, 2007
Tiny
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Further adventures of a shy high school freshman who discovers, to her great dismay, that she is the princess of a small European country. Really I think I just read this because I love the Moscovitzes, which are somewhat minor characters in this series.
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