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Princess in Pink (The Princess Diaries #5)
by
Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
bThe Barnes Noble Review/bbrPrincess Mia is dreaming about the prom -- and contending with a hotel workers' strike -- in the fifth, supremely hilarious episode of Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries. This time, Mia's in the pink about the upcoming Albert Einstein H.S. prom, and she's crossing her fingers that Michael will ask her to go. (They're in love, so why wouldn't he ask he...more
Mass Market Paperback, 275 pages
Published
April 1st 2005
by HarperTrophy
(first published September 5th 2003)
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Princess In Pink
By: Meg Cabot
Realistic Fiction
272 Pages
Mia is just like any other teenager in high school. Shes wishes she could lead a normal life, but being a princess pretty much wipes out all her chances of being treated normally. She wants her boyfriend, Michael, to ask her to prom, but he thinks that prom is one of the dumbest things in all of your high school years. She has come to the point of not caring about anything else other than figuring out a way to make her boyfriend to ask her t...more
By: Meg Cabot
Realistic Fiction
272 Pages
Mia is just like any other teenager in high school. Shes wishes she could lead a normal life, but being a princess pretty much wipes out all her chances of being treated normally. She wants her boyfriend, Michael, to ask her to prom, but he thinks that prom is one of the dumbest things in all of your high school years. She has come to the point of not caring about anything else other than figuring out a way to make her boyfriend to ask her t...more
Realistic Fiction fans are not to be messed with. We know what we want, a realistic story, everyday events and stories we can relate with using details, vivid enough we can see it.
Meg Cabot, Princess in Pink is a boring story that talks about a princess. It's easy to relate even though you may or maynot be a princess. Mia is a princess teenager with the same stresses as any other teenage girl. She has a boyfriend and good friends. She's currently in School. She writes down her life on a journal...more
Meg Cabot, Princess in Pink is a boring story that talks about a princess. It's easy to relate even though you may or maynot be a princess. Mia is a princess teenager with the same stresses as any other teenage girl. She has a boyfriend and good friends. She's currently in School. She writes down her life on a journal...more
Princess in Pink By Meg Cabot
Young Adult Literature
275 pages
Mia is a princess. She writes in her journal (that is what is being read by reader) about all her life experiences. Her boyfriend is a senior and the prom is coming up. He has not asked her yet, so she is flipping out and that is all she can think about. On her birthday, (may 1st, the same as mine) her grandmother (queen) decides to bring her dog and gets a busboy fired. The news has heard and all is crazy. Mia finds out Michael, her bo...more
Young Adult Literature
275 pages
Mia is a princess. She writes in her journal (that is what is being read by reader) about all her life experiences. Her boyfriend is a senior and the prom is coming up. He has not asked her yet, so she is flipping out and that is all she can think about. On her birthday, (may 1st, the same as mine) her grandmother (queen) decides to bring her dog and gets a busboy fired. The news has heard and all is crazy. Mia finds out Michael, her bo...more
The main issue in this book is that Mia's boyfriend doesn't want to go to the prom because he considers it to be "lame". It takes place in NYC. Mia is the protagonist, she is kind and dramatic. Grand'Mere is the antagonist, even though she saves the day in the end, she still is the antagonist because she really bugs Mia.
Summary: As people buy their prom tickets and dresses, poor Mia wonders if/when her boyfriend will ask her to prom. after having asked him, Mia discovers that Michael actually...more
Summary: As people buy their prom tickets and dresses, poor Mia wonders if/when her boyfriend will ask her to prom. after having asked him, Mia discovers that Michael actually...more
I think this book is one of the more hilarious ones in the series so far! The main problem Mia has is that her recently become boyfriend, Michael hasn't asked her to prom yet. For majority of the book that's basically all she ever thinks of. Of course who wouldn't be worried about that, right? Only to discover that Michael thinks that prom is LAME. Through the course of the story, she tries to find ways to convince him to attend the prom and some relationships break apart and some unite.
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In desperate need of escapism I turned to rereading this book today and I must say it delivered marvelously. It has everything you could ever hope for in a book of its genre and MORE: family drama, pregnancy, betrayal, lots of humor, and even a proletariat uprising. It is like a chaste telenovela (the pregnancy is Mia's mother's). The central question of this book is: Will Mia go to the prom with her boyfriend or NOT?! You would think that this would be a fairly easy question to resolve but as i...more
After a disastrous fifteenth birthday Mia finds herself torn between her Grandmere and her best friend as they fall on opposites sides of a workers strike that could threaten to ruin everything, including PROM! But does it really matter if Prom is canceled? After all, Michael doesn't seem the slightest bit motivated in going. Can Mia change all that and still endure Princess Lessons?
After reading the first book in this series I went to the library and just happened to see the rest of the books (...more
After reading the first book in this series I went to the library and just happened to see the rest of the books (...more
I've read the other reviews about the authors "liberal" agenda. And finding some of these people that use the words "liberal" or "agenda" are the same people that get their news from Fox twitter feeds. There is no agenda here that I could see and I am liberal with an agenda (I have a date-book where I keep all my appt.) Lilly is written as the typical rebellious teenager looking for a way to make things better in a world where she is told she has no control, but to deal with the horrors of High...more
I listened to most of this on audio and I have to admit I couldn't believe I was listening to a whole book on wanting to go to the prom, and it seemed so ridiculously stupid. But I do remember reading this series and enjoying it, so I switched to the book and it's much better if you read it. It just doesn't sound quite so despearate and it's funnier somehow. Still, it's a book about a girl wanting to go to the prom...but as usual, Cabot works in serious themes and tries to balance a teen's desir...more
Mia is almost fifteen and is looking forward to attending Michael's prom. But first she has to get him to invite her, get through the rest of teh school year, deal with a birthday party, deal with some controversial politics and keep her grandma at bay, oh yeah and deal with her VERY pregnant mother who looks like she will drop anyday.
I enjoyed this one more than book 4, Mia has gotten less whiny and knows what she wants, she's just not sure how to get it. I loved Lilly again, she is causing tro...more
I enjoyed this one more than book 4, Mia has gotten less whiny and knows what she wants, she's just not sure how to get it. I loved Lilly again, she is causing tro...more
Its 14 year old Mia's 15th birthday and so far her grandmother has gotten a busboy fired for something that wasn't his fault causing one of the largest protests in New York history, her boyfriend Michael doesn't want to go to the prom, her mom is on her last months of pregnancy so she is being very moody' and her father wants her to spend the whole summer in Genovia.
Fast pace, this tale will have everyone laughing and really getting into Mia's thoughts. I rated it 5 stars because it had me flip...more
Fast pace, this tale will have everyone laughing and really getting into Mia's thoughts. I rated it 5 stars because it had me flip...more
Mia is nearing her final days at AEHS as a freshman. She's sad that she will be in Genovia during the summer, spent away from her boyfriend. Her best friend Lilly, has turned out to be someone she doesn't really know -- and she has waged a war against Mia's grandmother. Mia's mother is nearing her due-date, and her step-father/Algebra teacher is on the brink of failing her once again. With all this, there's only one thing that's plaguing her mind -- that her senior boyfriend, Michael, doesn't wa...more
This 5th installment of the PD is very entertaining. Mia starts to realize what she is good at and nurtures it by writing for the school newspaper. While once again her friend Lilly is no friend at all, her mother is self absorbed with her own problems and her boyfriend doesn't understand how much the prom means to her. I am so hooked on this series.
It seems to me that Grandmere is the only person who understands Mia. Whenever there is something wrong or is bothering her, Grandmere is the only...more
It seems to me that Grandmere is the only person who understands Mia. Whenever there is something wrong or is bothering her, Grandmere is the only...more
Like why is Princess Mia so whiny all the time?
This book, and the voice of Mia grated on my nerves. She no longer comes across as the clever, introvert, indie Cinderella who can dance from the Princess Diaries, but a selfish, entitled royal.
I did love all references to the movie Pretty in Pink, including how bad Molly's dream dress at the end truly was, and the fact that Mia's boyfriend, Michael, is in a band, because who doesn't crush on musicians?
I believe the author, Meg Cabot, has a good sen...more
This book, and the voice of Mia grated on my nerves. She no longer comes across as the clever, introvert, indie Cinderella who can dance from the Princess Diaries, but a selfish, entitled royal.
I did love all references to the movie Pretty in Pink, including how bad Molly's dream dress at the end truly was, and the fact that Mia's boyfriend, Michael, is in a band, because who doesn't crush on musicians?
I believe the author, Meg Cabot, has a good sen...more
Everyone's favorite Princess, Mia Thermopolis, is back, and better than ever. After waiting five long years to see Mia finally hit 15-years-old, the time has come. In Princess in Pink, Mia is celebrating a long-awaited birthday, where she is hoping for many fantastic gifts; she is the newest staffer on the school newspaper, which is extremely exciting, even if she's got a boring topic to cover; she's reaching the end of Freshman Algebra, which she just knows she's going to pass; she's got a fant...more
This is the fifth book in the series, The Princess Diaries. Mia is finishing up her freshmen year in high school, turning fifteen,helping her mother and step-father prepare for the new baby, having princess lessons, and of course spending time with the love of her life, Michael. With the end of the year, of course comes prom. Mia spends most of the book wondering why Michael has not asked yet. She finds out that Michael thinks the prom is lame. She works on changing his mind with the help of Gra...more
Mia was obnoxious as fuck in this one. There's just not a nicer way to put it. For better or worse, she is the princess of Genovia. That means she has responsibilities, and a really good way to deal with that would be to honor the commitments that she made, legally binding contract or not. Her weaseling to get out of spending the summer there really irked me as did the pushing Michael into going to prom thing. Yes, being in a relationship means doing things that your partner doesn't want to do s...more
I love these books & am reading them all from the library. Will Mia go to the prom with Michael & will her heavily pregnant mother embaress her by telling everyone about how often she has to pee?
Jan 25, 2009
Wagabagee
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
evry1
Recommended to Wagabagee by:
miley cyrus
this book is awesome i wrote a song about it actually. well, not about, but it gave me an idea so think princess in pink ur so pinkilious! ooooooooooooh ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ack, this was dreadful. I don't suppose it helps that I read it right after Pride and Prejudice, but even so. I know it's meant for children, but the previous four weren't this bad.
Whine whine whine whine whine. Bella out of Twilight is a better narrator than Mia. Still, we can draw some similarities, can't we? Both stories start out with precarious yet vaguely original ideas (high school princess/vampire boyfriend) and both get sidetracked with unrelated, self-absorbed rants that completely murder any potential plot or action (why won't he take me to prom/why won't he make me a vampire). You get the gist of it. I didn't have much of a problem with either series until they...more
This book plot was Mia trying to get Michael to go to prom with her. It was kind of like her ranting throughout the book by page 200 it was getting old. Still somewhat funny
I said it in my review of #4, but each book in this series gets better than the previous. I thought Mia’s obsession with Senior Prom was a little over the top, but I remember how excited I was when I got asked to go to the Prom when I was a sophomore. I hated how she didn’t take the initiative with Michael regarding the Prom situation, but she is a freshman in high school, and finds herself wildly inadequate for Michael. The major event that happens between Lilly and Mia was long overdue, in my...more
Feb 23, 2008
Megan
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone mostly girls with stuborn boyfriends but anyone
Recommended to Megan by:
no one recomended it
PROM! love it ROMANCE! loved it A STUBORN BOYFRIEND! ha ha i would love one! this book is a great book u just cant put it down at all! was up all night reading it!
My first Princess Diaries book. Overall, it was quite okay, with some entertaining and funny parts here and there. But not substantial enough for me to feel compelled to read the whole series.
Probably because I'm not American. There are many cultural references inside that I don't get, and themes that American girls would appreciate and relate to a lot better than I did. I mean. I haven't heard of a single of the movies Mia watched and all...and I didn't really understand the thought processes...more
Probably because I'm not American. There are many cultural references inside that I don't get, and themes that American girls would appreciate and relate to a lot better than I did. I mean. I haven't heard of a single of the movies Mia watched and all...and I didn't really understand the thought processes...more
While this book seemed a little bit rushed, i of course, love Mia.
And I finally realized that Mia is SO self-absorbed, which made me love her more, lol!
You get to see some really interesting things about each character in this book - things that make me want to laugh, cry, and scream. It's a great book, it brought out so much emotion:)
:P Plus I read it in less than three hours, along with reading the 4.5 Princess Diary Book, Project Princess, in less than an hour! It was basically an afternoon...more
And I finally realized that Mia is SO self-absorbed, which made me love her more, lol!
You get to see some really interesting things about each character in this book - things that make me want to laugh, cry, and scream. It's a great book, it brought out so much emotion:)
:P Plus I read it in less than three hours, along with reading the 4.5 Princess Diary Book, Project Princess, in less than an hour! It was basically an afternoon...more
Attention span on this series starting to wane, yet I feel compelled to finish the series....
Mia wie sie leibt und lebt! Sie macht es sich wie immer viel schwerer als nötig! Anstatt ihren über alles geliebten Michael zu fragen, ob sie nicht doch zusammen auf den Abschlussball gehen können, weil es ihr Herzenswunsch ist, macht sie natürlich wieder alles komplizierter als es sein muss!
Dennoch war die Geschichte mal wieder total witzig und ich lach mich immer wieder darüber kaputt, dass Mia ihrer Grandmère glauben schenkt, nachdem sie doch schon so oft daneben gelegen hat!
Mir als Lilly-Has...more
Dennoch war die Geschichte mal wieder total witzig und ich lach mich immer wieder darüber kaputt, dass Mia ihrer Grandmère glauben schenkt, nachdem sie doch schon so oft daneben gelegen hat!
Mir als Lilly-Has...more
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Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels).
Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse -- at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flun...more
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Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse -- at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flun...more
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