This is a great book! I just started reading because I saw the movie, but this book is fantastic! It is a diary of a 14-year-old girl named Mia in New York City who thinks she is complete freak and invisible. She is given a hard time at school and even from her closest friend. But one day her dad takes her out to eat and tells her she is heir to the royal throne of a made-up, tiny European country called Genovia. Her life then takes off when everyone starts treating her different even though she is just the same Mia. The book is filled with her top tens of just about anything including her many problems (she is a princess, she has no breasts, her hair is ridiculous, her mom is dating her algebra teacher, she is getting a D in algebra, she doesn't have a boyfriend, she has to take princess lessons after school from her grandmother, etc.). Even though it may seem as if all this girl does is complain it is far from that! Mia is a very relatable character compared to the girl in All-American Girl (another of Meg Cabots's books). This book is astonoshing and really shows how to stay true to yourself and your friends and family, even if your world is turned upside down. I would greatly recommend this book, however the movie, I feel does not even BEGIN to descirbe the emotions and how Mia feels during this strange time (I think the movie would have been better if Mia narrated it). So please, READ THIS BOOK (don't see the movie)!