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Meg cabot

The Princess Diaries 3

Retold by Anne Collins

Contents

A Note about the Author and This Story

  1. A Girl with Two Lives

  2. Michael and Judith

  3. Talking with Tina

  4. Grandmere's Advice

  5. My Plan

  6. The Walkout

  7. Another Crime

  8. Sebastiano in Trouble

  9. Yellow Roses

  10. A Big Shock

  11. After the Winter Carnival

A Note About the Author and This Story

Meg Cabot (Meggin Patricia Cabot) was born in Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. She lives in New York City with her husband, Benjamin, and her cat, Henrietta. Meg Cabot studied Art at Indiana University. Then she became an illustrator of books and magazines.

Meg's first novel, Where Roses Grow Wild, was published in 1988. She wrote this book using the name Patricia Cabot. Her favorite authors are Jane Austen, Judy Blume, and Barbara Cartland. Her favorite food is pizza.

Some of Meg Cabot's stories are: The Princess Diaries (2000), The Princess Diaries: Take Two (2000), The Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky (2001), The Princess Diaires: Mia Goes Forth (2002), The Princess Diaries: Give Me Five (2003). The Princess Diaries series has been made into two movies - The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Buena Vista/Walt Disney Pictures, 2001/ 2004). email a way of sending messages from one computer to another.

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A Girl with Two Lives

My name is Mia Thermopolis. A few months ago, my mom gave me this diary because she wanted me to write down my feelings. Now I write about everything that happens to me.

I go to the Albert Einstein High School in New York City. I'm fourteen years old and I used to be an Ordinary schoolgirl. But now my life isn't ordinary at all.

I live in an apartment in Greenwich Village, on the west side of the city. I live with my mom, Helen, and my cat, Fat Louie. My mom is an artist and she's beautiful. Last month she got married to Mr Gianini, my Algebra teacher at school. So now Mr Gianini is my new stepfather and he lives with us too.

My mom is three months pregnant. So I'm going to have a new baby half-brother or half-sister. I'm very happy about this.

I'm a freshman—a ninth grade student—at Albert Einstein High School. My best friend is Lilly Moscovitz. I have other school friends too, like Tina Hakim Baba and Shameeka Taylor. My worst subject at school is Algebra. I keep flunking Algebra—I fail every test—so I have to go to Mr Gianini's extra Algebra classes.

Two months ago, I had a big shock. My dad, Philippe Renaldo, came to New York and told me that I'm the Princess of Genovia. Genovia is a small country in Europe, near the border of France and Italy. My full name is Her Royal Highness Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo. My dad is the Prince of Genovia.

My mom and dad weren't married when I was born. My mom didn't want to marry my dad so she became a single parent. But although my mom and dad weren't in love with each other, they stayed friends. When I was growing up, my dad sent us money. And every summer I visited him in Genovia.

But then everything changed. My dad got cancer. He had an operation and the doctors cut the cancer out of his body. Then he had chemotherapy. The chemotherapy worked well but now my dad is sterile—he can't have any more children. So I'm my dad's heir. When he dies, I'll become the ruler of Genovia.

My dad's mother—Grandmere—is the Dowager Princess of Genovia. Grandmere speaks French, drinks cocktails and smokes a lot of cigarettes. Many people are frightened of her. She's staying in a suite of rooms at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Every day after school, Grandmere gives me princess lessons.

So I have two lives—a life as an ordinary schoolgirl, and a life as a princess.

My English teacher told our class to write about what our family did on Thanksgiving Day. I had two different kinds of Thanksgiving Day dinners, so I wrote about both of them.

Saturday, December 5 th

My life is over. O-V-E-R.

I know I have said this before, but this time I really mean it.

And why is my life over? Because I have a boyfriend.

All my friends have boyfriends. Even my friend Lilly has one. Lilly's boyfriend is Boris Pelkowski. He's fifteen years old and he's a very good musician. He also wears weird clothes.

When Lilly got a boyfriend, I got worried because I didn't have one. I thought there must be something wrong with me.

And then one day, I got a boyfriend too. A boy named Kenny from my Biology class started sending me anonymous love letters. Kenny didn't sign his name so I didn't know they were from him. I was hoping they were from Lilly's older brother Michael. I've been in love with Michael for a long time, but he doesn't know how I feel. He just sees me as his kid sister's friend.

So when Kenny said that he had sent me the love letters, I didn't know what to do. I like Kenny, but only as a friend. There's a big dance at school at the end of this semester— the Albert Einstein Winter Dance. I'm going to the dance with Kenny. Well, he hasn't asked me yet, but he will. He has to ask me because he's my boyfriend.

I must be the luckiest girl in the world. I'm not pretty, but I'm not ugly, I live in New York and I'm a princess. I have a boyfriend. What more could a girl ask for?

It's no good. The truth is: I DON'T EVEN LIKE KENNY. Kenny is a nice guy. But when I see him, my heart doesn't start beating faster. And when Kenny holds my hand or kisses me, it's not exciting at all.

Sometimes, when Kenny tries to kiss me, I turn my head away.

I know I have to break up with Kenny. I must tell him that I only like him as a friend. But I don't want to upset him. And there's another problem. On Saturday nights, Kenny and I go out with Lilly and her boyfriend, Boris. Sometimes we are joined by my friends, Tina Hakim Baba and her boyfriend, Dave Farouq El-Abar, and my other friend Shameeka Taylor, and her boyfriend, Daryl Gardner. So we are four couples—Lilly-and-Boris, Kenny-and-Mia, Tina-and-Dave and Shameeka-and-Daryl.

So if Kenny and I break up, who will I go out with on Saturday evenings? And who will take me to the Winter Dance?

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