书名：The Princess Diaries 公主日记
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数920L
作者：Meg Cabot
出版社名称：HarperTeen
出版时间：2008
语种： 英文
ISBN：9780061479939
商品尺寸：13.5 x 1.5 x 20.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：256

The Princess Diaries《公主日记》是安妮·海瑟薇主演电影《公主日记》的英文原著小说系列，获得美国图书馆协会年轻人读物奖、青少年必读书目选书奖以及纽约公立图书馆青少年读物奖。
米娅是一个普普通通的纽约中学生，她有许多烦恼，比如个子太高，头发太糟，嘴巴太大，胸脯太平，代数考试常常不及格……突然有一天她被告知，她是王位继承人，是公主。一系列诙谐幽默、发人深省的故事由此展开……小说所蕴涵的激扬的青春、神奇的幻想、奔放的热情，以及俏皮的语言、开阔的视野、前卫的感受……令无数青少年读者震撼、着迷。根据小说改编的电影《公主日记》票房收入仅在美国就超过1亿美元。
这本The Princess Diaries《公主日记》为英文版，推荐给10岁及以上的儿童或青少年阅读。
推荐理由：
1.《公主日记》电影原著，美国图书馆协会推荐书目；
2. 用词简单，语言很俏皮、口语化，生词少，比较容易读懂；
3. 英文原版，内容无删减，排版合适，字体较大；
Mia Thermopolis is your average urban ninth grader. Even though she lives in Greenwich Village with a single mom who is a semifamous painter, Mia still puts on her Doc Martens one at a time, and the most exciting things she ever dreams about are smacking lips with sexy senior Josh Richter, “six feet of unadulterated hotness,” and passing Algebra I. Then Mia’s dad comes to town, and drops a major bomb. Turns out he’s not just a European politician as he’s always lead her to believe, but actually the prince of a small country! And Mia, his only heir, is now considered the crown princess of Genovia! She doesn’t even know how to begin to cope: “I am so NOT a princess.... You never saw anyone who looked less like a princess than I do. I mean, I have really bad hair... and... a really big mouth and no breasts and feet that look like skis.” And if this news wasn’t bad enough, Mia’s mom has started dating her algebra teacher, the paparazzi is showing up at school, and she’s in a huge fight with her best friend, Lilly. How much more can this reluctant Cinderella handle?
Offbeat Mia will automatically win the heart of every teenage girl who’s ever just wanted to fit in with as little fuss as possible. Debut author Meg Cabot’s writing is silly and entertaining, with tons of pop culture references that will make teens feel right at home within her pages. This is a wonderfully wacky read.

The Princess Diaries《公主日记》
米娅的公主身份公开后，生活一下子全乱套了，她每天上学有保镖跟着，放学后要去刁钻古怪的奶奶大人那里去上“公主课”。仿佛这些还不够糟，坏事接踵而来，面对一连串的烦心事，米娅该怎么办？
What? A princess??
Me??? Yeah, right.
Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there’s nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra.
Is she ever in for a surprise.
First Mom announces that she’s dating Mia’s Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn’t have a date for the Cultural Diversity Dance?

梅格·凯博特（Meg Cabot）于1967年出生于美国中部的印第安纳州的布卢明顿，是一位浪漫小说和奇幻小说的青少年作家。曾用Meggin Cabot、Patricia Cabot、Jenny Carroll等笔名著作，但现在只用Meg Cabot。她至今写作并出版了超过50本书，著有公主日记系列、中间者系列、1-800你在哪儿系列、全美国女孩系列等图书，有名的公主日记，曾被迪士尼公司拍成两部同名电影。梅格的书得过许多的知名的奖项，如纽约青少年公共图书奖、青少年常绿树等，她还多次获得纽约时报畅销书（New York Times bestsellers）的第1名。
Meg Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana. In addition to her adult contemporary fiction, she is the author of the bestselling young adult fictionThe Princess Diaries andThe Mediator series. Over 25 million copies of her novels for children and adults have sold worldwide. Meg lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband.

Tuesday, September 23
Sometimes it seems like all I ever do is lie.
My mom thinks I’m repressing my feelings about this. I say to her, “No, Mom, I’m not. I think it’s really neat. As long as you’re happy, I’m happy.”
Mom says, “I don’t think you’re being honest with me.”
Then she hands me this book. She tells me she wants me to write down my feelings in this book, since, she says, I obviously don’t feel I can talk about them with her.
She wants me to write down my feelings? Okay, I’ll write down my feelings:
I CAN’T BELIEVE SHE’S DOING THIS TO ME!
Like everybody doesn’t already think I’m a freak. I’m practically the biggest freak in the entire school. I mean, let’s face it: I’m five foot nine, flat-chested, and a freshman.
How much more of a freak could I be?
If people at school find out about this, I’m dead. That’s it. Dead.
Oh, God, if you really do exist, please don’t let them find out about this.
There are four million people in Manhattan, right? That makes about two million of them guys. So out of TWO MILLION guys, she has to go out with Mr. Gianini. She can’t go out with some guy I don’t know. She can’t go out with some guy she met at D’Agostinos or wherever. Oh, no.
She has to go out with my Algebra teacher.
Thanks, Mom. Thanks a whole lot.
Wednesday, September 24, Fifth Period
Lilly’s like, “Mr. Gianini’s cool.”
Yeah, right. He’s cool if you’re Lilly Moscovitz. He’s cool if you’re good at Algebra, like Lilly Moscovitz. He’s not so cool if you’re flunking Algebra, like me.
He’s not so cool if he makes you stay after school EVERY SINGLE SOLITARY DAY from 2:30 to 3:30 to practice the FOIL method when you could be hanging out with all your friends. He’s not so cool if he calls your mother in for a parent/teacher conference to talk about how you’re flunking Algebra, then ASKS HER OUT.
And he’s not so cool if he’s sticking his tongue in your mom’s mouth.
Not that I’ve actually seen them do this. They haven’t even been on their first date yet. And I don’t think my mom would let a guy put his tongue in her mouth on the first date.
At least, I hope not.
I saw Josh Richter stick his tongue in Lana Weinberger’s mouth last week. I had this totally close-up view of it, since they were leaning up against Josh’s locker, which is right next to mine. It kind of grossed me out.
Though I can’t say I’d mind if Josh Richter kissed me like that. The other day Lilly and I were at Bigelows picking up some alpha hydroxy for Lilly’s mom, and I noticed Josh waiting at the checkout counter. He saw me and he actually sort of smiled and said, “Hey.”