书名：Princess in Love  公主日记3：恋爱中的公主
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数880L
作者：Meg Cabot
出版社名称：HarperTeen
出版时间：2008
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780061479953
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。
这本英文版The Princess Diaries, Volume III: Princess in Love《公主日记3：恋爱中的公主》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, Volume III: Princess in Love《公主日记3：恋爱中的公主》
本书的情节曲折多变：米娅终于有了一个男朋友，但他却不是米娅的意中人……折磨人的“公主课”还在继续；代数老师一夜之间变成了米娅的继父；妈妈怀孕了，每天吐个不停……面对这令人啼笑皆非的一切，米娅该如何处置？
But the truth is, Mia spends all her time doing one of three things: preparing for her nerve-racking entrée into Genovian society, slogging through the congestion unique to Manhattan in December, and avoiding further smooches from her hapless boyfriend, Kenny.
For Mia, being a princess in love is not the fairy tale it’s supposed to be . . . or is it?

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.

English Class
Assignment (Due December 8)
Here at Albert Einstein High School we have a very diverse student population. Over one hundred
and seventy different nations, religions and ethnic groups are represented by our student body. In
the space below, describe the manner in which your family celebrates the uniquely American
holiday, Thanksgiving. Please utilize appropriate margins.
My Thanksgiving
by Mia Thermopolis
6:45 a.m.
Roused by the sound of my mother vomiting. She is well into her third month of pregnancy now.
According to her obstetrician, all the throwing up should stop in the next trimester. I can’t wait. I
have been marking the days off on
my ‘NSync calendar. (I don’t really like ‘NSync. At host, not that much. My best friend Lilly bought
me the calendar
as a joke. Except that one guy really is pretty cute.)
7:45 a.m.
Mr. Gianini, my new stepfather, knocks on my door. Only now I am supposed to call him Frank.
This is very difficult
to remember due to the fact that at school, where he is my second period Algebra teacher, I am
supposed to call him Mr. Gianini. So I just don’t call him anything (to his face).
It’s time to get up, Mr. Gianini says. We are having Thanksgiving at his parents’ house on Long
Island. We have to leave now if we are going to beat the traffic.
8:45 a.m.
There is no traffic this early on Thanksgiving Day. We arrive at Mr. G’s parents’ house in
Sagaponack three hours early.
Mrs. Gianini (Mr. Gianini’s mother, not my mother. My mother is still Helen Thermopolis because
she is fairly well-known as a painter under that name, and also because she does not believe in the
cult of the patriarchy) is still
in curlers. She looks very surprised. This might not only be because we arrived so early, but also
because no sooner had my mother entered the house than she was forced to run for the bathroom
with her hand pressed over her mouth, on account of the smell of the roasting turkey. I am hoping
this means that my future half-brother or sister is a vegetarian, since the smell of meat cooking
used to make my mother hungry, not nauseated.
My mother already informed me in the car on the way over from Manhattan that Mr. Gianini’s
parents are very old-fashioned and are used to enjoying a conventional Thanksgiving meal. She
does not think that they will appreciate hearing my traditional Thanksgiving speech about how
the Pilgrims were guilty of committing mass genocide by giving their new Native American
friends blankets filled with the smallpox virus, and that it is reprehensible that we, as a country,
annually celebrate this rape and destruction of an entire culture.
Instead, my mother said, I should discuss more neutral topics, such as the weather.
I asked if it was all right if I discussed the astonishingly high rate of attendance at the Reykjavik
opera house in Iceland (over ninety-eight per cent of the country’s population has seenToscaat
least once).
My mother sighed and said, ‘If you must,’ which I take to be a sign that she is beginning to tire of
hearing about Iceland.
Well, I am sorry, but I find Iceland extremely fascinating and I will not rest until I have visited the
ice hotel.