Fourteen-year-old Mia has a pretty normal life. She does wish, though, that she had a boyfriend and that her mom wasn't dating her algebra teacher! One day, out of the blue, her father comes to visit her and announces that she is the princess of Genovia, a small European principality. Mia is sooo embarrassed! She tries to hide the fact that she is a princess from all of her classmates but suddenly her face is all over magazines and the press starts swarming her school. Mia finds out that being a princess is very complicated. Lots of people now want to be her friend because of her new status. The most popular boy in school asks Mia to go to the cultural diversity dance with him-which she is so thrilled about! Is life going to suddenly become wonderful for Mia? Read this book and the rest in the Princess Diaries series to find out. A good audio book as well.

Reviewed by: jb

Date read: 3/22/2012

ISBN-10: 0380978482

ISBN-13: 9780380978489

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It is 1600. Elizabeth, the daughter of a duke, is in bed ill with a fever when suddenly she finds herself surrounded by pigs on a farm in Iowa in 1988. The family on whose farm she lands does not believe she is who she claims to be, and Elizabeth is shocked at their casual mannerisms and strange technologies. When she is given a seemingly magical drug that cures her illness, she becomes determined to return to her time to heal her mother, who is near death. How will she find her way home when no one believes her?

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 2/11/2010

ISBN-10: 0395515874

ISBN-13: 9780395515877

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Logan Quester is caught running in the reference section of the library by a strange old librarian. The elderly man punishes Logan by casting a spell that forces him to speak in puns. The only way to save him from this nightmare is to find seven examples of each of these vocabulary words: oxymorons, anagrams, and palindromes. What are they? Where can he find them?

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 5/18/2009

ISBN-10: 1581960425

ISBN-13: 9781581960426

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A young orphan named Mouse lives and works at Dunston Manor, in England, during the Middle Ages. She escapes the manor, and becomes the apprentice of a puppeteer. Mouse soon finds that the puppeteer holds secrets that may complicate her dreams of a better life.

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 4/13/2009

ISBN-10: 0689844247

ISBN-13: 9780689844249

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Gen is finally caught by the Queen of Attolia, and she exacts her revenge by taking something he cannot live without. When war looms between the two kingdoms Gen must steal a man, and then a queen. Can the Queen's Thief overcome his loss and save his kingdom? What will the Queen of Attolia do to save her throne? This thrilling sequal to The Thief is followed by The King of Attolia.

Similar books: Percy Jackson and the Olympians seris by Rick Riordan; Bloody Jack series by L. A. Meyer

Reviewed by: djd

Date read: 8/10/2009

ISBN-10: 068817423X

ISBN-13: 9780688174231

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