The Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess
Encyclopedia
The Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess is a young adult
book in the Princess Diaries
series. Written by Meg Cabot
, it was released on January 6, 2009 by Harper Collins Publishers and is the final novel in the series.
The book was released in the UK on the 2nd of January 2009, and called The Princess Diaries: Ten out of Ten.
, under an alias, and told everyone it was a paper on Genovian olive oil, and is trying to get it published, with no success. She doesn't feel like going to her prom at all, and Michael is back in town after his CardioArm became a huge success and he has become a rich young man. All of a sudden, everything she was (sort of) sure of goes down the drain. She isn't so sure about her relationship with J.P, whose motives are unclear. She also has to deal with turning eighteen and the extravagant party that Grandmere is throwing for her, and helping her father win an election against her cousin, René. It all sounds very complicated - not forgetting Mia wants to lose her virginity
before graduation. In the end she goes to prom with J.P, planning to have sex
afterwards. After she learns from Lilly that J.P didn't really love anything about her, apart from her fame, Mia breaks up with him and she and Lilly become friends again. Then, Michael appears and takes her back, telling Mia about his undying love for her. She then loses her virginity to Michael near the end of the book. Mia also decides to go to Sarah Lawrence and plans to never again leave Michael.
Young adult literature
Young-adult fiction or young adult literature , also juvenile fiction, is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, roughly ages 14 to 21. The Young Adult Library Services of the American Library Association defines a young adult as "someone between the...
book in the Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries is a series of epistolary novels by Meg Cabot in the chick-lit and young-adult fiction genre, and the title of the first volume, published in 2000....
series. Written by Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot is anAmerican author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pen names, but now writes exclusively under her real name, Meg Cabot...
, it was released on January 6, 2009 by Harper Collins Publishers and is the final novel in the series.
The book was released in the UK on the 2nd of January 2009, and called The Princess Diaries: Ten out of Ten.
Summary
Mia leaves us with an unhappy ending in the ninth book and we join her again in the tenth, which is set two years later, in her last few weeks of school before graduation. She has been dating J.P, keeping in touch with Michael, and building up a friendship with Lana, but she has not yet made up with Lilly. Mia is getting ready for her eighteenth birthday in a week, not to mention PROM and graduation, and still all she does is lie. She has been accepted in every college she applied to, but she fears it's because of her royal condition, and she told everyone she hadn't. She wrote a romance novelRansom My Heart
Ransom My Heart is a romance-novel by Mia Thermopolis with help from Meg Cabot. It was released in the US on January 6, 2009, concurrently with the novel Forever Princess. The book is, according to the Princess Diaries series, written by Mia Thermopolis as her Senior project...
, under an alias, and told everyone it was a paper on Genovian olive oil, and is trying to get it published, with no success. She doesn't feel like going to her prom at all, and Michael is back in town after his CardioArm became a huge success and he has become a rich young man. All of a sudden, everything she was (sort of) sure of goes down the drain. She isn't so sure about her relationship with J.P, whose motives are unclear. She also has to deal with turning eighteen and the extravagant party that Grandmere is throwing for her, and helping her father win an election against her cousin, René. It all sounds very complicated - not forgetting Mia wants to lose her virginity
Virginity
Virginity refers to the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. There are cultural and religious traditions which place special value and significance on this state, especially in the case of unmarried females, associated with notions of personal purity, honor and worth...
before graduation. In the end she goes to prom with J.P, planning to have sex
Sex
In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into a male or female variety . Sexual reproduction involves combining specialized cells to form offspring that inherit traits from both parents...
afterwards. After she learns from Lilly that J.P didn't really love anything about her, apart from her fame, Mia breaks up with him and she and Lilly become friends again. Then, Michael appears and takes her back, telling Mia about his undying love for her. She then loses her virginity to Michael near the end of the book. Mia also decides to go to Sarah Lawrence and plans to never again leave Michael.
External links
- Meg Cabot chat transcript, 30 July 2006. URL accessed 25 April 2006.
- Meg Cabot's Official Website
- Meg Cabot http://www.megcabot.com/comingsoon.php, URL accessed 27 August 2008
- Excerpt of 'The Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess'
- http://megcabot.com/princessdiaries/pd_v10_foreverprincess.php