RETOLD BY ANNE COLLINS

A dashing romantic story set in California in the previous century. This classic adventure comedy founded a whole genre of its own. Short stories, feature films, highly popular television series and animated cartoons have resulted, all featuring the people's hero with the flashing sword Zorro!

As if the fact that her mother is marrying her algebra teacher isn't bad enough, Mia then manages to announce the engagement on live television. Mia's grandmother immediately starts making arrangements for a grand state wedding - greatly upsetting Mia's mother. Then Mia's mother and her fiance go missing... To add to her problems, Mia finds hers...

Mia Thermopolis lives with her mother in New York City. One day her life changes forever as she discovers that she is the Princess of Genovia. Mia must forget her teenage ways and learn royal etiquette. But Mia doesn't want to be a princess or live in Europe. She wants to be a normal teenage girl. What will happen to Mia when her classmates find...

Ed Malone - a young newspaper reporter - joins a team of explorers, headed by the eccentric Professor Challenger, who claims he has found a lost world where animals believed to have become extinct millions of years ago still survive. Are there really dinosaurs living deep in the Amazon jungle?