Perfect Princess by Meg Cabot

just go with it. Golden balls are what princesses used to play with before there were Gameboys) and it fell into the royal pond, she was way bummed out, because nothing bad like that had ever happened to her before. Obviously HER dad never made her take Algebra. But whatever.
    So when this big, ugly frog hopped out of the pond and was all, “I’ll get you your ball back if you kiss me,” the princess was like, “Ew, gross, no way,” because kissing a frog has got to be even worse than kissing a mouth breather who wears a bionater and tucks his sweater into his pants….
    Oh, no, wait. That’s also somebody else.
    But the princess really wanted her ball back, so she told the frog she’d kiss him, and like a lame-o he went and gave her her ball back before making her follow through on her end of the dealio, which if you ask me is like paying the cab driver BEFORE he gets to the airport, but whatever. Anyway, the princess was so overjoyed to have her ball back she took off (no big surprise). Well, the poor frog really had no choice but to hop in and interrupt the royal dinner that night and tell the king how his daughter wouldn’t keep her word. The king was understandably embarrassed (although if a frog hopped into the dining room at the Palais de Genovia and started talking, embarrassed would not be the word to describe my dad’s reaction), and told the princess she had to kiss the frog. The princess was pretty grossed out by this but she had no choice: She kissed the frog.
    And of course the minute her lips touched the frog’s, he turned into a prince, who was not only good-looking but also willing to marry her on the spot, which if you ask me is the most unbelievable thing in the whole story, because hello, it took some of us, like, eight years to get our handsome princes even to ask us out, let alone propose, but whatever.
    The moral of the story is: Don’t judge amphibians by how they look.

    Mia’s Random Act of Princess:
    Be like the Frog Princess: If you’ve done something wrong, don’t make up excuses: Just apologize. And then don’t do it again! People—even princes—will respect you for it.
    SNOW WHITE
    There’s no point in even going into this one, since you all know it so well. I mean, some of us even had Snow White birthday cakes when we turned six, and dressed like her for Halloween four years in a row, and memorized all the songs from the movie and went around singing “Someday My Prince Will Come” until our mothers threatened to buy us Free to be You and Me, so we’d learn that it is both inappropriate and unwise in today’s day and age to wait for princes to come rescue us….
    Mia’s Random Act of Princess:
    Be like Snow White: Don’t take fruit from strangers. This includes people you meet on the Internet. Sure, they SEEM nice, but you never know if that guy claiming to be a Justin Timberlake look-alike might actually be an evil queen out to destroy you.
    PRINCESS MONONOKE
    Princess Mononoke, a character in a Japanese anime movie of the same name, grew up in a forest populated by animal gods, and was herself raised by the Wolf God. When a young prince is infected by an incurable disease thanks to the bite of a Boar God, he travels to the forest in the hope of throwing himself upon the mercy of the all-powerful Deer God, who might be able to save him. When he gets there, however, he finds San (aka Princess Mononoke) who is more than a little hostile toward him thanks to the encroachment of man—in the form of a nearby ironworks— upon her forest. The ironworks is slowly exploiting and killing the forest dwellers, and Princess Mononoke is determined to put a stop to it… even if it means killing her own kind.
    Princess Mononoke is the avenging angel of the environment, and I can’t help wishing that instead of being princess of Genovia, I were princess of the forest she lives in, and that