Ella was beautiful. Ella was fast. Ella was gone. Ella was never coming back.

Mia Thermopolis is a 15-year-old private school sophomore who lives with her mother Helen Thermopolis and her cat, Fat Louie, in a renovated San Francisco firehouse. Mia is an average student and extremely unpopular. She is seemingly invisible to her crush, Josh Bryant and his cheerleader girlfriend Lana Thomas. Mia, however, has one best friend: Lilly Moscovitz as well as Lilly's brother Michael. ----------------------------------------------- Josh Bryant, the popular boy Mia has a crush on,

C.S. Lewis