The story is about a girl named Samantha Madison who lives in Washington, D.C. She is a sophomore at John Adams Preparatory School. An outcast, she has only one friend, Catherine. Sam is a huge fan of Gwen Stefani and often laments that she is not more like Gwen. Unlike Meg Cabot's Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries, Sam is against popular culture and dyes _her_ entire wardrobe black because she is ``mourning for her generation.'' <sep>, Pronoun: her <sep>, A: Meg Cabot <sep>, B: Mia Thermopolis