Takoyaki Journals

One of my very favorite YA books was The Ordinary Princess, in which BOTH the heroine and the hero were fighteningly ordinary compared to their families. They met in disguise and fell in love as "commoners", and when they discovered they were both royalty they thought it was a grand joke to play on their families that they should return home so he could seek her hand in marriage in a royal capacity. Nobody in either of their families could believe that anyone would want to marry them because they were so ordinary. Her family had a portrait of her done (which glossed over much of her ordinary appearance) and sent to the prince, and she sent him a letter assuring him that she still had freckles and an ugly nose. He wrote back saying something along the lines of, "Where do I hang this portrait of this stranger in my house?!") I loved it.