Millicent Min, Girl Genius

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Millicent Min, Girl Genius
by Lisa Yee
ISBN 9780439425209
Scholastic, Inc., 2004
Contemporary Life
272 pages
12+
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Annotation: Millicent is not your average teenager because of her very high IQ. When she makes a friend, she hides that secret from her but that leads to trouble.

Summary: Millicent Min is born with an amazingly high IQ. But because of her high IQ and the way she talks like a genius, nobody wants to be friends with. Summer is starting and she finds that she has to tutor Stanford Wong, a straight F student and go to volleyball practice. At volleyball, she finds a friend who doesn’t know of her smartness. When Emily (her friend), finds out about her IQ, will she be disappointed or mad?

Critique: This book showed a lot of feelings and the pressure to be smart. The book was also very humorous.

Biography: Lisa Yee is the author of Millicent Min, Girl Genius, Stanford Wong flunks big-time and So Totally Emily Ebers. The winner of the Sid Fleischman Humor Award and Chinese American Librarians Association Book of the Year. Her other accolades include USA Today Critics’ Pick, ALA Notable Book, Junior Library Guild, and 1st place wheelbarrow race (7th grade). She was recently named the 2007 Thurber House Children’s Writer-in-Residence.[1]

[1] http://www.debbimichikoflorence.com/author_interviews/2007/LisaYee.htmlin

You can know more about her by visiting her website: http://www.lisayee.com/Index.htm

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