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| Millicent Min, Girl Genius | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (35 reviews)
Sales Rank: 289708
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0439425204
EAN: 9780439425209
ASIN: 0439425204
Publication Date: September 1, 2004
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Product Description
Millicent Min is having a bad summer. Her fellow high school students hate her for setting the curve. Her fellow 11-year-olds hate her for going to high school. And her mother has arranged for her to tutor Stanford Wong, the poster boy for Chinese geekdom. But then Millie meets Emily. Emily doesn't know Millicent's IQ score. She actually thinks Millie is cool. And if Millie can hide her awards, ignore her grandmother's advice, swear her parents to silence, blackmail Stanford, and keep all her lies straight, she just might make her first friend.What's it gong to take? Sheer genius.
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 Wonderful Read! November 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Absolutely loved this book. A great adult read - not just a kid's book. Complex, entertaining. A lot of fun and worth re-reading.
Genius! April 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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Millicent Min is 11 years old, and she's just finishing up 11th grade. She begs her parents to allow her to take one college class over the summer. They agree, and everything is going fine and dandy until 1) her mom signs her up for volleyball. With sports you need more than smarts to be at the top. And 2) she is forced into tutoring her unintelligent nemesis, Stanford. But her summer just might start shaping up when she meets a new girl, someone her age - who doesn't know Millicent is a genius. Could this girl turn out to be Mil's very first friend? (Unless of course you count her grandmother....)
Funny, smart, and completely engaging, Millicent Min, Girl Genius is an intriguing coming-of-age story with a unique idea. It's a refreshing, quick read that leaves you wanting more. Author Lisa Yee has a boatload of talent. I can't wait to check out the two companion novels to this book, Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time and So Totally Emily Ebers.
Here's a quote to wet your appetite:
I like to reread books after letting a significant amount of time pass. You can't imagine what went through my mind when I first read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood when I was six. I couldn't sleep for weeks. When I read it again last year, I couldn't sleep for days. I take that as a sign that I've matured.
It Isn't Easy Being Millie April 16, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Millicent Min has an impressive resume. She started elementary school at age three, has over seven television appearances to her name, and is the subject of more than six articles on the subject of gifted children. Now that she's eleven and a half, she's about to start her senior year of high school. She is, in short, a genius.
In Millicent Min, Girl Genius, Millicent must endure the summer between her junior and senior years of high school as she counts down to the day she will be free from the company of children, and finally be able to spread her wings in college. This summer, her parents have signed her up for volleyball classes and offered her services as a tutor to friend of the family and obnoxiously typical twelve-year-old boy Stanford Wong. On the upside, they've allowed her to register for a poetry class at a local university, and this summer she's made her first friend.
Millicent goes through all the difficulties of being a smart kid, and she experiences them to the extreme. Her alienation, awkwardness, and pride are all emotions with which anyone ever considered "that smart kid" can identify. Her precociousness is charming and alarming; it seems slightly wrong for a girl of almost twelve to prefer spending time with her poetry professor to attending slumber parties. At the same time, for those of us who are the same way, it seems just right.
Like many other children's and young adult books, Millicent Min, Girl Genius shows us how much change can happen over one summer. Millicent starts off knowing it all, needing no one, and socializing almost exclusively with her grandmother. By the end of the book she realizes she has a lot to learn, comes to appreciate her parents more, and starts hanging out with kids her own age. I strongly recommend Millicent Min, Girl Genius to anyone who loves to laugh, has ever felt like they knew better than the rest of the world, or has been told they're too smart for their own good.
Millie Rules! May 22, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is great! It's about Millicent, and what it's like to be a child genius, new friendships, growing up in life, and more! This book is awsome! It's my all-time favorite book, and I've read a ton! It's a great read!
 Millicent Min, Girl Genius April 6, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I defiantly give this book a 4.5 rating. I loved it! Lisa Yee's unique writing style really kept me hooked the whole way! The storyline was humorous and filled with surprises. . Millicent Min won the Sid Fleischman Humor Award which is awarded to a book with outstanding writing in the genre of humor. I could not agree more, I laughed like crazy throughout this whole book. I especially recommend this to teens in grades 6 through 8 and for anyone who is looking for a great read! Claire. St. John's School Houston, TX
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