Millicent Min, Girl Genius

by Lisa Yee

Book Overview

Who would have thought being smart could be so hard (and funny)?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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439425190
• ISBN13: 9780439425193
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Not Your Typical Teenager

1. Millicent Min is not your typical teenager, she is an eleven year old genius. She takes summer classes and this is her graduating year. Her best friend is her Grandmother, Mattie; she has no other friends. When she goes to college she meets this twenty year old girl named Debbie; they become friends. But then Debbie just uses her. So she just has her grandmother. One day Millicent's mom signs her up for volleyball, she was horrified. She meets this twelve year old girl named Emily; they become really good friends. They call each other, go over to each other's house, and spend time with each other all the time. But Millicent just can't tell Emily about her being a genius. Emily finally finds out. Read the book to find out how Emily feel about it. 2.I thought this was an awesome book so I give it 5 stars. I could read it over again if I wanted to. 3.Static Character is used in the story. Static Character is when a character changes as the story progresses. Millicent is not good at volleyball at first, but as she practices she gets better. 4.If you like realistic fiction you would like this book because everything that occurs could happen in real life. This is kinda a chick flick book.

Smart and Funny "Genius"

The debut novel Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee is an absolute riot. Millicent is eleven years old - and recently completed eleventh grade. Over the summer, she plans to take college courses and (unhappily) tutor Stanford, a boy who drives her up a wall. Her mother, thinking she needs more of a social life with kids her own age, enrolls her in a summer volleyball team. There, she meets a girl who recently moved to town and does not know of Millicent's collegiate status. What's a smart girl to do? This hilarious book teaches young kids and adults like everywhere that it is okay to be smart. Millicent may feel much older than she is, mentally, but chronologically, she is still a kid. By the end of the summer, she is a little more comfortable in her own skin and proud of who she is and what she's accomplished. Pop culture tidbit: The audio book is read by Keiko Agena, known as Lane on Gilmore Girls.I highly recommend this book to kids of all ages. (You too, parents and teachers.) Kids reading comedic realistic fiction such as the Ramona Quimby series by Beverly Cleary, the Alice McKinley series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor or the Judy Moody series by Megan McDonald will certainly adore Millicent Min. I hope that Yee writes more tales, if not of Millicent, then of others. She has a real knack.

Silly Milli!

Millicent Min is a good, no great book to read! Not only is it fun filled and funny but it's loaded with little pieces of advice that are very true thanks to the wonderful author Lisa Yee. It's about this very smart girl who has no friends because she is always critizing and correcting them but then her mother signs her up (against her will) for the dreaded volleyball team. There she finally makes a friend, Emily, but Emily doesn't know Milli's secret of being a college student at the age of eleven. Will Millicent tell Emily? And if she does will Emily still be friends? Find out by reading the book. I've heard that her book is so great that they're going to make it in Italian and it's already out on audio tape! What luck for a first time book! Congrads Mrs. Yee

Mrs. Gowin Rules!

I really enjoyed reading this book. It made me laugh; it made me cry. It made me see things through the eyes of a young person again. Millicent, blessed and cursed with being a child genius, needs something that we all take for granted -- a friend. When Millicent thinks she has finally found someone, Emily, who is willing to be her friend she stops at nothing to keep her friendship going. Meanwhile, she's forced into tutoring the one person with whom she doesn't want to be friends, Stanford. To further complicate matters, Emily and Stanford develop a romantic relations of their own that makes for some interesting plot twists and ironic scenes. In the end, Emily finds true friendship, although in the place she least expected to find it. Henrietta Gowin, my favorite character, really has little to do with the story but that name, Henrietta Gowin, rings of sophistication. Her character must have been inspired by an exceptional person.

Smart Book!

I know a lot of people like Millicent Min. Even though they may seem smart and confident, they are just regular kids inside. At first I thought Millie was stuck up. Then, I really got to like her. What I really liked about this book was how funny it was. It made me laugh out loud.