Millicent Min, Girl Genius
| Author | Lisa Yee |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Arthur A. Levine Books |
Publication date | October 1, 2003 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 256 pp (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-439-34257-0 |
| OCLC | 51009159 |
| LC Class | PZ7.H62964 Ki 2004 |
Millicent Min, Girl Genius is a 2003 children's novel by Lisa Yee. The author's first published book, it is about a girl genius named Millicent Min who attends high school in the fictional town of Rancho Rosetta, California. This young girl has a lot of trouble in her social circle. She is an 11-year-old genius but she has no friends. To make things worse, she has to go play for volleyball. She also has to tutor her arch enemy Stanford Wong who almost flunked sixth grade. Then Millicent meets nice Emily Ebers, a fellow volleyball victim, but thinks that to become her friend she has to hide the fact that she is smart. The rest of the novel is spent with Millicent trying to keep her secret from Emily while also having to deal with other problems such as her Grandmother Maddie moving away and having to deal with Stanford especially when he finds out about Emily and becomes her friend as well.
In the companion books, Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time and So Totally Emily Ebers, this situation is shown from the other children's points of view.
Awards & nominations
- Sid Fleischman Humor Award 2004
- Publishers Weekly Flying Start
- CCBC Choice
- Bank Street Book of the Year 2004
- International Reading Association Children's Choice
- 2005-2006 Texas Lone Star List Nominee
- The Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee
- Georgia Book Award Nominee
- Garden State Book Awards Nominee
- Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award Nominee
- Nevada Young Readers Award Nominee
- Nene Award Nominee (Hawaii)
- Insinglass Teen Award Nominee (New Hampshire)
- Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee - Pacific Northwest Library Association
- South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominee
Summary
The novel starts with Millicent leaving the last day of high school and going to visit her grandmother Maddie. While waiting at her house Millicent remembers how sad she felt that nearly no one signed her yearbook during the school day. When Maddie arrives Millicent tells her of the activities she has planned for them to help cheer her up from her depression caused by her Grandpa's death earlier that year. Eventually Maddie tells Millicent of how they should try to do some things on their own, which saddens Milliceent a little. Millicent then remembers her college class she will take over the summer on the subject poetry and then worries about her age diffrence with the group she'll take the class with due to how her age had caused problems for her education since on the first day of high school when she was nine years old and her Grandmother Maddie accompanied her due to how her parents being very protective of her sent her with Millicent who eventually caused a scenario when she tried to try to teach some students a lesson for teasing Millicent by doing kung-fu and eventually got stuck in a position which caused Millicent to be embarrassed.