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    Millicent Min, Girl Genius

    Written by Lisa Yee

    Narrated by Keiko Agena

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    About this audiobook

    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. Her grandmother Maddie is moving away, and in an effort to give Millicent a more "normal" childhood, her mom has not only signed her up for volleyball, she's also arranged for Millie to tutor Stanford Wong-jock, jerk, and poster boy for Chinese geekdom.

    But when Millicent meets Emily, things start to look up. 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, blackmail Stanford into silence, learn to serve a volleyball over the net, stop her parents from embarrassing her forever, and keep all her lies straight, she just might make her first friend.

    What's it going to take? Sheer genius.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 14, 2003
    ISBN9780807219324
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    Reviews for Millicent Min, Girl Genius

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    • 5/5
      Did you like "Ferris Buehler's Day Off?" Of course you did. Everybody likes that movie. But did you like Ferris Buehler? Of course, how could you not. And yet, if you take a little time to think about him, you realize that virtually nobody would like him. He was awful!Lisa Yee pulls off the same sort of trick with Millicent Min, Girl Genius. Millicent is 11 years old and a junior in high school, taking her first college course during the summer. She is a genius in the truest sense of the word. And you will like her. You wouldn't like her if you really knew her - she's as conceited and obnoxious as you might imagine a child like that would be.But only at first, for the book is about Millicent learning how much real life she is missing, and how to start taking part in it. When she meets Emily, on a vollyball team her mother has forced her into, she starts to make her first real friend her age... ever. And she has to tutor the seemingly idiotic Stanford Wong, who also turns out to have more substance than Millicent ever imagined.This book was a very pleasant surprise. Loved it!
    • 5/5
      Impressive--great well-rounded characters. Loved the role of the grandmother Maddie and the way we are so inside Millie's head so we can laugh about how naive she is about social situations. A happy book, nice.
    • 4/5
      Millicent Min, Girl Genius, is the debut novel of Lisa Yee. It is the story of an 11 year old girl who is finishing her junior year of high school. She decides to take a college course over the summer and also ends up tutoring a boy named Stanford, whom she has known her whole life and does not like. She doesn't have any friends until a new girl moves in the neighborhood named Emily. Millicent hides her genius from Emily because she thinks that Emily will not want to be her friend if she knows she is a genius. Also, Millicent's mother signs her up for volleyball to try and help Millicent feel more like a kid, something that Millicent feels is not needed. Thus ensues the very interesting summer of Millicent Min.Lisa Yee did a great job on her debut novel. Writing about an 11 year old in high school would see impossible to make realistic, but I feel that Lisa did a great job of bringing life to Millicent Min. The reader begins to see that being a genius may not be all its cracked up to be. I recommend this book for kids of all ages. It can help them see through the eyes of someone who is "different" and maybe gleen a better understanding that being different can be okay.
    • 5/5
      A cute and hilarious novel following Millicent "Millie" who is an extremely young genius and hopes to 'fit in' to society. It's a great short read and I would recommend this book!
    • 3/5
      I started listening to this book with my 10 year old daughter on a road trip home from Minnesota. Although not particularly original, the story was good with a great message for the teen audience - be yourself and don't try to be what you think others want you to be. In short, Millicent Min is an 11 year old genius preparing for her senior year of high school and college enrollment when she has the chance to make a "normal" (i.e., not a genius) friend her own age. Concerned that her intelligence will cause her new friend to turn away, Millicent proceeds to hide her intelligence and all proof of her advanced education, with the expected results.I would recommend this book as a "safe" reading choice, without any gratuitous language or mature situations.
    • 5/5
      Millicent Min is finishing high school and taking her first college course. She can recite the names of all the American presidents alphabetically and by time in office. She’s a Math Club champion, and can beat everyone in her school in chess. She is also eleven years old and friendless.Despite the somewhat dour synopsis I just gave, Millicent Min is one of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time. Millicent is so smart and analytical, yet so clueless socially, that you can’t help but laugh as you watch her try to navigate the world of friendship. And you can’t help but feel sorry for her when you realize just how much her high IQ has alienated her from her peers.The characters in this book are sparkling and interesting. Millicent, as the narrator, is a hoot, whether or not she realizes it. What I also liked were the characterizations of her parents and grandmother. Lisa Yee’s adults aren’t absent and blank; they are as dynamic as the children characters, and you see them go through similar problems. I really liked that inclusion of an adult world, especially for Millicent who acts so adult already. I also liked that Millicent was Chinese (like me), but that it wasn’t a dominating theme. This isn’t a book about a Chinese girl; this is a book about smart girl who can’t seem to fit in.Even though it’s meant for children, it’s clever, sensitive, and humorous enough that adults will enjoy it too.
    • 5/5
      Millicent Min is a genius. She's only 11, but about to enter her senior year of high school. For fun this summer she's taking a college level poetry class. And things are fine, really. Her parents are forcing her to take a volleyball class, which is a little annoying. Oh, and she's tutoring Stanford Wong, this jerky kid she can't stand. And pretty much her only friend is her grandma Maddie... but really, things are fine. Enter Emily Ebers. Millie meets Emily at volleyball and they click instantly. Finally Millicent has a friend her own age! The only problem is that Millicent hasn't told Emily that she's a genius. She's afraid that if she tells Emily that everything will change between them, so she keeps putting it off. But Millie can't put it off forever.... can she?I really enjoyed this book a lot! I found Millicent's narrative voice to be hilarious because of how seriously she takes herself. I also really liked that it has an Asian American main character, but race is not really much of an issue. The book was fun and funny and touching at the same time, seeing Millicent really begin to grow and realize that there is more to people than brains.
    • 3/5
      A really fun book about a girl genius and the wonders of friends.
    • 3/5
      I dunno. I wanted to like this more than I did. And there's nothing really wrong with it. It's a tiny bit cliched & predictable, and Millie comes across, esp. at the beginning, more as if she has Asperger's than just plain too much smarts. Otoh, what about when Millie was practicing [her] spontaneous laugh" - ? I bet lots of people have done that.

      And I think that her parents pushed her too hard to become 'more well-rounded' and to make friends, even though that worked out in the end.

      I guess maybe I identified with Millie too much. I don't believe that it's automatically unhealthy not to want to play team sports or to make friends. And all the examples of things that Yee uses to illustrate Millie's eccentricities seem normal to me. For example, it's perfectly ok, imo, to "add up our Taco Bell receipt to make sure we hadn't been overcharged."

      True, Millie is only 11 and so she needs to be shown the world beyond her books - but who made those books available in the first place? I just didn't find her parents to be convincingly developed. And I didn't find her change of attitude/ personality from bookworm to social butterfly to be convincing, either.

      Um, I think I have more to say, but I can't think of it right now..."
    • 5/5
      Booktalk: Millicent Min is an excellent student. She's on the honor roll and she won first place in a statewide math competition. She's just passed the 11th grade with flying colors and looks forward to starting college soon. Oh, by the way, Millicent is 11 years old.

      She's what you call an academic prodigy. Which means she's a genius. Millicent loves learning and reading and solving complicated problems, like helping the next-door neighbors with their taxes. Just hear how thrilled she is about the first college class she's taking this summer: (play read pp. 16-17, "At 9:28" to end of chapter).

      But as smart as Millicent is, she's pretty clueless. She doesn't have friends her age and she really doesn't know how to make any. Actually who wants to be friends with some little kid who sets the grading curve for the entire junior class? So life can be pretty lonely for Millicent.

      Then Millicent meets Emily who's just moved to town from New Jersey. Unlike the other kids Emily doesn't know Millicent is a genius. Even better, Emily likes Millicent and they hang out together over the summer. Millicent is sure this friendship will last only as long as Emily doesn't find out she's a genius. So she hides away all her academic trophies and certificates and award ribbons, and she works hard to make it seem like she's just a regular kid. A clever plan to be sure--but is she genius enough to hide the truth forever?
    • 5/5
      This is an upper elementary level or young adult chapter book about Millicent Min, an eleven-year-old girl who is a genius and starting her first college course over the summer. She has a hard time fitting in and making friends and she finally finds one with Emily. She also has to deal with learning to play volleyball, tutoring her arch enemy and her grandmother (who is her best friend) moving to London. She decides to keep her genius status a secret from Emily and it doesn't turn out so well. This is a fantastic and funny book about learning to fit in, being yourself and dealing with change. It is told in the form of a diary and there is a lot of sarcastic wit and deadpan humor because of Millicent's intelligence and naiveté in some social situations. I think that this book could be great for reading groups or even a read aloud. The themes in this book are great for the audience to hear and discuss because they could be struggling with the same issues like finding a place they belong or dealing with a big change in their lives. The only illustration is the cover and feature Millicent and a volleyball. There are also two other books in the trilogy which cover the same story line but from Stanford Wong and Emily Ebers’ point of view.
    • 5/5
      Millicent Min is finishing high school and taking her first college course. She can recite the names of all the American presidents alphabetically and by time in office. She’s a Math Club champion, and can beat everyone in her school in chess. She is also eleven years old and friendless.Despite the somewhat dour synopsis I just gave, Millicent Min is one of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time. Millicent is so smart and analytical, yet so clueless socially, that you can’t help but laugh as you watch her try to navigate the world of friendship. And you can’t help but feel sorry for her when you realize just how much her high IQ has alienated her from her peers.The characters in this book are sparkling and interesting. Millicent, as the narrator, is a hoot, whether or not she realizes it. What I also liked were the characterizations of her parents and grandmother. Lisa Yee’s adults aren’t absent and blank; they are as dynamic as the children characters, and you see them go through similar problems. I really liked that inclusion of an adult world, especially for Millicent who acts so adult already. I also liked that Millicent was Chinese (like me), but that it wasn’t a dominating theme. This isn’t a book about a Chinese girl; this is a book about smart girl who can’t seem to fit in.Even though it’s meant for children, it’s clever, sensitive, and humorous enough that adults will enjoy it too.
    • 4/5
      Millicent Min is eleven years old and getting ready to begin her senior year of high school. Because of her genius status, she finds it difficult to fit in with either peers of her age or peers of her mental ability that she meets in a college course. Over the summer, she struggles to make friends, play volleyball, tutor an annoying boy, and come to grips with her grandmother’s move.