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lalalaLANUH

Jun 6 2006, 06:58 PM

Ah, I love this book. Has anyone else read it?

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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 going to take? Sheer genius.

And...I misspelled her name in the topic title lol. Can someone fix that. >.<

sakaitone

Jun 9 2006, 08:17 PM

I don't think there was any point in the story. It just made me mad. She thought Emily wouldn't be her friend because she was smart. She's really wierd and I don't think half of her thought process made sense. I am not saying it wasn't a good book or that you're wrong to like it but that book just made me MAD. I liked Stanford Wong flunks big time better.

radhikaeatsraman

Jun 12 2006, 07:47 PM

I liked the book, but Millicent's family was so...white. You wouldn't think they were Asian, AT ALL. Especially her grandmother. I liked the book, but I expected Millicent's parents to be all "GO STUDY YOUR CALCULUS!!" than "Hey, sign up for volleyball."

But Stanford's parents were pretty Asian. "Why can't you be more like Millicent!?!"

n_Oodles

Jun 22 2006, 12:56 AM

I like that book

Right now I'm reading the other one she wrote... Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time...its good but I like Millicent Min better

marzipan

Jun 22 2006, 01:13 AM

i haven't heard of them, but it sounds kind of weird.

jaeminnie

Oct 8 2006, 09:37 AM

Yeah, I read that! It was pretty good. I felt so bad for Millicent.

Serendipity

Oct 8 2006, 01:49 PM

It's one of my favorite books. It's hilarious.
Read the sequel too - Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time.

angelrevelation

Nov 21 2006, 06:54 PM

It was a little too... kiddish to me. the thinking. even though she was a genius. And like the person said up there, the family wasn't asian at all

Back-up Battery.

Nov 23 2006, 12:07 AM

I read that book like a year or two ago. It was good, but not one of my favorites. [=

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