Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time by Lisa Yee AND Millicent Min, Girl Genius
Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time by Lisa Yee
Stanford flunked 6th grade English. He is headed to summer school. No big-time basketball summer camp after all. Standford is a genius on the basketball court and now he might not get to play on the A team as a 7th grader. He must pass English this summer, but that is too embarrassing to tell his friends, so he just doesn't. His cover story: he tells everyone he has a summer job working every morning at his father's law firm. Instead he spends all morning in school and gets tutored from Millicent Min--a girl his age who is super smart and already in high school. Millie and Stanford have history--they are always getting stuck with each other since their grandmothers are good friends...and they are both Chinese--so it's a community thing and a family thing! They make a pact that NO ONE can know they are working together.
Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee
These are two separate books written about the same time period and people. This one is told in Millicent's point of view as journal entries. Millicent doesn't fit in with her peers very well since she is super smart--she is 6th grade age but getting ready to be a junior in high school. She meets a girl at volleyball (her parents maker her take it at the rec center for the summer) and thinks they can be friends. But this girl can't know Millie is a genius...cause Millie is sure she won't like her. So, she makes the pact with Stanford--and to complicate all this, Stanford and Millie's friend LIKE like one another.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Stanford flunked 6th grade English. He is headed to summer school. No big-time basketball summer camp after all. Standford is a genius on the basketball court and now he might not get to play on the A team as a 7th grader. He must pass English this summer, but that is too embarrassing to tell his friends, so he just doesn't. His cover story: he tells everyone he has a summer job working every morning at his father's law firm. Instead he spends all morning in school and gets tutored from Millicent Min--a girl his age who is super smart and already in high school. Millie and Stanford have history--they are always getting stuck with each other since their grandmothers are good friends...and they are both Chinese--so it's a community thing and a family thing! They make a pact that NO ONE can know they are working together.
Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee
These are two separate books written about the same time period and people. This one is told in Millicent's point of view as journal entries. Millicent doesn't fit in with her peers very well since she is super smart--she is 6th grade age but getting ready to be a junior in high school. She meets a girl at volleyball (her parents maker her take it at the rec center for the summer) and thinks they can be friends. But this girl can't know Millie is a genius...cause Millie is sure she won't like her. So, she makes the pact with Stanford--and to complicate all this, Stanford and Millie's friend LIKE like one another.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
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Cheers,
Lisa Yee, author