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She’s a remnant from the hippy movement, and Millicent loves spending time with her.

Maddie is in her fifties but still asks like she’s a young woman. She does have a cool grandmother, though. After all she sets the curve! Everyone her age is jealous of her for going to high school. She is able to befriend the teacher in her college class, but all the other students hate her. Social skills don’t go so great for Millicent, however. She’s already about to be a senior in high school, and has won numerous awards for her intelligence. Millicent Min is an eleven year-old girl who is enrolling in her first college class over the summer. One of the books, however, was Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee, a good book that I’m glad to have read.Īlthough the main character in this book is a girl, I was able to identify with her a lot because she is smart like me, and she faces a number of debilitating social and family challenges.

They all looked like some kind of weird romance or fantasy that I wanted no part of. The books on the list didn’t excite me, however. You’d think this would be easy for me, of course. 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 befriends her as well.After the school year of seventh grade ended, there was only one school thing left for me to do: Summer reading. Befriending Emily, Millicent thinks that to become her friend she has to hide the fact that she's smart and begins to invoke a series of lies. Then Millicent meets the nice Emily Ebers, a fellow volleyball victim, who has recently moved to California. To make things worse, she has to play volleyball and tutor her arch-enemy, Stanford Wong, who's flunking sixth grade. This young girl has a lot of trouble in her social circle, hated by her peers and fellow students, she's an 11-year-old genius with no friends. The author's first published book, it centers around a girl genius named Millicent Min who attends high school in the fictional town of Rancho Rosetta, California. Millicent Min, Girl Genius is a 2003 children's novel by Lisa Yee.