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Summary: Not Just Kid Stuff
Review: Millie is a grown-up trapped in a kid's world. This story is a kid's book that works on an adult level - a brilliant achievement by this gifted writer. I'm 43 and read all types of books. Although this was probably written more for my daughter - a "tween" - I really enjoyed it. Yee has a quirky sense of humor and a keen power of observation. When she writes about the awkward introduction of Stanford and Millie, the dialogue brought me right back to middle school and made me chuckle. When Millie's mom asks her if she is happy, and reveals her own joy, it made me cry. Great book. Give it a try!
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Summary: For kids of all ages
Review: Recently we were given a copy of Millie. When I picked it up to flip through the pages, I couldn't put it down. And I am a 54 year old father of 6. If you have friends with kids, send them a copy.
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Summary: Smart and Funny "Genius"
Review: The debut novel Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee is an absolute riot. Millicent is eleven years old - and recently completed eleventh grade. Over the summer, she plans to take college courses and (unhappily) tutor Stanford, a boy who drives her up a wall. Her mother, thinking she needs more of a social life with kids her own age, enrolls her in a summer volleyball team. There, she meets a girl who recently moved to town and does not know of Millicent's collegiate status. What's a smart girl to do? This hilarious book teaches young kids and adults like everywhere that it is okay to be smart. Millicent may feel much older than she is, mentally, but chronologically, she is still a kid. By the end of the summer, she is a little more comfortable in her own skin and proud of who she is and what she's accomplished. Pop culture tidbit: The audio book is read by Keiko Agena, known as Lane on Gilmore Girls. I highly recommend this book to kids of all ages. (You too, parents and teachers.) Kids reading comedic realistic fiction such as the Ramona Quimby series by Beverly Cleary, the Alice McKinley series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor or the Judy Moody series by Megan McDonald will certainly adore Millicent Min. I hope that Yee writes more tales, if not of Millicent, then of others. She has a real knack.
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Summary: milli mouse
Review: this book has perhaps crossed a line. maybe a book as shallow has been invented, you havent read it, cause it doesnt exist. it was as sluggish and definetly not straight. full of stereo types, this book fades into dust
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Summary: Smart & Funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:) :) :)
Review: This book was really good but I had one problem. For some reason I just could not picture some of the characters in my head. I always have an image in my head for one of the characters but in this book I couldn't get a good thought of what Millicent's best friend, Emily & Millicent's student, Stanford looked like. On the back of this book it says that Stanford is a geek @ his school but in the book he is the most popular guy @ his school. I don't get it!!!!!!!!!!! Also, the author didn't put a good description of Emily. I couldn't picture her. it just said that she was "big-boned" & that's all. Otherwise, it was a great book. I can't imagine not having any friends like her though. I would be totally lost w/o my friends. In fact I have way too many.
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Summary: Interesting, but Repetitive
Review: This was an excellent book and wasn't too serious, which I like :) It's about an 11-year-old child prodigy named Millicent L. Min who isn't like a typical preteen: she takes college poetry, likes summer classes, and her best friend is her grandmother. She is her normal perfectionist self until her mom signs her up for Volleyball and she becomes friends with Emily, an enthusiastic, sometimes superficial 12 year old girl. They gradually get closer until Millicent betrays Emily by not telling her about her genius IQ and beyond-her-years education level. Then it's up to Millicent to make or break the friendship.
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Summary: OKAY............................
Review: This was an OK book. Just average, with nothing too special about it. But still worth a read. But you may find yourself being annoyed at Emily for being so spoiled and selfish. (...)
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Summary: Lisa Yee's emerges as one of today's best new authors!
Review: When I finished listening to the unabridged audio version of MILLICENT MIN, GIRL GENIUS, I began looking forward to more books by the perceptive and witty Yee. Her book captivates on several levels -- Millie is brilliant, yet naive, Emily is bubbly yet astute, etc. Handling these layers is difficult for even the most seasoned of novelists, yet Yee carries it off with deft skill, touching compassion and sharp humor that never becomes obvious. Basically, Millie is like a preteen Mr. Spock on a planet of William Shatners, but ultimately she realizes the truth of the adage that "everyone is my superior in that I may learn from them." Along the way, we become attached to the rich characterizations Yee spins and the amusing situations that keep us listening and/or reading page after page. Everybody repeat after me: MORE MILLIE! MORE MILLIE! MORE YEE! MORE YEE! Let's hope this is just the beginning of a library of wondrous works from one of America's most promising writers.
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