Within this race of extremely commendable English authors , Chinese authors have marked themselves quite well. That too, with an excellent entertaining touch in English Literature.Lisa Yee is one of them. To mention Millicent Min is her debut.
A book meant for every teenagers in town. Especially for the school-goers.
Millicent Min is a school girl aka “An Einstein”. Well that’s why she is considered a geek and, as usual “AVOIDED”. That turns her summer real bad , when her fellow friends hate her for curving herself into high school. Her grandma (best friend) Maddie is moving out as well.
Her mother signs her in Volleyball classes, possibly to help her attain , what she calls –“HER NORMAL CHILDHOOD”. VB classes bumps her into Emily , who knows NIL about her IQ score.
And there’s Stanford Wong (a dork *her crush* … well she is assigned to be his tutor).
This book showers out the assignments of showing – “I’M NOT GENIUS” so that Millicent actually makes her first friend. FULL ON comedy , crush-able romance, awesome jeopardy and a SURPRISE in the end …
The Synopsis at the back of the book reveals that it has been appreciated by *KIRKUS REVIEWS* , *PAULA DANZIGER* and *HORN BOOK*
Its entertaining and A MUST READ
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