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Happy Thursday! #tbt features Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee. Eleven-year-old Millicent Min may be a genius, but she's socially inept. She has convinced her parent to let her take a college course but is disappointed with the laziness of the students there. Her parents want her to be a little girl and make friends, so they enroll her in a summer volleyball program where she meets new girl, Emily. Emily doesn't know how insufferable Milli tends to get, so Milli tones down her genius side in order to make friends. Unfortunately, Stanford Wong, her nemesis has also caught Emily's eye.
This was Ms. Yee's debut novel and the first of three companion novels, each told from the point of view of the three middle schoolers. Milicent Min, Girl Genius was published in October of 2003 and is told in a series of journal entries. Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time was published in October of 2005 and So Totally Emily Ebers was published in 2007. All three novels are laugh-out-loud hilarious. Happy reading!
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