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Description edit
Millicent Min is having a bad summer. Her fellow high school students hate her for setting the curve. Her fellow 11-year-olds hate her for going to high school. And her mother has arranged for her to tutor Stanford Wong, the poster boy for Chinese geekdom. But then Millie meets Emily. Emily... read more
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Characters edit
- Millicent Min: Millicent Min is a genius.
- Emily: Emily is caring and doesn't care if you are smart or dumb. Stanford loves Emily and Emily loves Stanford.
- Standford Wong: Stanford Wong is Miliicent Min's nemesis. He is a basketball jock who is flunking middle school.
- Maddie: Maddie is Millicent Min's grandmother.
Quotes edit
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“Volleyball reminds me of kindergarten - something I tried but was just not suited for.”
Millicent Min -
“At the gifted children conference, I attempted a cartwheel in the hallway when no one was looking. I like to bring that up when people accuse me of not being fun an spontaneous.”
Millicent Min -
“The are good silences, like the beat after a fabulous play has just ended and before the audience jumps to its feet applauding. Then there are bad silences, like after you've said, "Actually the hypotenuse is 3.4 centimeters off" to your father's supervisor.”
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“I have never allowed for invisible friends or any of those classic childhood fabrications. I tried to keep an open mind about Santa when I saw how important he was to the adults in my life. Yet when faced with the mathematical improbability of his delivering so many gifts in a mere twelve-hour period, I just could not see how it could be so.”
Millicent Min
First Sentence edit
I have been accused of being anal retentive, an over-achiever, and a compulsive perfectionist, like those are bad things.
Table of Contents edit
No chapters, they are seperated into diary dates.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Arthur a Levine
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0439425190
Page Count: 256
Publisher: Arthur a Levine
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0439425190
Page Count: 256
Awards edit
- The Sid Fleischman Humor Award (2004)
- Bank Street Best Book of the Year (2004)
- Young Hoosier Book Award (Indiana) (Finalist)
- Georgia Children's Book Award (Finalist)
- Garden State Book Awards (Finalist)
- Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award (Finalist)
- Nevada Young Readers' Award (Finalist)
- Nene Award (Hawaii) (Finalist)
- Isinglass Teen Award (New Hampshire) (Finalist)
- Young Readers' Choice Award (Pacific Northwest)
- South Carolina Junior Book Award (Finalist)
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