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Name of Book: Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time Author: Lisa Yee ISBN: 978-0-439-62248-6 Publisher: Scholastic Apple Part of a Series: Millicent Min trilogy; Millicent Min, Girl Genius, So Totally Emily Ebers Type of book:   young adult, boy book,friendship, first love, interracial relationship,  Asian male/white female, 2000s, California Year it was published: 2005 Summary: "We interrupt your lives to announce Stanford Wong has flunked sixth grade!!!" All right, so maybe there hasn't been an announcement like that. But that's the way it feels to Stanford. He's used to being a hero on hte basketball court, where he's the first sixth-grader ever to make the A-team, and just getting by in class. But when he flunks English-Flunks it big time-and learns he'll have to trade basketball camp for summer school, Stanford freaks out. His friends can't know or they'll dump him. His had has to know and it's awful. The beautiful Emily E...

Name of Book: Millicent Min, Girl Genius Author: Lisa Yee ISBN: 0-439-42520-4 Publisher: Scholastic Part of a Series: Milly Trilly; Stanford Wong flunks big time, So totally Emily Ebers Type of book: young adult, genius, changing, friendship, 2000s Year it was published: 2004 Summary: Millicent Min is having a bad summer. Her fellow high school students hate her for setting the curve. Her fellow eleven-year-olds hate her for going to high school. Her grandmother Maddie is moving away. And in an effort to give Millicent a more "normal" childhood, her mom has not only signed her up for volleyball, she's also arranged for her to tutor Stanford Wong-jock, jerk and poster boy for Chinese geekdom. But when Millicent meets Emily, things start to look up. Emily doesn't know Millicent's IQ score. She actually thinks Millicent is cool. And if Millicent can hide her awards, ignore her grandmother's advice, blackmail Stanford into silence, learn to ...

Name of Book: So Totally Emily Ebers Author: Lisa Yee ISBN: 978-0-439-83847-4 Publisher: Arthur A Levine Part of a Series: Millicent Min, Girl Genius, Stanford Wong flunks big-time Type of book: 2000s, first love, divorce, friendship, coming of age, interracial AM/WF young adult relationship. Year it was published: 2008 Summary: In a series of letters to her absent father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving cross-country, her parents' divorce, a new friendship, and her first serious crush. Characters: The characters are all likable and tend to be somewhat on the eccentric side; you have Emily's mom Alice who tries to be a hippie, Millicent's family, her parents and grandmother and even Stanford. The characters are seen through Emily's eyes, thus nothing outside her knowledge is revealed about them. (All of a sudden I'm curious about reading Millicent Min and Stanford Wong books.) It's also curious at the way Emily resent...

Name of Book: Warp Speed Author: Lisa Yee ISBN: 978-0-545-12276-4 Publisher: Levine books Type of book: coming of age, young adult, bullying, blackmailing, spin-off novel Year it was published: 2011 Summary: Entering 7th grade is no big deal for Marley Sandelski: Same old boring classes, same old boring life. The only thing he has to look forward to is the upcoming Star Trek convention. But when he inadvertently draws the attention of Digger Ronster, the biggest bully in school, his life has officially moved from boring to far too dramatic . . . from invisible to center stage. Characters: Marley has an interesting sense of humor and seems to think similar to the way I think; cynical and helpless. I would guess he has been bullied for all of his life if he developed this way. Emily still remains her sweet and angelic self who doesn't care about popularity. Stanford matures somewhat, and Millicent is barely seen in the book. Marley's parents are memorable a...