Millicent Min, Girl Genius [Mass Market Paperback]

Are you a Genius, do you have the same problems as Millicent? You probably don’t. That’s what makes Millicent’s life so… funny! She’s is very smart and intelligent. She’s only eleven, and at the age of 11 years old she was in grade eleven at JFK High and Rodgers College! The author had a realistic style, she put common every day problems, like friendship, and how hard it is to find friendship, in the plot of the story, in the extraordinary life, as a genius.

Millicent also had the lies that people around her have told and the unusual lies that Millicent has told. She can’t seem to be able to catch up with reality, and she was working hard tutoring Stanford- and now that Emily was her friend and didn’t know about her sheer genius, the lie she told arrived as Stanford tutoring Millicent. Millicent is no ordinary eleven year old, she is also a genius. Because Millicent’s life is so easy- her mother sends a twist. She sends Millicent to volleyball-where she meets a friend named Emily. And her mom also sends her to college- where she meets a friend named Debbie. And for both of these she is assured of hope of finding a friend that understands her, and confused by friendship.

Do you think Millicent's life is easy, being the smartest kid in her college course? She has friendship and pain, worrying about her mother and grandmother, and of course, graduating. She meets a friend- but her intelligence finally is not very helpful as she hides the truth from her one true friend she met at volleyball, her name is Emily.

Lisa Yee did an excellent job on writing on how she thought it would be like to be a genius. Millicent learns on how hard it is to be a genius, and as the author says “it takes sheer genius”. Lisa Yee wasn’t a genius, as said in ‘about the author’ but instead, shared her ‘sheer genius’ in writing and creating dioramas. This is why her novel is so realistic and excellent because in her writing she shows true understanding. At grade three she had a comment in her report card saying…
“Lisa had written some nice creative stories.” I believe this is one of her books that’s deserving of a reading, whether it is finished in one sitting, and maybe you enjoy sitting down now or then with hot-chocolate, either way, this book will be something you want to read. Millicent Min was her first and probably not last novel to come.

The theme of the novel is friendship, and how hard it is to stay friends without telling a lie.

My favourite part is when Emily and Millicent are having a pillow fight. Emily is always funny, and always very comforting.

She always has someone she loves. I like her because of her friendliness.

After all these problems, she had no clue on what was the truth, why it had to go this way… after all, to answer my question, Millicent has no ordinary life- and no terrible life, instead she had the life… of a sheer genius.