Books by Lisa Yee and Complete Book Reviews
Lisa Yee, Author . Scholastic/Levine $16.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-439-42519-3
Readers don't have to share Millicent Min's IQ to empathize with the 11-year-old genius narrator featured in this energetic first novel. Millicent breezes through high school and college classes, but when it comes to making friends her own...
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Lisa Yee, Author . Scholastic $4.99 (248p) ISBN 978-0-439-42520-9
An 11-year-old breezes through high school and college classes, but when it comes to making friends her own age, she's at a loss. "Readers don't have to share the heroine's IQ to empathize with the genius narrator of this energetic...
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Lisa Yee, Author . Scholastic/Levine $16.99 (296p) ISBN 978-0-439-62247-9
Fans of Millicent Min, Girl Genius
, have a chance to take a closer look at Millicent's nemisis, Standford Wong, in this winsome companion novel told from Standford's point of view. Here, behind Standford's pesky exterior, readers will...
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Lisa Yee, Author . Scholastic/Levine $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-439-83844-3
Moving from middle grade into YA fiction, Yee (Millicent Min, Girl Genius
) brings both a flair for comic timing and a sense of pathos. Maybe (short for Maybelline, her mother’s favorite mascara) dyes her hair with Kool-Aid, hides her figure...
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Lisa Yee, Author , illus. by Dan Santat. Scholastic/Levine $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-545-05592-5
When Bobby enters fourth grade, he learns that it's more important than ever to keep his longtime friendship with Holly a secret (“We used to be sorta-best friends, only these days she's my enemy,” he admits to his goldfish)....
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Lisa Yee, Scholastic/Levine, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-545-12276-4
Yee (Bobby the Brave [Sometimes]) offers another empathetic portrayal of an outsider with unique attributes in this story about seventh-grader Marley Sandelski, an admitted geek, who loves Star Trek, old movies, and his Technical Sciences class....
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Lisa Yee. Scholastic/Levine, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-545-23094-0
The downward spiral of popular high-school senior Higgs Boson Bing, named after the elusive “God particle,” begins when a classmate asks him a hypothetical question about his willingness to donate a kidney to his girlfriend, Roo. Higgs’s hesitant...
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Lisa Yee, Author, Keiko Agena, Read by , read by Keiko Agena. Listening Library $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-1930-0
Youthful actress Agena, perhaps best known for her role as Lane Kim on TV's Gilmore Girls
, is perfect as Millicent Min, a certified genius who still has plenty to learn in this humorous and touching novel. Millicent has always been an...
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Lisa Yee. Random House, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-984830-25-8
In this fast-paced narrative, Chinese American only child Maizy Chen travels with her food stylist single mother from Los Angeles to her mom’s hometown of Last Chance, Minn., to care for Maizy’s ailing grandfather. As the 11-year-old gets to know...
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Lisa Yee, illus. by Dan Santat. Random House, $14.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-9848-3029-6
Ever since her grandmother Mimi’s death, East Asian American tween Olive Cobin Zhang—who “never fit in” at school and hardly sees her busy parents—has felt especially alone. Worse, her mother abruptly sends her to a former castle that had been...
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