Millicent Min, Girl Genius

By: Lisa Yee

Yee, L. (2003). Millicent Min, girl genius. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books.


Reading Level: Lexile 800

Genius, Friendship, Family, Support, Being different

This is a humorous book which stars an 11 year old genius named Millicent Min. She is entering into her senior year of high school and taking a college class. Millicent is really intelligent but does not have any good friends so her parents sign her up for volleyball in order to meet people her age. What first seems to Millicent as torture transforms into being fun. She meets good friends for life through volleyball.

Suggested Delivery: Each student in the class reads this book independently


Electronic Resources:

Discussion Guide

This is a great reference for Teachers for ideas on discussion questions for using in small or large groups. It is also good for students in order to prepare their material for questions and also help them infer more information from this the book. These questions can be used during and after students read this book.

Meet Lisa Yee

This is Lisa Yee’s website. This is where students can explore this website in order to learn more about the author and why she wrote Millicent Min. Students can also learn about the other books Lisa Yee wrote. This can be used after the students read this book.

Key Vocabulary:

This vocabulary should be taught before reading the book.

Retentive

Compulsive

Accused

Hysteria

Optimistic

Cliques

Depressed

Reading Strategy:

 As a class or a as a small reading group on the board write down words or phrases which describe a genius. This will be used before reading this book. This will help in the predicting of what this book is about.

 Write on the board words that best describe Millicent, Emily and Stanford and compare them to the predictions of a genius. This would be used after the students read this book.

Writing Activity that demonstrates Inferential Comprehension:
Pick a character in the story that you can most relate to. Write a four paragraph essay describing who he or she is and how you can relate to the character.  

Recommended by my 12 year old sister Erin