Yee, Lisa. 2003. Millicent Min, girl genius. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books.

For Millicent Min, an 11-year old genius, the summer is shaping up to be a disaster. Not only have her parents signed her up for team sports, but she has been volunteered to tutor Stanford Wong, a below-average boy who has been a thorn in her side her entire life. If that is not enough, her grandmother and best friend, Maddy has announced that she is going to London for an extended period of time and Millicent begins to think that her mother is seriously ill. Millicent is depressed and feeling more left out than ever, however, things start looking up when she meets Emily, but when Emily discovers Millicent and Stanford studying at the library, Stanford’s insistence that he is tutoring Millicent drives a wedge between the two friends. Throughout the book, Yee uses typical middle-school problems to tell a story that is both funny and touching as readers learn along with Millicent that even though you may be smarter than everyone around you, sometimes, it takes more than a high IQ to live with always being the odd one out and that true friends are always friends no matter how clueless you may be.