Millicent Min: Girl Genius
A Genius Girl or A Lack of Social Ability Girl
I chose the book Millicent min girl Genius by Lisa Yee as my winter reading. And it was published by Scholastic.
Millicent, a girl who can learn to read at 3 and was kicked out of the kindergarten for being too smart. She gets into the high school at the age of 10, and at 11 she studies in senior high. She is good at math that she never get scores that’s lower than A. But she is not her same ages students would want her to be their friends. Millicent barely is in common with them. But that all changes when her mother forces her to attend the volleyball club. There no one knows how smart she is. All they know is that Millicent isn’t good at playing volleyball. And so is Emily. Millicent’s first good friend. When Millicent has a sleepover at Emily’s house, she knows how to be a normal girl. But being a normal girl can’t be herself at all. So Millicent is always worried what she should do when Emily finds out that she is studying in a college school but not in middle school. And that just keeps Millicent breaking the promise about always being honest to each other.
The most interesting part for me is the friendship between Millicent and Emily. At first Millicent wouldn’t want Emily to know the thing about being a genius. Because she thinks the reason why she didn’t have any friends was because she is a genius. And when Emily found out this truth, she definitely was mad. But she wasn’t mad at Millicent being a genius, but for her not telling the truth and trusting their friendship. Until then Millicent figured out that she wasn’t always being honest to this friendship. Best friends should be talking and sharing about everything. If you are not serious and true to your friend, how could your friend doing the same thing back to you? Millicent learned the lesson and finally understood that being a genius was not all to be blamed.
This book isn’t so hard to read and understand. It uses a humor and simple way to let me know that what Millicent has learned. She learns that to make a true friend, you must also be true to yourself and except for who you are. At first she just spent her time on studying because that’s her moment to relax and feel free. She didn’t understand what her problem that not making any friends was. She thought it is okay if you don’t have any friends but there are teachers with you. She wouldn’t dare to face the truth that she is afraid of what people think about her being a genius. That’s why she couldn’t be so honest to Emily at first, for she was afraid to open her mind and might lose her first friend. But I am glad to see her change through her summer.Ann Huang 00121333
