1. Millicent Min, Girl Genius

ISBN: 0-439-42519-0

Scholastic Press, New York, NY, 2003, $16.95, 248 pages.

2. Age 11 and half

3. Millicent Min, known as Millie, tries to make a friend while hiding her unnormal IQ.

4. Millie is 11 years old and a sheer genius. Already she is a junior in high school, and taking college courses in her summer vacation! But there comes a problem with being a young genius: friends don't come easily.

So, though Millie insists that she has plenty of friends among the teachers and adults, her parents sign her up for volleyball...and tutoring Stanford Wong, her worst enemy who is having trouble passing classes in school.

Volleyball begins as Millie fears: hard, stupid and time-taking. But she meets Emily, a girl who is Millie's age, who lives with her famous journalist mother, and longs to hear from her father.

Here the adventure begins as Millie strives to hide her intelligence, stop her parents from embarrassing her, stop her grandmother Maddie from moving, tutoring Stanford, and becoming friends with Emily.

5. Genius-Friendship-Fiction

9. Rating: 9, The life of Millie seems so real, despite her being a genius, and the book is filled with problems that must be solved.

10. Marie Laursen Canter, Redlands Middle School, Grand Junction, CO, USA.