Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee [in AsianWeek]
17 Oct, by in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers
While she may be a bona-fide genius, 11-year-old Millicent Min, who has skipped five grades and is taking a college class for fun, learns that using just the brain does not a whole person...
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Adorable, fabulous story about four families who travel to China to meet and bring home their four waiting little girls.
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