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Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time (Hardcover)
by Lisa Yee
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Fiction, Award-winning book, Teenage problems, Ages 9-12, Children's book |
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This story is a completely different voice which brings out the soul, the heart, the mind of what it is to be a "boy". |
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Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. in: October, 2005
ISBN: 0439622476
Pages: 304
Measurements: 8.8 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00165
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- Awards & Credential -
A winner of Ala Notable Children's Books |
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In Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time there is not one huge plot, but rather a collection of many problems and the book was written in first person journal format. This book is the companion volume to Millicent Min, Girl Genius (Scholastic, 2003). From birth, when his father named him for his alma mater, great things have been expected from Stanford Wong. When his lack of interest in academics causes him to fail sixth-grade English and lands him in summer school, his star status on his school's basketball team is endangered. It is a summer of turmoil and family tension. Stanford's father is working longer and longer hours to try for a promotion, and a host of other changes are occurring. Stanford must come to grips with missing out on basketball camp, grit his teeth through tutoring sessions with Millicent the genius, see his beloved grandmother moved to an assisted-living facility, and try to hide his summer-school attendance from his buddies. His observations on his overachieving father and sister can be hilarious, and the loving close-up of his grandmother's dementia is wonderfully drawn. Stanford's days are narrated one by one, so readers are privy to all his musings, from the odor of farts to the rush of a first crush. There's much here for boys to identify with, including Stanford's need for parental approval and his single-minded pursuit of the sport he loves. His growth as a person as the summer unfolds is warmly satisfying. The conclusion has Stanford's workaholic father undergo an unexpected and unsubstantiated change of heart, but kids won't mind the surprise happy ending.
Target readers:
Kids aged 9-12
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Lisa Yee has been an inventor, a hand model, and was once paid to eat chocolate. She's been part of the Official Olympic Committee Torch Run Caravan (until the police requested that she leave). And she has the second largest collection of Winnie-the-Poohs in America. Lisa's writing assignments have included cans of refried beans, a speech for a President of the United States, and television specials for Disney.
With the publication of Millicent Min, Girl Genius, Lisa has realized her lifelong dream of becoming an author. Millie won the Sid Fleischman Humor Award and was named a Children's Choice Book for 2004.
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Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't pass sixth grade. If that happens, he won't start on the A-team. If "that" happens, his friends will abandon him and Emily Ebers won't like him anymore. And if that happens, his life will be over. Then his parents are fighting, his grandmother Yin-Yin hates her new nursing home, he's being "tutored" by the world's biggest nerdball Millicent Min-and he's not sure his ballpoint "Emily" tattoo is ever going to wash off.
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Banking, USA
<2006-12-20 00:00>
I read Millicent Min and loved it so I thought I'd give Stanford Wong a try. The characters pretty much covered the spectrum of people that I ran around with when I was that age. Their actions were funny but believable and I can totally relate to Stanford and his crew. Hopefully Ms. Yee will write a third to round out the series. Maybe from the view of Emily or perhaps one of the parents. |
Margie Mitchell, USA
<2006-12-20 00:00>
I haven't enjoyed a book so much since I read Millicent Min, Girl Genius (also by Lisa Yee). Although it's basically the same story told from another point of view, seeing things through a boy's eyes was eye opening. Lisa Yee really captured the humor of the male adolescent. Each page is either a knee slapper or a tear jerker. I just loved it. My only regret is that Henrietta Gowin (a character in the first book) didn't play into this story. Oh well, maybe she'll be back in the next version. |
Debra Garfinkle, USA
<2006-12-20 00:00>
This is a really fun, fast-paced, moving novel about Stanford Wong's summer. Instead of going to basketball camp like he had planned, his parents make him attend summer school. By the end of the book, Stanford opens up his mind and heart to different types of friends, the joy of reading, and a strong belief in himself. The book is filled with humor and poignancy and wonderful characters such as Stanford's dim sum-obsessed grandmother, his silent best friend, and the nerdy genius Millicent Min. This book is a joy to read. |
C. Muehl, USA
<2006-12-20 00:00>
Stanford Wong flunks big was just a random book I saw on a shelf, and the cover looked like someone I knew, and well I opened it and just randomly started reading it and I fell in love with the book! It was just a thoroughly relaxing book, that I just happened to come upon on chance. I enjoyed it very well and it reminded me of myself a lot of the time, it shows the kid in us that we yearn still to have. Be yourself. |
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