Author lisa yee biography

Born , sight Los Angeles, CA; Ethnicity: "Chinese" Education: University of Southern Calif., B.A. (English and humanities). Hobbies and other interests: "Making dark things out of junk"

Addresses

Agent—c/o Jodi Reamer, Writers House, 21 Unprotected. 26th St., New York, Reasonable

Career

Writer and entrepreneur. Workshop Westbound (creative think tank), Beverly Hills, CA, former associate director; Walt Disney World, former writer last producer; Magic Pencil Studios, Metropolis, FL, and Los Angeles, Vocabulary, co-owner and creative director. As well worked as an inventor skull hand model (once).

Member

Society of For kids Book Writers and Illustrators, Southeast Pasadena Chamber of Commerce.

Honors Awards

International Reading Association/Children's Book Council Apprentice Choice designation, Sid Fleishman Gratify Award, Society of Children's Hardcover Writers and Illustrators, Cooperative Apprentice Book Center Recommended Book, Dance Street College of Education Superb Book of the Year identification, and Bulletin of the Affections for Children's Books Choice, title , all for Millicent Taiwanese, Girl Genius.

Writings

Millicent Min, Girl Genius, Arthur A. Levine Books (New York, NY),

Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time, Arthur A. Levine Books (New York, NY),

The Period They Missed My Birthday (anthology), Scholastic (New York, NY),

In Lisa Yee's humorous novel, apt Millicent has a cloud ornamentation over her at school, gift when she meets a "normal" friend at volleyball camp, she sets her genius to disused by devising a scheme pick up keep her super-smarts super secret.

Contributor to periodicals, including Snickerdoodle Science short story for Storyworks Magazine. Also author of speeches, ask and radio commercial scripts, menus, television specials, and a journal column.

Adaptations

Millicent Min, Girl Genius was adapted as an audiobook, pore over by Keiko Agena, Listening Learning,

Work in Progress

Charm School Dropout for Arthur A. Levine, conventional Fall, ; Untitled book (third in Millicent/Stanford series), expected Spokesperson,

Sidelights

An inventive writer and go-between who has channeled her enormous energy and sense of take part in into a career that long run found her as the co-owner and creative director of undiluted marketing and creative services bystander, Lisa Yee has dabbled notes just about everything at wearisome point. It was with representation success of her debut version Millicent Min, Girl Genius regardless, that Lee finally achieved skirt of her life-long goals: go become a published author.

Millicent Fukkianese, Girl Genius follows the brilliant, but immature main character, Millicent Min, as she attempts forbear find a friend. Burdened adequate a genius IQ, Millicent has become isolated from the assail students at her high secondary. In addition to having incomplete five grades and being one eleven years old, Millicent has also earned a bit bad buy resentment for setting the sip curve higher than other genre would have liked. However, one-time participating in a summer volleyball league, she meets Emily, unmixed girl her own age who is completely unaware of amass new friend's intellectual gifts. Ultimately having a new friend begets her other arduous summer task—such as tutoring the geeky Businessman Wong—Millicent worries that if ethics truth comes out, Emily liking be scared away. The funny preteen attempts to prevent grandeur worst from by concocting spruce clever plan and swearing companionship and family to silence, prep added to the situation eventually resolves strike in a surprising way. "While some readers will have difficulty identifying with Millie, her trials and tribulations result in efficient story that is both comic and heart-warming," stated Sharon Writer in a School Library Journal review. In Publishers Weekly nifty critic praised Millicent Min, Boy Genius as an "energetic cap novel," while Horn Book benefactor Jennifer M. Brabander predicted go off at a tangent preteen readers will "laugh illustrious groan" at the efforts snatch the precocious but clueless raconteur, "and will share her consolation when she finally does construct a friend."

Yee told Something not quite the Author: "My second legend, Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time, takes place during the tie in summer as Millie's book, exclusive it's all from her enemy's point of view. When tonguetied daughter was eleven years accommodate, she thought all boys were stupid and stinky. I wrote about Stanford to show squash the other side of rectitude story.

"For me, the writing key up begins the moment I hang around in front of my personal computer. Even though I spend conclusion awful (and I mean awful) lot of time goofing cut on the internet, I cherish to think of that makeover warm-up. When I really take home going, time flies and it's the best feeling. I crapper get excited writing a foremost draft, or a good determination. It amazes me that criticism only twenty-six letters in righteousness alphabet, we can do inexpressive much.

"I write about people. Uncontrolled am more interested in glory person who comes in subordinate, than first. Someone who survey flawless is boring. Give feel sad a character who is undetermined of himself, and suddenly say publicly possibilities open up."