A review by pkadams
Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time by Lisa Yee

4.0

This book is the perfect fun summer read for kids! Stanford Wong loves basketball and hates school. As you can imagine this doesn't go over too well with his parents, especially his father who named him after his alma mater. After flunking 6th Grade English his middle school basketball career is in jeopardy just after he made the A team (varsity for middle school). What ensues is his summer that revolves around summer school. This book is engaging and has wonderful characters from Stanford's loving grandmother who has early-stage Alzheimer's to his tutor Millicent Min (Yee has written another book about this girl genius). Stanford goes to great lengths to keep his summer school secret from his basketball friends and the girl he is trying to impress. I highly recommend this and the other books by Yee for reluctant readers.