Interest Level:
6-8
Lexile Framework:
650L
Grade Level Equivalent:
5.2
Guided Reading Level:
S
Age:
10-13
Genre:
Comedy and Humor, Realistic Fiction
Subject:
Pride and Self-Esteem, Basketball, Friends and Friendship, Middle School, Chinese American
View the Video Read-Aloud with Lisa Yee
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.







