Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time

  “Emily! EMILY LAURA EBERS, you come back right now….”

  I didn’t wait to hear what Alice had to say. I wish you were with me. Or I wish I were wherever you are. I wish I were anywhere but here.

  Love,

  Emily

  LISA YEE’s award-winning novels include Millicent Min, Girl Genius; Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time (an ALA Notable Book); So Totally Emily Ebers; Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally); Bobby the Brave (Sometimes); Warp Speed; Absolutely Maybe; and The Kidney Hypothetical. Please visit her website at www.lisayee.com.

  Text copyright © 2005 by Lisa Yee.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Yee, Lisa.

  Stanford Wong flunks big-time / by Lisa Yee.—1st ed. p. cm.

  Summary: After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.

  ISBN 0-439-62247-6

  [1. Basketball — Fiction. 2. Elementary schools — Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction. 4. Friendship — Fiction. 5. Chinese-Americans — Fiction. 6. Family life — Fiction. 7. Fathers and sons — Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.Y3638Sta 2005 [Fic] — dc22 2005001033

  First edition, October 2005

  Cover photograph copyright © 2005 by James Levin / Studio 10

  Cover image and design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

  e-ISBN 978-0-545-28150-8

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