Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time

"WE INTERRUPT YOUR LIVES TO ANNOUNCE STANFORD WONG HAS FLUNKED SIXTH GRADE!!!"

All right, so maybe there hasn't been an announcement like that. But that's the way it feels to STANFORD. He's used to being a HERO on the basketball court, where he's the first sixth-grader ever to make the A-TEAM, and to just getting by in class.

But when he flunks English—FLUNKS IT BIG-TIME—and learns he'll have to trade basketball camp for summer school, Stanford freaks out. His FRIENDS can't know or they'll dump him. His DAD has to know and it's awful. The beautiful EMILY EBERS will never like him if he's stupid. And when his mom hires a tutor for him—MILLICENT MIN, genius, jerk, and poster girl for Chinese geekdom—Stanford knows it's happened: HIS LIFE IS OFFICIALLY OVER.