A basketball star, Stanford finds himself at odds at having to keep his summer school secret from his friends and teammates along with hiding the fact he's being tutored by the infamous Millicent Min.

He's going to spend every day at the park with his best friends (Stretch, Gus, Tico, and Digger) and he's going to a basketball camp where he'll learn from the pros.

Now Stanford must trade basketball camp for summer school - and as if this weren't bad enough, his mom hired a tutor for him: his arch-enemy Millicent Min.

A child genius, Millicent Min is a senior in high school at age eleven, not to mention a world-class jerk.

At the end of the story, Stanford's father reveals that he has been working so incredibly hard all the time because he was hoping for a promotion - which his boss granted him.

According to Loretta Gaffney, who reviewed Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time for The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, "Yee directly challenges stereotypes not only about Asian Americans but about boys and girls as well".

[4] Conversely, according to Kirkus Reviews, while Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time is "laced with humor", the protagonist's "voice is more regular" than Millicent's, meaning the novel "lack[s] the hilarious perspective of his socially clueless but intellectually gifted contemporary".