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Twelve-year-old Emma-Jean Lazarus isn't like the other seventh-graders at William Gladstone Middle School. She is brilliant and logical and curious about the world. She's also strange. Extremely strange, in the best sense of the word. The other seventh-graders don't understand Emma-Jean. But that's okay since Emma-Jean doesn't understand them either. Their behavior is so illogical. And thus their lives are extremely messy. Emma-Jean dislikes disorder of any kind, and has always considered it prudent to keep her distance from her peers, to observe from afar. Until one day when she walks into the girls' room at school and finds Colleen Pomerantz sobbing at the sink. Colleen is nothing like Emma-Jean. She's one of those girls who cares about everything and everyone--sometimes it's too much! She's always wondering if someone is mad at her, or if she has egg salad stuck in her braces, or if her new sneakers make her look like a complete dork. Mainly Colleen wonders why people just can't ask nicer. And now Colleen is sure that the meanest girl in school is trying to steal her best friend. What happens when these two girls meet? What happens when Emma-Jean tries to solve Colleen's problem using the awesome powers of logic she learned from her mathematician father and his hero, the legendary French logician Jules Henri Poincare? Emma-Jean's life gets messy, that's for sure. Everything comes crashing down, including Emma-Jean herself. But maybe, in the end, it's all worth it....
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Emma-Jean is experiencing something new and unsettling, but not entirely unpleasant. It’s a fluttering in her heart when she imagines herself asking Will to the seventh-grade dance. Her best friend Colleen is worried that Will might laugh if Emma-Jean invites him. After all, Emma-Jean is a different kind of girl—certainly different from queen-bee Laura, who has always made it clear that Will is hers. Maybe Colleen can distract Emma- Jean from this risky plan by recruiting her for a top-secret investigation. You see, Colleen has an anonymous admirer, and if Emma-Jean can help her figure out who he is, then Colleen could ask him to the dance. Even more endearing and genuine than its predecessor, this companion to the award-winning Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree steals your heart and inspires a smile that lasts as long as the novel itself. . . and longer....
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Love is in the air at William Gladstone Middle School, and even super-rational Emma-Jean Lazarus is carried away. Her heart flutters in the most peculiar manner whenever she sees Will Keeler. Does this mean that she should invite Will to the upcoming seventh-grade dance? Emma-Jean’s new friends say no, but how can they be sure?
And what about the mysterious note that Colleen has discovered in her locker? Finally Colleen has a boy who likes her! Just thinking about him makes Colleen feel brave and strong. And she is convinced that her genius friend Emma-Jean will find out who it is so Colleen can ask him to the dance.
But as Emma-Jean knows, nothing is simple in the seventh-grade wing, where misunderstandings lead to disaster. And this latest adventure takes Emma-Jean into the most mysterious and irrational place of all: her own heart....
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From a debut author comes a heart-warming novel about a unique girl and her seventhgrade experiences. Emma-Jean Lazarus is the smartest and strangest girl at William Gladstone Middle School. Her classmates donÂ’t understand her, but thatÂ’s okay because Emma-Jean doesnÂ’t quite get them either. But one afternoon, all that changes when she sees Colleen Pomerantz crying in the girlÂ’s room. It is through Colleen that Emma-Jean gets a glimpse into what it is really like to be a seventh grader. And what she finds will send her tumbling out of a tree and questioning why she ever got involved in the first place....
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From a debut author comes a heart-warming novel about a unique girl and her seventhgrade experiences. Emma-Jean Lazarus is the smartest and strangest girl at William Gladstone Middle School. Her classmates donÂ’t understand her, but thatÂ’s okay because Emma-Jean doesnÂ’t quite get them either. But one afternoon, all that changes when she sees Colleen Pomerantz crying in the girlÂ’s room. It is through Colleen that Emma-Jean gets a glimpse into what it is really like to be a seventh grader. And what she finds will send her tumbling out of a tree and questioning why she ever got involved in the first place....
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Emma-Jean Lazarus is the smartest–and definitely the strangest–girl at William Gladstone Middle School. Her fellow seventh graders don’t understand her. But that’s okay, since Emma-Jean doesn’t understand them either. Emma-Jean has always considered it prudent to keep her distance, to observe from afar. Until one afternoon, when she walks into the girls’ room and discovers Colleen Pomerantz sobbing at the sink. Colleen is one of those girls who cares a lot! About everything! And now the meanest girl in school is trying to steal her best friend, and the only one who seems to care is Emma-Jean Lazarus. So our story begins, in the girls’ room, as two very different girls begin a journey that is sure to send one of them tumbling out of a tree . . ....
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