![]() It's not much of a plot, and it does fall prey to the typical middle school stereotypes (why do all the popular girls have to be mean?). Which sets off a chain of events, including Emma-Jean getting ambitious enough to (try and) fix other problems, that eventually lead to Emma-Jean interacting (at least a little bit) more with her peers. ![]() Emma-Jean realizes that she can fix it, and so. Colleen has a problem: the popular, yet mean Laura is trying to undercut Colleen's friendship with Kaitlin. That is, until one day she stumbles upon Colleen crying in the bathroom. She's highly logical, rational and prefers to just observe her classmates rather than actually participate in the drama. That's the best way to describe both Emma-Jean Lazarus and this book. Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! OctoEmma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Treeįirst sentence: "Emma-Jean Lazarus knew very well that a few of the seventh-grade girls at William Gladstone Middle School were criers." It's a complicated puzzle, but if anyone can solve it, Emma-Jean can. Then Colleen Pomerantz unexpectedly confides in her about a mean girl who is stealing her best friend. This means staying clear of her unpredictable and unhygienic fellow seventh-graders. ![]() Her painstaking research had given her a much clearer understanding of their complex emotional lives and surprising sensitivities." A mathematician's daughter, Emma-Jean leads a rational life. Emma-Jean had observed her peers closely over the years. ![]()
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