Emma Jean Lazarus is a lovable oddball who thinks she can use logic to solve the "messy" everyday problems of her seventh grade peers. It's easy—she just follows the example of her late father, a brilliant mathematician. Of course, the more Emma Jean gets involved, the messier her own life gets. Suddenly she's no longer the person standing on the outside of all social interactions. And that seems like a good thing, until Emma Jean's involvement lands her at the bottom of a tree, wondering why she ever got involved in the first place.
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Seventh-grader Emma-Jean has always maintained an emotional distance from the messy life around her. In fact, she behaves like a scientist observing creatures under a microscope. So when she's asked for help in combating one of her school's mean girls, Emma-Jean attacks the problem in her usual logical fashion. Narrating from the alternating perspectives of aloof Emma-Jean and kind, vulnerable Colleen, who wants only to be popular, Mamie Gummer skillfully distinguishes the diverse cast that makes up Emma-Jean's world. Gummer has obviously inherited a facility for accents from her mother, Meryl Streep. She gives each character a subtly distinct voice while sustaining the detachment that is quintessential Emma-Jean. S.G. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
by Lauren Tarshis
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