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Emma-Jean Lazarus is different from the other girls in her 7th grade class. She’s very intelligent but not very tuned in about how to be socially with other students. To her fellow students Emma-Jean is just strange.

She still misses her father who was killed in a car accident 2 years ago. He was a professor of mathematics and from him Emma-Jean learned to be very logical and objective about everyday life happenings, which helps her to remain involved and appear not to care. But then one day she overhears her friend Colleen crying in the school bathroom and uses her logic, and some computer skills, to help Colleen with her problem. Her apparent success there leads her to look for creative ways to solve other peoples’ problems. But then her attempt to help Colleen blows up and she ends up with very popular Laura Gilroy very angry at both Colleen and Emma-Jean and out for revenge! What will happen now?

I liked this book because for once the main character, Emma-Jean, while experiencing some difficult social situations in school, has some caring and decent adults in her life to help her along the way. Emma-Jean would be a fun student to have in school, as long as she works on her problem-solving strategies!

Read this book and see how Emma-Jean finds out that getting involved with people her own age can really turn out okay.