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: Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree


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Binding: Kindle Edition
Format: Kindle Book
Label: Puffin
Manufacturer: Puffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
Publisher: Puffin
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Sales Rank: 10407
Studio: Puffin


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Product Description:
'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 don't understand her, but that's okay because Emma-Jean doesn't quite get them either. But one afternoon, all that changes when she sees Colleen Pomerantz crying in the girl'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.'



Customer Reviews
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
My daughter had to read it for a class reading. She read it 5 times because she loved it so much.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - For all you hyperintellectual girls....
... this one is for you. Ever feel like the girls around you live on some other planet? Do you yourself feel like an alien in your own environment? This book may give you hope that one day even you will feel at home in your own skin.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Emma-Jean Lazarus Made Me Fall Out of My Seat!
Emma-Jean Lazarus (what a delicious name!) is not quite like her seventh grade peers. While a keen observer of their behaviors and social interactions, she nonetheless remains a little aloof from them all. Highly literal, and almost painfully logical, Emma-Jean doesn't really attract the friendship of her peers either -- they think her just a tad weird and mostly remain indifferent to her. However, one day, Emma-Jean finds a fellow classmate crying in the bathroom, and Emma-Jean perceives (in the ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - fun book, might not be for all readers
This was a quick, easy read. And for the kids that would find its theme of friendship interesting, its a gem of a story. It may not be for all readers, Emma Jean is a compelling, but very different kind of main character.

Its well written without having to resort to cliche attitudes, expressions, or some of the other formulaic child meets friend, helps friend, gets into to trouble middle grade plots. (And for some middle grade readers, that might be too much of a step outside their ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Funny and Uplifting
This story begins Emma Jean Lazarus opens a door. Literally, it's the door to the girls' bathroom at school, where she finds Colleen Pomerantz (a kind, sensitive girl and not one of the usual 7th grade criers) sobbing over a problem with a friend. Figuratively, it's the door we all open when we make the sometimes scary decision to reach out to another human being. This is a big deal for all of us, but especially for Emma Jean, who's one of those brilliant, wise-beyond-her-years kids who seems to ... Read More




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