Emma-Jean Lazarus is a 7th grader at William Gladstone Middle School. Everyone thinks she is strange, but Emma-Jean doesn't seem to care. She is much more concerned about practical & logical things. Emma-Jean's heroes are her father, Eugene, a college mathematics professor who died two years earlier, and the French mathematician, Jules Henri Poincare, who was also her father's hero.
One afternoon while she is at school, Emma-Jean finds Colleen Pomerantz crying in the girl's bathroom and decides that she can use her logical reasoning skills to solve Colleen's problem. She forges a document to help her classmate and finds herself in big trouble. Can she undo the mess she created?
Date read: 6/25/2009
ISBN-10: 0142411507
ISBN-13: 9780142411506
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