However, when Emma-Jean discovers a nice classmate named Colleen crying in the school's girls' bathroom, she helps her friend tackle her problem with logic and common sense. While doing this reading, Tarshis decided to attempt writing a novel of her own, and Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell out of a Tree was born.Įmma-Jean is a seventh-grade pragmatist who views her illogical classmates like an anthropologist might: she holds herself aloof from them, perplexed by their behavior. In this new position, she realized that she needed to catch up on much of the fiction for that age group that she had missed as a child. As an adult, Tarshis took a job as the editor of Storyworks magazine, which is aimed at young readers. "I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school," she told an interviewer for the Barnes & Noble Web site. SIDELIGHTS:Īlthough Lauren Tarshis is the author of both nonfiction titles and a novel, she was not always a reader. Kate: The Katharine Hepburn Album (nonfiction), Perigee (New York, NY), 1993.Įmma-Jean Lazarus Fell out of a Tree (middle-grade novel), Dial (New York, NY), 2007. Taking Off: Extraordinary Ways to Spend Your First Year out of College (nonfiction), Fireside ( New York, NY), 1989. The Making of Ironweed (nonfiction), photographs by Claudio Edinger, introduction by William Kennedy, Penguin ( New York, NY), 1988. Born in Albuquerque, NM married children: Leo, Jeremy, Dylan, Valerie. So our story begins, in the girls' room, as two very different girls begin a journey that is sure to send one of them tumbling out of a tree. Until one afternoon, when she walks into the girls' room and discovers Colleen Pomerantz sobbing at the sink.Ĭolleen is one of those girls who cares a lot! About everything! And now the meanest girl in school is trying to steal her best friend, and the only one who seems to care is Emma-Jean Lazarus.
Emma-Jean has always considered it prudent to keep her distance, to observe from afar.
But that's okay, since Emma-Jean doesn't understand them either. Her fellow seventh graders don't understand her. MediaType Audiobook shortDescription Emma-Jean Lazarus is the smartest–and definitely the strangest–girl at William Gladstone Middle School. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages
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