Logical minded Emma-Jean has never minded not fitting in with her classmates in 7th grade, but when Colleen Pomerantz is crying in the bathroom one day at school, she finds that getting involved with other people's lives is even messier and more complicated than she had thought.
This was pretty good, but the contrast between Emma, Colleen, and villainess Laura was too much for me. Maybe kids do want things to be black and white, but it seems like pandering, a bit. Also, Colleen's focus on the importance of 'niceness' above all else frustrated me and made me a bit angry- girls have been told to 'be nice' for so long that to see a 2007 kid's book reinforcing this damaging idea was upsetting.
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