That's Emma-Jean Lazarus, the smartest and definitely the strangest girl at William Gladstone Middle School. The kids at school don't understand her. But that all changes when she discovers Colleen Pomerantz sobbing in the girl's room. What happens when Emma-Jean decides to use her powers of logic to solve Colleen's problem? Emma-Jean's life gets messy, that's for sure, as she finds herself tumbling out of her well-ordered world and into the strangest place of all - her own heart.