After returning from summer camp, where they learned all about being cool, eighth-graders Stacy and Lydia are excited to start school and become popular, but are surprised to learn that their friend Kelly is the one who is accepted into the "in crowd" and they are the only two students not invited to a bar miztvah--which they intend to crash.
While celebrating her brother's Bar Mitzvah on Coney Island, nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin disobeys by going off on her own, leaving her cousin Ana, a recent immigrant, alone.
Isaac is struggling to prepare for his Bar Mitzvah when his older brother Josh, a self-proclaimed "Super Jew" and undefeated wrestler, forces him into a quest to become a man by shooting a gun, riding a motorcycle, falling in love, and more.
After returning from summer camp, where they learned all about being cool, eighth-graders Stacy and Lydia are excited to start school and become popular, but are surprised to learn that their friend Kelly is the one who is accepted into the "in crowd" and they are the only two students not invited to a bar miztvah--which they intend to crash.
Almost thirteen-year-old Evan Goldman learns what it means to be a man when his parents separate and he and his mother move from New York City to Appleton, Indiana, right before his bar mitzvah.
At the age of thirteen a Jewish boy "becomes a man" and takes part in a ceremony called bar mitzvah. The historical background, description of the ceromony, and stories from real bar mitzvahs are included.
