![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. For another book about a child grappling with religious affiliation, suggest Ilene Cooper’s Sam I Am (2004). This quick read will be a hit with preteens contemplating their own identities. Readers will identify with Caroline and her preoccupations and, although Baskin doesn’t really touch upon the realities of preparing for a bat mitzvah, the solution to Caroline’s quandary (because her mother is Jewish she automatically becomes a bat mitzvah when she turns 12-even without a ceremony) makes an apt conclusion for the story. Spanning the fall of seventh grade, Caroline recounts the minutiae of her upper-middle-class suburban life (focusing on friendships, boys, misunderstandings, and cliques), with frequent flashbacks to memories of Nana. In her first YA novel, Baskins ( The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah ) portrait of a. At the same time, her best friend, Rachel, is preparing for her bat mitzvah, prompting Caroline to question her own religious identity and wonder if she should request her own coming-of-age ceremony. Candlewick, 16.99 (201pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-3623-4. ![]() Caroline, who has been raised in a nonreligious household by her Jewish mom and non-Jewish dad, inherits a Star of David necklace when her beloved Nana dies. Nora Raleigh Baskin is the ALA Schneider Family Book Awardwinning author of Anything But Typical. ![]()
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