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Article: Hyperion Books.(You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah!)(Pond Scum)(If I Have A Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
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- Children's Bookwatch
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Hyperion Books
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www.hyperionteens.com
Fiona Rosenbloom's You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah! (0786856165, $15.99) is both hilarious and revealing, telling of one Stacy Friedman, getting ready for the highlight of her life, her bat mitzvah. She plans for success, friendships and romance, but when she struggles with her mother's idea of fashion, difficulty with the mitzvahs, and conflicts, her bat mitzvah begins to look like more of a disaster than a success. A wide audience, even non-Jewish readers, will appreciate Stacy's realistic dilemmas. Alan Silberberg's Pond Scum (0786856343, $15.99) tells of ...