I was really looking forward to You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mizvah by Rosenbloom. The opening pages, a letter to god from Stacy, the main character had me in stitches, but as I read on I was a bit disappointed. The characters were rather shallow and the plot a little too predictable. My students seem to love this book, so maybe my expectations were too high, but characters like Adam Goldfarb (Stacy’s crush) were too cliché and (his dialogue in particular) unbelievable for me. The plot was fun: Stacy’s best friend Lydia kissed Stacy’s crush prompting the title to be directed at Lydia. In addition Stacy learns the true meaning of mizvahs through the guidance of one of my favorite characters, Rabbi Sherwin, but other than that, I was unimpressed.

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