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Nonfiction Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah: Planning the Perfect Day Amy Nebens; Ellen Silverman and David Lewis Sternfeld, illus.
Visual Arts Bar Mitzvah Disco: The Music May Have Stopped, But the Party’s Never Over Roger Bennett, Nick Kroll, Jules Shell
Nonfiction Sex, God, Christmas and Jews: Intimate Emails About Faith and Life Challenges Gil Mann
Nonfiction Taking the Plunge: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to the Mikveh Miriam C. Berkowitz
Children’s Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah: The Ceremony, the Party, and How the Day Came to Be Bert Metter; Joan Reilly, illus.
Nonfiction Celebrating the Jewish Year: Winter Holidays — Hanukkah, Tu B’Shevat, Purim Paul Steinberg; Janet Greenstein Potter, ed.