Recipe for Disaster

This book is a must read for anyone grappling with their Jewish identity, children who have one Jewish and one non-Jewish parent, or anyone searching for the meaning behind becoming a Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Hannah and her brother Sam love baking all of the traditional Jewish desserts with their Grandma......more

This review and many more can be found on my blog: Feed Your Fiction Addiction Recipe for Disaster is actually a mostly-prose novel with some poetry and recipes mixed in (often the poems are also in the form of recipes). The result meant that it was a bit hard to judge next to the other Cybils verse......more

I found this book disappointing. I wasn't sure what I was expecting but I thought all the characters, save maybe Grandma Mimi, had very narrow perspectives on things. It really bothered me when Hannah's mom declares she cannot have a Bat Mitzvah because her mother does not practice Judaism and she d......more

This was so cute. It's a middle grade own voices Jewish book that is centered around a almost 13-year-old who has one Jewish parent and one Catholic parent. Hannah and her family do not practice Judaism, except for her grandma. Her mother has some extreme views about the religion and is estranged fr......more

Twelve-year-old Hannah considers herself Jew... ish. But her best friend has a fabulous Bat Mitzvah, Hannah decides that she wants a Bat Mitzvah of her own. Things are more complicated than Hannah realizes--not only is it a Bat Mitzvah a lot of work, she meets resistance within her family, as her mo......more