

As many of us do with difficult things, she leaves the speech to the last minute. So now and in a rather short time she has to learn learn to speak Hebrew, write a speech and deliver it to an audience in Hebrew! That’s enough to make the most outgoing person tremble. Unselfishly Brianna understands that this is very important to her mother and agrees even though she has a lot of anxiety about being the center of attention. The family is not terribly religious (Brianna's father is not Jewish), and her parents can barely afford such a celebration. After being badgered by her mother, Brianna has finally and reluctantly, given in to her mother's desire for her to have a significant bat mitzvah celebration. Brianna is now dealing with her parents divorce. The setting is the same school and includes characters from previous books. This is not the first Brianna book but it can be read alone. Becoming Brianna is a notebook novel about her experiences with an upcoming Bat Mitzvah.
