![]() Interspersed with these chapters are scenes from the bat mitzvah day itself, told through comic-like illustrations of Brianna panicking about forgetting her Hebrew and screwing up her speech. From there, narrator Brianna moves eight months back in time and chronicles her harrowing friendship struggles, overwhelming bat mitzvah preparations, and bickering divorced parents, all leading up to that moment behind the curtain. Brianna’s bat mitzvah ceremony is about to begin. ![]() She’s so anxious, in fact, that she imagines herself tied to railroad tracks as a train approaches. The book opens with a prologue: 13-year-old Brianna nervously steps out from behind a curtain for some kind of performance. ![]() ![]() Becoming Brianna is the fourth book in author/illustrator Terri Libenson’s Emmie & Friends series and the first book of the series to focus solely on a Jewish main character. ![]()
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