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About the B'Nai Bagels

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This is a touching and loving portrayal of a Jewish kid who has to put up with an over-achieving older brother, his best friend moving away, and -- horror of horrors -- his mother becoming his baseball team's manager. While he prepares for his Bar Mitzvah, he is faced with several challenges and choices, which -- though minor in the scheme of things -- help him learn about himself and what it means to become an adult. The story is told with gentle and self-deprecating humor. I first read this book when I was 10, I read it most recently when I was 39, and I have given it to my 10 year-old daughter.

If your child is a future fan of Neil Simon's plays, get them About the B'nai Bagels as soon as possible.

This is a story that grows on you a lot. I first read it when I was ten, and thought it quite dumb at the time. But there's a lot of life in there.

It was years later when I saw a presentation of Brighton Beach Memoirs. It dealt with the same issues as B'nai Bagels: a pubescent kid who goes through puberty.

While your average fourth or fifth grader may wish to pursue an adventure in Donkey Kong rather than reading, the book is short enough not to interrupt their busy schedule.

Trust me, when he/she gets to be an old college kid, you'll be glad B'nai bagels was one of the old book reports.

Mark Seltzer is a twelve year old boy who is going through preparing for his Bar Mitzvah and playing on his mom's baseball team. Mark loves playing baseball, but he has a hard time in Hebrew school and his social life because he has to worry about so many things. I liked this book because it show what hardships Mark has to overcome in preparing for his Bar Mitzvah and still have a fun time. I also liked this book because it had a lot of baseball in it and I love baseball.

Just finished reading this to my 8-year old son, and I enjoyed it as much as he did. Ethical questions are settled as the main character learns more about life. At first his family seems silly but over time we gain respect for their wisdom and caring. The ending is surprising, with ethics and friendship winning out. I will look out for other books by this author.

I would give this book About the B'nai Bages four out of five stars. It was really interesting. I never wanted to put the book down. I really liked this book. I think I liked this book because I like sports. I think this book is a lot like Bearstone. It teaches you to never let anything friendship get in the way of your friendship. It also reminds me of Outsiders because they all stick together. The gang in the Outsiders knows that friendship is the most important, but it takes Mark a while to realize that friends are the most important thing. I would recommend this book to teenagers who like to read, because it shows the meaning of friendship

This was a pretty good book. The main idea of the story is baseball and being a jewish boy. It is hard though, for somebody who does not know much about baseball to read this book. E.L. Konigsburg did a great job tying in the part about being a jewish boy preparing for his bar mitzvah and being on a baseball team. Over all, it was a pretty good book.

The book wasn' t very good. It wasn't very well writen either. The book is about a jewish boy named Mark who is going to have his Bar Mitzvah. He plays baseball for his temple league and he is on the B'nai B'riths, but they call their team the B'nai Bagels. His mother was the manager of the team, and his brother was the coach. Mark's best friend named Hersch had moved away before the book started. He really only moved far enough away to have to go to a different regular school, but was still on Mark's baseball team, and went to his hebrew school. There were a couple good parts, but nothing was more than a little interesting. Most of the book was boring and just his average life.

Jewish religious practice and littleleague baseball are not major league (poor pun) items in Australia. Discovering more about these elements attracted me to this book as I have never read any works by Konigsburg before. It is the tale of a young boy (Mark) preparing for his "coming of age ceremony" and his love of baseball. His brother(Spencer) almost made the state championship as player in the B'Nai Team. We witness the inner turmoil of Mark as his mother becomes the team manager and his brother becomes the team coach and on top of that he must complete his Hebrew studies. It is a terrific story about little league basebase and growing up in a loving, caring, modern jewish family, I only wish there was a little more description about the baseball games played by the B'Nai Bagels.