This book gives you as much information as you ever need to know about your upcoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah. If you are anxious about what needs to get done and how, you'll find helpful information including budget ideas, timelines and how to make the day less of a party and more of a celebration of something meaningful. The author has produced both a Bar and Bat Mitzvah herself and lived to tell about it. She has also written for the New York Times, Scholastic Magazine and Women's World. Don't try it without her.