books by Jules Shell

books by Jules Shell

books:

Jules Shell

Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies

Roger Bennett, Jules Shell

Crown, 2008

Makes me wish I was in camp right now!
Having just sent my oldest child off to her first year of sleepaway camp, it was very tempting to stow away on the bus and relive my camp experiences of the 1970s. But with this book, I don't have to, and it's a whole lot cheaper than actually going to sleepaway camp. ...

Bar Mitzvah Disco: The Music May Have Stopped, but the Party's Never Over

Roger Bennett, Nick Kroll, ...

Crown, 2005

fantastic
This book is awesome - it perfectly captures this bizarre subculture of over-the-top celebrations of puberty among Jews in the 1980s, primarily in the New York metro area. If you are one of the chosen people that celebrated Bar and Bat Mitzvahs during that time, you ...