For Kids - Putting G-d on Your Guest List, 2nd Edition How to Claim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Bar or Bat Mitzvah By Jeffrey K. Salkin Jewish Lights Publishing: 2007 ISBN: 1580233082

Now updated and expanded, this book engages and inspires in a language young people can understand, to teach them the core spiritual values of Judaism. It explains the biblical origins and history of our ancestors' own rites of passage, and the development of the ceremony to our own day. It introduces kids to both traditional text and midrash to help them understand the real meanings behind the ceremony.

Along with completely updated resources, this new edition includes questions at the end of each chapter to engage kids and let them offer their own thoughts and a special section that helps parents and kids find places to perform acts of tzedakah to honor the event.