Jason lives in California with his wife and daughter. At his bar mitzvah he sang a song he had written about breaking up with his girlfriend, even though he had not at that time ever had a girlfriend. Biography: Jason Robert Brown is the Tony Award-winning lyricist and composer of Parade, The Last Five Years, and Songs for a New World as well as the musical 13, which he collaborated on with Dan Elish.Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc.Jason Robert Brown will be returning to compose new music for the show, and the cast includes Rhea Perlman, Josh Peck, Debra Messing, and Peter Hermann. Netflix has announced an adaptation of the Broadway musical that inspired 13: A Novel.

With relatable humor and accessible language, and at a consumable length, this book is perfect for all tweens and especially boys looking for a relatable read. While he struggles to fit in with the popular boys at school, he eventually learns that being cool is not as important as being a good friend-and a good person. In this story of acceptance and friendship, Evan prepares for his bar mitzvah, grapples with his father's affair, and learns from his rabbi, all the while presented with various images of what it means to be a man. He can pretend to be like the cool kids he's sure he can.īut if you spend all your time pretending to be someone else, who do you become? Evan doesn't want to be laughed at for being different. Because this is his chance to get in with the popular kids-the cool football players and pretty cheerleaders.īut it's the weird kids who welcome him, like his nerdy neighbor Patrice and Archie, whose crutches and muscular dystrophy make him an easy target for bullying. But wondering what it means to become a man is the least of Evan's problems.Īfter being uprooted right before his thirteen birthday from New York City to Appleton, Indiana, he's more focused on using this fresh start to find the right friends to invite to his bar mitzvah. Soon to be a movie-musical streaming on Netflix!Įvan didn't expect relevant life advice from Rabbi Weiner, who looks so old that he must have gone to yeshiva with Moses. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The paperback edition of the novel based on the groundbreaking musical by Jason Robert Brown and Dan Elish, 13, a story about friendship, fitting in, and what it means to turn thirteen.

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