As if middle school weren’t complicated enough, Caroline Hoffman, best friend to Rachel Miller (they were “separated at birth”) and the sometimes shy girl from an interfaith family, is confused. In the novel The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah by Nora Raleigh Baskin, Caroline’s unsolved mysteries include the meaning of her nana’s necklace, how Jewish is too Jewish and what is a knish, anyway? When Caroline’s family hardly acknowledges religion in general, the perplexed girl does not know where to turn.