The Jake Show

Hmmm. Well. Here’s the thing. I didn’t LOVE this book. However, I did choose it for our middle grade book club because 1. It’s got a main character who is a cis-Jewish-boy, 2. It will engage us in conversations about different ways of being Jewish, 3. It also has a queer character, 4. It raises some......more

This year, I was also gifted The Jake Show by Joshua Levy! The book was published by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishing (harpercollins.com). Joshua is Jewish Florida native who has written several middle grade books. Jake is a TV-loving kid who is being pulled between two......more

Alright, so this was pretty decent. Definitely not Joshua S. Levy’s finest, but it was still alright. 3.5 stars. I definitely feel like the book was a bit confusing layout-wise. The way that Jake told you about himself was hard to put together because of the way it was written. I also think that the......more

Jake is being torn apart by his divorced parents. Both are Jewish, however since the divorce his mother has turned much more religiously observant while his father observes next to nothing. They each want Jake to be like them, switching him from school to school with different ideologies. When Jake......more

Welcome to the wacky and warm-hearted world of Jake (aka Jacob, aka Yaakov). Torn between his divorced parents and their plans for him, TV-obsessed Jake sometimes retreats into an imaginary TV show of his own: "I was a CHARACTER, not a person. And only people have choices." There are many literally......more