Ike Greenberg and his friends appear as extras in a D. W. Griffith movie and surprise their families.

Ike is very skeptical when his mother promises that he will have seven surprises in the month before his Bar Mitzvah, especially, with his father still hospital

Ziggie the bully poses a problem for Ike at home as well as at school.

Out of his years of experience in working with children, Zingher identifies some of the powerful and evocative themes of childhood, and explores why these touch