Lila: Eight to Thirteen.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)(Children's Review)

Lila: Eight to Thirteen. videocassette. color 54 min. Filmakers Library. 2004. $250 (Rental: $75).

Gr 10 Up--Filmmaker Diane Brown spent six years crafting a thoughtful and poignant film documenting one girl's transition from preadolescent to young woman. Brown followed New Yorker Lila Babb from her eighth birthday to her bat mitzvah at age thirteen, capturing on film momentous occasions. We observe Lila and her family in their Manhattan apartment and in Upper Delaware Valley. Brown shows us an intimate portrait of a girl on the cusp, changing from a fresh faced little girl playing chase with little boys to a young woman with curves whose once easy relationships with …