works Rumspringa is mentioned in the standard works about the Amish, like Hostettler’s Amish Society, the works of Donald Kraybill, An Amish Paradox by Hurst and McConell and others, but there is only one scholarly book about it: Richard A. Stevick: Growing up Amish: The Teenage Years, Baltimore, 2007. There is also one documentary book: Tom Shachtman: Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish, New York, 2006. Devil's Playground (2002) was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary and for three documentary Emmy Awards—Best Documentary, Editing, and Direction. Spin-offs of the film include a book of transcribed interviews, titled Rumspringa: To Be Or Not To Be Amish, and a UPN reality television series, Amish in the City. Fiction Levi Miller's 1989 novel Ben's Wayne describes the rumspringa of an 18-year-old Amish youth in Holmes County, Ohio, during the fall of 1960. According to Richard A. Stevick, the novel is a realistic portrayal of the rumspringa of that time. Biographies Rumspringa is also mentioned in several biographies of ex-Amish like e.g. Ira Wagler's Growing up Amish. Other There are several books in the literary genre Amish romance who deal with rumspringa, but mostly with no gain in knowledge about the subject. Levi Miller's novel Ben's Wayne is an exception, since it is a realistic portray of rumspringa in 1960. Levi Miller: Ben's Wayne, Intercourse, PA, 1989. In popular culture Amish teens throw a wild party which includes Fall Out Boy in the film Sex Drive. A season 6 episode of the sitcom New Girl entitled “Rumspringa” features three of the main characters going on a trip which they refer to as a rumspringa. A season 6 episode of the Canadian sitcom Letterkenny entitled "Dyck's Slip Out" features two characters who go missing on their rumspringa. A season 5 episode of the series Bones features the main characters trying to solve the murder of an Amish teen who was on his rumspringa. A season 5 episode of the drama Cold Case entitled "Running Around" features the main characters trying to solve the murder of an Amish teen who was on her rumspringa. A Netflix movie called Rumspringa was released in 2022 and features the experiences of a young Amish on Rumspringa in Berlin. Episode 9, Season 10 of E.R titled “Missing” has as its central storyline 2 Amish teenagers, involved in a car collision whilst exploring Chicago. They both