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He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham.

He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He’s a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he’s a boy who realizes it’s safest of all to be nobody.

Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable—Nazi-occupied Warsaw of World War II—and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young orphan.


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Milkweed: Surviving the Jackboots in Warsaw

Date of Review:  Dec 17, 2007
The Bottom Line: This story of the occupation of Warsaw during World War II is told from an interesting point of view - a simple young street urchin. Great character development.
Review: Milkweeds are hardy plants, surviving through many seasons, nurturing beautiful creatures of the world (notably the Monarch butterfly). It's not hard to figure out why award-winning author Jerry Spinelli named his novel Milkweed.

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Authors Jerry Spinelli
Fiction Genre History • Juvenile Fiction
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  Kirkus: "Spinelli's choice of narrator is a masterstroke. Because Misha has no sense of anything except his own immediate needs and desires, he has no urge to explain the bizarre and fundamentally irrational events that befall him. He simply reports graphically, almost clinically, on the slow devastation of the Jews of Warsaw and on the changes in his own relationships, to friends and the world, brought about by the experiences. His own psychological growth is almost lost on the reader until a coda, that still makes no attempt to explain, finally finds him at peace. Stunning."

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  Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc (September 01, 2003)
Measurements: 8.5"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1"(d), 0.85 lbs.
ISBN: 9780375813740
 
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