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Milkweed

By Jerry Spinelli

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| Audio Cassette | 9780807218587

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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 Continue

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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Critics

  • Of angels and oranges

    Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli 224pp, Orchard Books, £10.99 Do not be fooled into thinking that this is a book about the Holocaust. Yes, the story is set in Warsaw, where it begins on the streets in 1939 and proceeds into the ghetto, then along the railw ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Milkweed By Jerry Spinelli

    "Call me thief. Call me stupid. Call me Gypsy. Call me Jew. Call me one-eared Jack. I don't care," declares Misha, the narrator of Jerry Spinelli's wonderful new book, Milkweed. An orphan in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1939, Misha was a boy of the street ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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  • I actually listened to the audio version. I thought the narrator was ok, he actually is an actor on the television show Alias. I thought this was very well written. I enjoyed the perspective of a young innocent boy. SpoilerI liked that Spinelli followed through with the whole story, ending with Mish ... (continue)

    I actually listened to the audio version. I thought the narrator was ok, he actually is an actor on the television show Alias. I thought this was very well written. I enjoyed the perspective of a young innocent boy. SpoilerI liked that Spinelli followed through with the whole story, ending with Misha's later life after migrating to the U.S.

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