Milkweed
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0439682363
ISBN 13
9780439682367
Category
Fiction: Historical Events
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Scholastic Inc., United States
Pages
208
Abstract
Newberry Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable--Nazi-occupied Warsaw--and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young orphan.
Description
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' a boy who steals food for himself and the orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels.
He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi someday, 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.
He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He' a boy who steals food for himself and the orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels.
He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi someday, 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.
Number of Copies
1
