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| Title | : | Milkweed |
| Author | : | Jerry Spinelli |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | September 13th 2005 by Laurel Leaf (first published September 9th 2003) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. World War II. Holocaust. Fiction. War |
Jerry Spinelli
Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 4.01 | 24638 Users | 2339 Reviews
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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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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| Original Title: | Milkweed |
| ISBN: | 0440420059 (ISBN13: 9780440420057) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Poland Warsaw(Poland) |
| Literary Awards: | Carolyn W. Field Award for Fiction (2003), Golden Kite Award for Fiction (2004) |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 24638 Users | 2339 ReviewsDiscuss About Books Milkweed
I would venture that this is a read alike for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Set in Poland during World War II Milkweed is told through the unique perspective of one of those lost-through-the-cracks kids.... Our MC - "Misha" for all intents and purposes - is a thief, a runner, an orphan, a gypsy with no memory of his life before the story begins. He steals food to survive and has zero awareness of what is going on in his little world outside of the speeding images that he runs past daily. Misha
He's running. That is the first thing he remembers. He doesn't remember why he is running or where he is running to, all he knows is running. He has no name, no home and no family. He is a gypsy, a thief, but still a boy. A boy who doesn't know who or what he is until his friend, Uri, tells him. He is told his name is Misha Pilsudski. He is a gypsy. He is not to look guilty. This story is about a young boy that finds himself in a small town that is under the Nazi power. He has no family or home,
Hmm, I don't know. I loved MOST of the book. I grew up trying to learn all I could about war history, so the experiences described in Milkweed were nothing I hadn't read about or seen on film before, but the story of life in Nazi-occupied Europe through the eyes of a child, who at first can't even understand what's going on, packs quite an emotional wallop. Spinelli's prose in this one contains little of the eloquent fluidity I remember so well from Stargirl; the style is choppier, more
Author - Jerry SpinelliThis is a young adult book - maybe even for middle schoolers.It takes place during WWII in Warsaw, Poland. A young boy is stealing food and is caught by another boy who lives with a group of children who steal food and live on the streets. This boy knows nothing about himself - not his name, not where he lives, not even his age. The author uses very simple language and sentence structure in the beginning of the book so that we are drawn into this child's state of being.His
It's taken me a little while to put into words a review for this book. My son and I have been studying WW2 and the Holocaust. We have read and watched numerous stories, fiction and non fiction pertaining to our unit study. This book is one of the absolute best. Don't get me wrong, the content is difficult, unfathomable and just downright hard to read but if we want to understand history, we can't sugar coat it. My son is 11 and became so deeply enthralled by this story that we ended up reading
Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli, is another disappointing addition to recent Holocaust fiction which has made its way into classrooms, displacing more worthwhile and significant works of fiction and non-fiction. Perhaps that makes me resent it a little more than it deserves. The author means well. The author tried. Nonetheless, the author does not fulfill his responsibility to his chosen setting, what for many people is a history they live in their memories, in familys memories, and in the memories
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