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      Milkweed

      by Jerry Spinelli
      Published
      Jan 2003
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
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      240
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      He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. 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, with tall, shiny jackboots 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 during World War II-and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young Holocaust orphan.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

      Age Level

      Young Adult / Teens

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