Milkweed
Author(s): Jerry Spinelli
"A stunning novel of the Holocaust from a Newbery Medalist"
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.
Product Information
JERRY SPINELLI is the author of many novels for young readers, including The Warden's Daughter; Stargirl; Love, Stargirl; Milkweed; Crash; Wringer; and Maniac Magee, winner of the Newbery Medal; along withKnots in My Yo-Yo String, the autobiography of his childhood. A graduate of Gettysburg College, he lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, poet and author Eileen Spinelli. From the Hardcover edition."
General Fields
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- : Hachette Children's Group
- : Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- : 0.181
- : 23 March 2010
- : 202mm X 131mm X 14mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jerry Spinelli
- : Paperback / softback
- : 2010
- : English
- : 813/.54
- : 208