Book
Milkweed : a novel / Jerry Spinelli.
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. 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780439676977
- ISBN: 0439676975
- ISBN: 9780439682367
- ISBN: 0439682363
- Physical Description: 208 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Scholastic, [2004], ©2003.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. Jewish fiction. |
