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Milkweed

  • Jerry Spinelli

3.89

9 ratings

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.

Genres

  • Child and youth fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • Jews, fiction
  • Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction
  • World war, 1939-1945, fiction
  • Jews
  • Jews in fiction
  • Juvenile fiction
  • World War, 1939-1945 in fiction
  • Boys in fiction
  • Fiction
  • Boys
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Reading Level-Grade 7
  • Reading Level-Grade 6
  • Reading Level-Grade 8
  • Large type books
  • Street children
  • History
  • Children
  • Orphans
  • Jewish fiction
  • Nazis
  • Jewish Ghettoes
  • Identity
  • Boys, fiction
  • Warsaw (poland), fiction
  • Muchachos
  • Novela
  • Judíos
  • Guerra muncial, 1939-1945
  • Holocausto judío (1939-1945)
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About the author

  • Jerry Spinelli

    born 1941

    4.09

    144 ratings · 59 works

Editions

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    Orchard

    2003

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    Listening Library

    2006

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    Orchard Books

    2003

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    EntreLibros

    2004

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Ember

2011

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    Di 1 ban

    Hunan wen yi chu ban she

    2011

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    Knopf Books for Young Readers

    September 9, 2003

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    1 edition

    Thorndike Press

    December 16, 2003

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    1st ed.

    Alfred A. Knopf

    2003

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    Unabridged edition

    Listening Library (Audio)

    September 9, 2003

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    Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media

    September 2005

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    1st ed.

    Alfred A. Knopf

    2003

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    Thorndike Press

    2004

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    Orchard Books

    2003

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    1. basım.

    Klan Yayınları

    2004

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    Scholastic

    2003-01-01

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    Uri Kyoyuk

    2009

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    Listening Library

    January 2006

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    Random House Children's Books

    2003

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    Chu ban

    Gao bao guo ji you xian gong si Taiwan fen gong si

    2015

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    Laurel Leaf

    September 13, 2005

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    Scholatic paperback ed.

    Scholastic

    2005

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    Listening Library

    January 2003

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    Orchard Books

    November 6, 2003