Bibliograph

Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli

Type

Label

Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli

Language

eng

resource.accompanyingMatter

technical information on music

Intended audience

510, Lexile3.6, ATOS Level

resource.interestGradeLevel

LG/Lower grades (K-3rd)

Main title

Milkweed

Oclc number

504

resource.readingGradeLevel

Text Difficulty 1 - Text Difficulty 2

Responsibility statement

Jerry Spinelli

Summary

A stunning novel of the Holocaust from Newbery Medalist , Jerry Spinelli. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday , coming August 2021. 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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