Bibliograph

Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli

Type

Label

Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

510L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Milkweed

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

234109153

Responsibility statement

Jerry Spinelli

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 3.6, 7, 7, 71828

Summary

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

Target audience

adolescent

Classification