Milkweed - Jerry Spinelli

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

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.