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Milkweed (Black Apples)

by Jerry Spinelli

First Published

2003

Subjects

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)

Description

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.

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