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Summary: Another classic from Spinelli!
Review: Milkweed is about Misha, an orphan living on the streets of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. The whole story is through his humble eyes as he steals, befriends a group of boys and gets a family. How he always escapes the fearful Flops and Jackboots. How he gets his ear shot. How every night, he enters homes and shops and innocently steals food. How he is sadly separated from his "sister" finally one day. This enchanting story weaves to what happens after the holocaust as well. Milkweed has fascinating details from the Holocaust and Misha's life is described brilliantly. You feel as though you are right there, next to Misha, running beside him as he escapes from the Jackboots, crawling behind him through the two-brick hole in the wall, from beginning to end. The characterizing is done very vividly; you can visualize every character instantly! The style of writing is also so unique and captivating! Once you start this book, it's just too hard to put it down! Milkweed is another classic from the great author of Crash, Loser, Maniac Magee and Stargirl. Two thumbs up!
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Summary: In A Dark Time An Unlikely Hereo
Review: Milkweed tells the story of an young male orphan and his trials in trying to survive in the horrible days of World War II and the Nazi invasion of Poland. It is dark, but like all of Spinelli's work it is full of the author's generous heart and thus he makes one cry. It is about doing the right thing under tremendous hardship. It is about human weakness and human strength. It is about second and third changes, and its about the miracle of a human heart that stays true - an angel's light in a world too often engulfed in darkness.
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Summary: Milkweed- An exceptional novel
Review: Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli, was an interesting and vivid novel about a young boy with many names, whos only memory lies in a yellow stone on a necklace around his neck. The setting of this book, Warsaw in Poland, really describes the terrible conditions all of the people living as a Jew or Gypsy during the Holocaust. The characters are are very different and special in their very own way. Misha, the main character in the story, is timid at the beginning and later is courageous and bold. Uri, who is his companion, is a very quiet and self-centered character. The last thing that really stood out in this book was the writers style. He writes with a very strange format and it is confusing at first, but later becomes stands out in a good way. Overall, the book potrayed the time o the Holocaust through a young boy perfectly and it was one of the best books I have EVER read.
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Summary: Milkweed
Review: The book Milkweed, is the realistic story of a young jewish boy who goes through the harrowing times of World War II. Misha(as his friends call him) goes from being called Stop Theif! after stealing a loaf of bread, to Filthy Son of Abraham. The poor boy doesnt even know if he is a jew or a gypsy, but either way the nazis hate him. Misha is a slow learner, he thinks that the Nazis(or jackboots as the children call them) are men with magnificent boots marching in a parade. He wants to be a jackboot! Uri(misha's friend) scolds him for saying that. after moving to the ghetto with a friend Janina, they go from night to night stealing food, taking the risk of being caught and getting hanged. If you enjoy World War II books, this book is for you because it really shows what the people had to go through in troublesom times like that.
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Summary: Greatest book ever
Review: Two pages and I realized I was hooked this book is unbelievable I can't even fing words to describe it if you want a book that will blow you off your feet than buy Milkweed
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