The release date for the English version of 'Milkweed' by
Jerry Spinelli is Sep 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Jerry Spinelli, winner of the Newbery Medal, has written a remarkable Holocaust tale.Also, don't miss Dead Wednesday, the author's eagerly awaited new book!
He goes by the name Jew. The Gypsy. Identify the thief. filthy Abraham's son.
A youngster who lives on the streets of Warsaw is named him. This youngster pilfers food for himself and the other abandoned children. This boy believes in moms, angels, and food.
He is a little child who, up until that point, dreams of becoming a Nazi, complete with tall, polished jackboots of his own.
And he's a youngster who learns it's safest of all to be nobody when the trains arrive to remove the Jews from the ghetto of the damned.
Through the sparkling eyes of a little Holocaust orphan, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli transports us to one of the most horrific environments imaginable—a Nazi-occupied Warsaw during World War II—and offers a narrative of loss, hope, and survival.