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Book ReviewsMilkweed: A Novel (Thorndike Press Large Print Young Adult Series) |
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Book: Milkweed: A Novel (Thorndike Press Large Print Young Adult Series)
Written by: Jerry Spinelli |
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5
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Milkweed
Rating:
5 / 5
Hi I read milkweed it was very interresting book. It was about
a boy who dose not know what he is.and i do not whant to be mert the bleart.
Another Spinelli's Good Book.
Rating:
5 / 5
Milkweed is about a boy called Misha Pilsudski in the World War 2 where Nazi started to take over the Eroupe.He was a litte Gypsi boy who became a member of a group made of thief Jew boys. Uri, the one who found Misha and took care of him was a Jew, but also a Jackboot(German soldier). When boys and Misha went to Gato, Misha had a hard time. While all this was happening, he became part of a family with his younger friend, Jania and her family. Later, due to Uri's help, he escaped. This book has an unexpected ending that makes readers surprise. There are a lot of books describing Jewish people's hard time, but this book gives us whole different feeling. By inculuding main character who was Gypsi and theif rather than Jewish, this book explain hard time in that period in easier way. Unlike its cover, it doesn't has only dark side. Jerry Spenelli shows hope and innocence of kids' mind really well in this book. This is definitely the one of the best book Spinelli wrote.
Filthy Son of Abramham
Rating:
2 / 5
This book is about a boy named Misha that lives on the streets in a town named Warsaw. He steals food from stores and rich people so his friends and him won't die. Misha thinks he is a gypsy, because of the yellow necklace he wears. So one of his friends Uri gave him the name Misha Pilsudski. There are Jackboot soldiers which are nazis, surrounding the streets and treating the jews like dirt. They make the male jews wash the sidewalk with their beards. The nazis also bomb stores to destroy food, so the jews would starve to death. The soldiers also striped a store owner of his clothes and painted his face yellow out of menace. After a while they make all the jews live in a ghetto surrounded by a brick wall. Where they would have roll call and beat the ones that couldn't stand at attention. I would not recomend this book to people that don't like informational books and sad stories. This book has a lot of new things about jewish people during the holocaust that some people like me has never studied before. Surly you will learn a lot about the terible things that happened to the jews during this extended period of thime in history if you read this book. It has a genre of historical fiction, so some of the parts will be false but very educational to the young mind.
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