The Holocaust: Milkweed By Jerry Spinelli

Have you ever read a book about the holocaust. If not and you want to read one I would suggest Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli. The book starts off with the main character Misha stealing a loaf of bread and then meets Uri who acts as his guardian for the first half of the book. Misha recalls nothing of his past, but accepts a past made up by Uri, until he is accepted into a new family with Janina, his “sister”, and accepts being a jew instead of a gypsy. Misha is put into a ghetto by the jackboots, but finds a drainage hole that is two bricks wide and uses the hole as a smuggling route where he goes to “heaven” or as it’s really called Warshaw and steals food to bring back to the ghetto to feed the orphans and his family.

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