Jerry Spinelli

Have you ever heard of the Holocaust that took place in the 1930’s and 40’s? Have you ever heard of the Nazis that took control in Germany, and everything around it? Well, in the two excerpts, “Until Then I Had Only Read about These Things in Books,” and, the excerpt from Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli, and the poem, “The Guard,” by Jennifer Roy, there are many circumstances in which children are attempting to survive this event. However, the narrators express their feelings, and either have similar feelings toward experiences with the “Jackboots”/Nazis, or different emotions. In the excerpt from Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli, the excerpt from “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books,” and the poem, “The Guard,” by Jennifer…

In the book, Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli uses detailed thoughts, actions, and dialogue to develop the character, Earl Grayson. Spinelli used many of these things to make Grayson come off as a sedulous person. One way Grayson is sedulous is that he worked very hard to achieve his goal of reading. A part of the text reads, ¨Sometimes he got m and n mixed up, but the only one that gave him trouble was c. It reminded him of a bronc some cowboy dared him to ride in his Texas League days.¨ A few…

The book Wringer is a book that explains the life of an average ten year old kid who really does not fit in his community because he does not want to wring the necks of pigeons . Everyone wrings pigeons necks when they turn ten years old and most kids are excited for it. Wringer written by Jerry Spinelli is a great book for people like myself who love animals and never want to see anything bad happen to them. It is a very sweet book about a boy named Palmer LaRue, who takes in a pigeon as a pet…

Milkweed has a bit of romance, friendship and tragedy all mixed together quite nicely. A quote from BookPage states, “Jerry Spinelli has fashioned a novel of beauty out of the ugliness of the Holocaust.” The story is about a boy in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during the holocaust. Misha, the boy, dreams of one day becoming a Nazi himself, but soon realizes the harsh realities of the world he is living in. Misha meets a Jewish boy named Uri and they live together in an abandoned barbershop together.…

The problem between Leo and Stargirl was not that he didn’t love her. Because he walked around most the time in a love daze also in the end of the book he said that she was all he thought about. Leo said and i quote “ Just two weeks before , i had found out she knew my name, and now i was loopy with love.” , “ I was floating “ , “ I floated up the white light that washed my sheets and slept on the moon” , “ In school i was a yellow balloon , smiling and lazy floating above the classrooms.” He…

The book i chosen to read over the summer was the book called Star Girl. Star girl was written by Jerry Spinelli. Furthermore the main idea of the story is there this girl who is named star girl decides to switch from being home schooled to being in a public school. Star Girl was a free spirited girl. And she was different from the typical teenage girls which were portrayed in this story. For a while a lot of people hated her for her uniqueness. However she eventually tried and changed her ways…

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,…

In the book stargirl , there's a girl that does not conform to high school norms. She very unique that people find her out if the ordinary. Though she seems odd she knows herself more than others ever would. Due to being her judged she started to become more uniformed as a typical teen. stargirl had a very unique appearance she wore a long white dress almost wedding like material. The kids thought it was odd what she wore and they made fun of her for it they thought she was fake cause of how…

streets. What lengths would a person go to in order to ensure their survival? Would they lie? Would they steal? Would they turn on their own? Would they sacrifice their pride and freedom? These are all hard questions to answer.Luckily, most people in the twenty-first century do not have confront them, but Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli many characters do. The Holocaust was arguably the worst atrocity ever committed by humans and for good reason. Over 11 million people were killed-- mostly between…

Oppression is a noun meaning prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. A synonym for oppression can be abuse. In the book Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli oppression is seen throughout most of the novel. Oppression can be seen and can also be unseen. The main character in Milkweed is a little boy that contains many names throughout the book. One name is Misha. There are many oppressors in the book Milkweed. Misha is the character that experiences most of it. Misha met a group of boys in his…