Milkweed, based on Jerry Spinelli’s sobering and ultimately uplifting novel, is a story of enduring love, loss and healing and, in the end, our universal search for belonging. Read More Our Team. Overview. Milkweed is a young adult historical fiction novel by Jerry Spinelli. Published in , Milkweed won the Golden Kite Award and Carolyn W. Field Award in fiction. The novel follows a young, unnamed boy’s life in Warsaw, Poland, during the Holocaust. Orphaned at a young age, the unnamed protagonist runs wild in the streets of Warsaw, stealing bread from unsuspecting passersby. About the Book. Young Misha Pilsudski lives on the streets of Warsaw, Poland and struggles with his identity. When he enters the Jewish ghetto and sees firsthand the evil acts of Hitler’s Nazi soldiers, he realizes it’s safest of all to be nobody. Milkweed, opens in and tells the story of a homeless, nameless boy — a “nobody” — until he takes up with other street kids and embraces the identity of a .
Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable-Nazi-occupied Warsaw during World War II-and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young Holocaust orphan. About Milkweed. A stunning novel of the Holocaust from Newbery Medalist, Jerry Spinelli. Jon. Jon is a boy from the gang of Warsaw street orphans. He is thin and gray and never speaks; he dies during the first winter in the ghetto. The farmer. After Misha escapes the ghetto, this farmer in the Polish countryside takes him in. But when Misha tries to leave, the farmer ties him to a post in the barn. Jerry Spinelli won the Newbery Medal for Maniac Magee and a Newbery Honor Award for Wringer. He has written many other award-winning books for young readers, including Stargirl, Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid, and Crash. Spinelli has been touched by the Holocaust since his childhood.
Milkweed, based on Jerry Spinelli’s sobering and ultimately uplifting novel, is a story of enduring love, loss and healing and, in the end, our universal search for belonging. Read More Our Team. Overview. Milkweed is a young adult historical fiction novel by Jerry Spinelli. Published in , Milkweed won the Golden Kite Award and Carolyn W. Field Award in fiction. The novel follows a young, unnamed boy’s life in Warsaw, Poland, during the Holocaust. Orphaned at a young age, the unnamed protagonist runs wild in the streets of Warsaw, stealing bread from unsuspecting passersby. Milkweed is a young adult historical fiction novel by American author Jerry Spinelli. The book is about a boy in Warsaw, Poland in the years of World War II during the Holocaust. Over time he is taken in by a Jewish group of orphans and he must avoid the Nazis while living on the streets with other orphans. The story narrator is the boy in the future living in America recalling his past experiences. Despite being a historical fiction novel, Doctor Korczak, a minor character in the story is.
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