Milkweed
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jerry Spinelli.
Edition: Scholatic paperback ed.
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Boys -- Juvenile fiction; Jews -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction; Warsaw (Poland) -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Other titles: Cecilia Bard Multicultural Library for Peace
Description: He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham -- He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. When the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he's a boy who realizes it's safest of all to be nobody.
Notes: Cecilia Bard Multicultural Library for Peace.

"This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--P. [4] of cover.