Milkweed

He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. 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, with tall, shiny jackboots of his own — until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind.

And 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.

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.

A stunning novel of the Holocaust from Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli.