Milkweed
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Jerry Spinelli
        
        
                
                            
        
        
        
                    
                ISBN: 9780440420057
            
        
                    
                Publication Date: 2005-09-13
            
        
                
                            
                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, he’s a boy who realizes it's safest of all to be nobody. Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli  takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable-Nazi-occupied Warsaw and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the eyes of a young Holocaust orphan.