Milkweed

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Summary: In No Way Milked Down
Review: After reading about two pages of Milkweed, I was hooked. I was totally engulfed by it's charm, it's cleverly simple writing style, mixed with it's ironically gripping depth. It's another story of the holocaust, which is one of the most reused topics in books.
How could the author possibly keep it interesting though? A nicely crafted book is worth reading, but is it good enough to go to such great legnths to completly bury yourself in it's pages? How could it be, there are thousands of Holocaust books, and they all share at least one fimiliar trait, and only a choosen few rarely capture me in the way that books like Harry Potter capture so many others. So how did this one?
It brought something new to the table. Something new which so many others had attempted, but never fully brought out. What is this task you say? It was a perfectly innocent main character that seemed real. You felt as though these were the real thoughts, of a real child, with real emotions. You read the entire story with a hope that the boy turns spoiled, that his hurt turns to hate the others, and you beg that he becomes one who helps kill them, kill the jackboots. It makes you think in a way that you've never thunk before by reading holocaust books. It makes you think of how real it was. And unlike other books that usaully try just to show how hard it was for them, this works hard as hell to show how it affected the people. It even shares innocence with the enemies of the Jews, the Nazis and Jackboots, it shows that even they were real people.
Now for the first time I havent complained about the product in my review. Dont tell anyone.

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Summary: Spinelli's Best!
Review: As a 7th grade language arts and literature teacher, I read at least fifty young adult novels a year. Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli, is the best example in that category that I've read in a very long time. At first, I was skeptical because I viewed it as just another holocaust novel, but I was quickly drawn in by the unique perspective of the narrator and the fresh approach to the subject matter. The main character manages to rise above his circumstances but is believable at the same time as he is scarred for life by the atrocities he witnesses and experiences first hand in the Warsaw ghetto of WWII. Spinelli's ability to insert touches of humor in such a bleak setting are brilliant. I have recommended this book to people of all ages and only wish that it was a suitable read-aloud. It doesn't lend itself to that as there are frequent points where Spinelli's choppy, but appropriate, style is hard to follow as a listener, and one often wants to go back and check the facts. The book deserves a better cover, and I hope that bookstore browsers will pick it up anyway. Once they do, it will be hard to put down.

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Summary: My 7th and 8th Grade Students Love This Book
Review: Have you ever read a book that just haunted your every thought? This is one of those books. This book absolutely should be read by students and adults alike. I am reading it to my 7th and 8th grade reading students. This book has sparked several meaningful discussions and has students asking for more about this time in history. I will pass this to my children's children, as I am sure this will become a classic.
Don't pass this book up!

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Summary: A Great Book for Everyone
Review: Hi, I am in 7th grade, and Milkweed was one of the best books I have ever read! Misha, who is the main character of the book, befriends another boy named Uri, and together they survive in the streets of Warsaw, Poland. Their life would have been fine, but the Holocaust had begun and Misha was forced into a ghetto, where he was crowded together with other orphans, Jews, and gypsies. While in the ghetto many people starved and died. Misha and his friends go through many hardships and injustices, but in the end Misha survives the Holocaust, and at an old age finally finds a true home.
I thought this book was really good, although very sad, and I felt the ending was a little rushed, but all in all I thought that it was a well- written book, and I enjoyed it a great deal. Jerry Spinelli put in enough gruesome, and saddening details about the Holocaust to make you feel sad, but unlike some other Holocaust books they do not make you feel nauseous and queasy. It is definitely the type of book you can't put down, this is probably because of the main character, Misha. Misha is not a very smart boy, and he makes you want to scream in his ear and tell him what to do. As Misha learns about the world around him, you, the reader, also learn about the Holocaust and its cruelties. Because you only learn what Misha learns, you sometimes feel a little held back, but this only makes you want to keep reading even more. Jerry Spinelli also writes the book in an interesting format. He has lots of short, and strange- sized sentences. These, I believe, help give you the real image and feel of the book, although sometimes they do seem a little out of place. Milkweed was a fantastic book, and I recommend it to people of all ages!

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Summary: The Best book made EVER!
Review: his book is probably... the best book Jerry Spinalli has ever MADE! The boy in the story, Misha, Has been through a lot and I mean A LOT! The poor boy has to live with boys that smoke and call him a nasty son of abraham and jew, nasty Jew, dirty, rotten, nasty, smelly JEW.The poor kid has to fend for him self and his is only about 12-14 years old!!! That is tough for a kid for his age and Jerry Spinelli is making a great atmosphere for the readers and bringing out how nasty and Dirty the city of warsaw is. This is the best book to lose your self and just get a great picture of what this kid has to go through and what it would be like to be in this kids shoes. Jerry Spinelli does a great job of making the reader goes lose themselves in one of the greatest book that Jerry Has ever Made!

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Summary: it's really good...
Review: I had to read a historical fiction book for a History book report project from teh period of the Westward expansion to Vietnam War. I chose teh Holocaust and Milkweed. It's really good. I think it also adds an eerie thing to the story about the stone angel. it's so Gothic and I'm a Goth, so I would know. hehehe. well, it was a great book, and very historically accurate.

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Summary: Not Very Good
Review: I had to read this for a state-wide essay contest and I hated it. I read it four times in order to fully understand it, and each time I read it, it got more and more painful.

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Summary: Wow!
Review: I just finished this amazing book, and can't figure out why I hadn't heard of it before. I had become jaded about reading holocaust novels, but this book was a completely fresh breath of air. Jerry Spinelli has brought to life a character of such innocence, loyalty, and wonder. You see the rise and fall of the Warsaw ghettos with such lively detail through his eyes you feel as if you could go there and find the places he has described. And at the heart of the book is the most tender of love stories. This is the book I'll be telling everyone who comes in the library about this fall.

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Summary: very good book!!!!!!!!
Review: I loved reading this book milkweed, because it's about a little boy in Warsaw Poland during the holocaust.
The book gives a really good description of how hard life was for a poor boy in the Warsaw ghetto.
The book made me feel like I was in there with Misha Piluski. Like I had to steel food to stay alive.
I think that the book Is good because they actually tell a story instead of telling just what had happened.
I would recommend this book to anyone because it tells what happened in a interesting way.

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Summary: Milkweed SUPEAR NOVEL
Review: I thought it was a good book because it is an interesting story of a boy who does not know anything about himself during the period of the WWII holocaust. Misha the main character.has no idea where he came from or what his name is. He is befriended by a group of Jewish orphans who steal food for a living. After a while he meets a little Jewish girl, named Janina. When her family is forced to move to the ghetto, Misha goes to live with them. Just as everyone is starving, there are deportations (to the concentration camps but the Jews don't know where they are going) Janina is taken to the concentration camps, but Misha escapes to America, to tell his story.
I liked this novel very much, because it told a story that is still in some existence today, racism. The Holocaust is no longer a problem for Jews and gypsies today, but they still face some discrimination. I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good story with strong characters. Several emotions I experienced are, anger, sadness, happiness, excitement and relief. This is a very well written novel because the novel is written because it is told in the perspective of a little boy who is clueless to what is happening in the time period.