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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: 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: Milkweed Review by Drake
Review: I am a fan of Jerry Spinelli, but not of Milkweed. The book's sensitive subject matter of the holocaust does not make it exempt from criticism. The book seemed to be overly stylized, verging on pretentious. The ending of the book seemed downright lazy to me, and stuck out like a sore from the rest of the plot. To me, Spinelli's strength is his humor. While Milkweed is not entirely without humor, its excessive self-consciousness overshadows its merits.
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Summary: milkweed
Review: I'm so glad that I pulled this book out to read, even with the terrible cover art. It makes sense after reading the book, but I doubt it'll be appealing to children. After a slow beginning, the story does pick up and I was eager to find out what happened to Misha. This is an emotional story, complete with all the terrible details of living in the Warsaw ghetto. But, by focusing on the events seen through Misha's eyes, the reader senses an innocence in Misha that is endearing. Knowing the realities of the Holocaust, I really didn't expect a happy ending, but it is a satisfying one.
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Summary: Heartbreaking yet Hopeful
Review: Jerry Spinelli has crafted a stark and horribly vivid portrayal of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, Poland during WWII.
Through the eyes of a young vagabond we see a childlike view of what it was like to live through this horrific time.
Misha is a young boy who is orphaned and living on the streets. He is told he is a gypsy and given the name Misha, by his friend and protector Uri.
From this point on Misha progresses in his understanding of all that is going on around him... he comes face to face with "Jackboots", Nazi soldiers... "Flops", turncoat Jews tormenting their own people... and those being persecuted-- Jewish people.
The saddness of this story comes through loud and clear when Misha becomes attached to the Jewish family, the Milgorms. Misha befriends, Jainna a young girl and quickly becomes part of the family and embraces his background as a Jew.
I applaud Spinelli for writing this book. I realize there are many books written for middle school students on the Holocaust, but we must never stop reading about it... if we do we may forget just how terrible it really was. And if we, as tolerant caring people forget the horrors, we could easily slip back into the cruelty and utter stupidity of the Nazi tormentors. We must never become like them.... ever!
This is a mistake from history no one should ever repeat!
So as you read this... remember that all people have value and it's our job to make sure we never allow something like the holocaust to happen again.
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Summary: Milweed
Review: Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli it is a very good book and I enjoyed it a lot. I love books about the Jews in World War II because it is so interesting. Milkweed is about a little boy who does not know his name. He's called Jew, Gypsy, Stopthief, Runt, Happy, Fast, Misha, and Jack. People just tell him what he should be called. He is an orphan who survives by taking food from people and the markets. One day while he was running a guy named Uri caught him. Uri took him to his buddies that lived in a barn. They were smugglers and would take food from people and markets too. The war started to begin and they were taking all the Jews to the ghetto. All of his friends were Jews and were going to be sent to the ghetto. They tried to hide but the Germans caught and sent them to the ghetto. The Nazi's built a wall around the ghetto and so no one can get out. There is no food to eat, no money, and people are dying from starvation and illnesses.
I really enjoyed this book and did not want it to end. This book made me feel like I was a Jew, and I was going through all of the things that they went through. Like your right by their side watching loved ones die and I couldn't anything about it. It is a really a good book and if you read it I hope you will think the same.
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Summary: Another classic from Spinelli!
Review: Milkweed is about Misha, an orphan living on the streets of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. The whole story is through his humble eyes as he steals, befriends a group of boys and gets a family. How he always escapes the fearful Flops and Jackboots. How he gets his ear shot. How every night, he enters homes and shops and innocently steals food. How he is sadly separated from his "sister" finally one day. This enchanting story weaves to what happens after the holocaust as well. Milkweed has fascinating details from the Holocaust and Misha's life is described brilliantly. You feel as though you are right there, next to Misha, running beside him as he escapes from the Jackboots, crawling behind him through the two-brick hole in the wall, from beginning to end. The characterizing is done very vividly; you can visualize every character instantly! The style of writing is also so unique and captivating! Once you start this book, it's just too hard to put it down! Milkweed is another classic from the great author of Crash, Loser, Maniac Magee and Stargirl. Two thumbs up!
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Summary: Milkweed- An exceptional novel
Review: Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli, was an interesting and vivid novel about a young boy with many names, whos only memory lies in a yellow stone on a necklace around his neck. The setting of this book, Warsaw in Poland, really describes the terrible conditions all of the people living as a Jew or Gypsy during the Holocaust. The characters are are very different and special in their very own way. Misha, the main character in the story, is timid at the beginning and later is courageous and bold. Uri, who is his companion, is a very quiet and self-centered character. The last thing that really stood out in this book was the writers style. He writes with a very strange format and it is confusing at first, but later becomes stands out in a good way. Overall, the book potrayed the time o the Holocaust through a young boy perfectly and it was one of the best books I have EVER read.
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