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Spinelli, Jerry , Spinelli, Jerry

Milkweed

210 pp. | Knopf | September, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-375-81374-8 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-375-91374-2 $$17.99
(4) 4-6 A homeless young boy joins an unruly gang of Jewish street kids. The horrors of the Holocaust don't become evident until Misha (another of Spinelli's exuberant, good-hearted protagonists) and his friends are rounded up and confined to the Warsaw ghetto. Though this novel suffers from uneven pacing and a conclusion that's unconvincing and cloying, it also contains some memorably harrowing images that will remain in the reader's mind.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2003

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