TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spinelli,Jerry
TI  - Milkweed: a novel 
SN  - 0439676975
AV  - YA PZ 7.S75663 Mi 2004
PY  - 2004///, c2003
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - Boys
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Jews
KW  - Poland
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Coming of age
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Warsaw (Poland)
N1  - "This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--P. [4] of cover
N2  - He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. 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 some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. 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
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