6.Milkweed

           Milkweed is a book about a boy named Misha who lived in Warsaw, Poland who steals for a living. One day while stealing a loaf of bread he bumped in to another boy stealing named Uri who later brings him back to his friends. They don’t like him because at first they think he’s a Jew but later they find out that he’s gypsy. Uri acts as his protector. But one day German soldiers attacked the city and moved everyone to the ghetto. Misha loved them he said that he wanted to be a soldier too. He lived in the ghetto with a girl named Janina and her family who gave him a bracelet with a star. Every night he snuck out with the boys to get over the wall and steal. But night after night Uri was nowhere to be found, then one night while hunting for food he passed by a soldier hotel and saw Uri in a uniform of a German Armed Forces soldier. Later that night he saw soldiers in the ghetto yelling and shooting people telling people to stop trafficking food, then he saw his friend who was hung from a light post.

               The next day they were putting people in trains saying they were going to a better place, near the train Janina was trying to get on but Misha would not let her she hoped on the train and Misha was shot on one ear. Misha moved to New York got married had a kid then got divorced, he told his story on street corners until one day he met his daughter, And that’s when he realized life was alright.

               This book was another World War 2 by Jerry Spinelli. This is my second all-time favorite book; I already love the history of that time, but this book just brings the life out of that, I liked that Uri saved the boys and Misha from the trains. I also liked the fact that he didn’t really bring out too much violence. Just read it 10on10