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About Jerry Spinelli
See more books from this AuthorWhen the reader first meets the narrator of this tale, he knows himself only as “Stopthief.” He is a Warsaw street orphan, without morals, without culture, without community—until Uri takes him in to join his pack of fellow orphans, all Jews.
| Read Full Review of MilkweedThe little boy does not know his age, does not even know his name;
Sep 18 2004 | Read Full Review of MilkweedConveying a sometimes-astonishing naïveté in light of the brutality seen through the eyes of an orphan boy, Rifkin breathes emotion into Spinelli's novel, which is set in Poland during the Holocaust.
| Read Full Review of Milkweedpeople who have not read this book read it .it is a really good book This book interested me two years ago when I bought it, or rather, my Language Arts teacher, Mrs. Burger, bought it for me at a book fair.
| Read Full Review of MilkweedAND KIDS: IF YOUR TEACHER GIVES YOU A CHOICE BETWEEN THIS BOOK, AND ANOTHER BOOK, CHOICE THE ANOTHER BOOK, BECAUSE THIS BOOK STINKS!!!!
| Read Full Review of MilkweedI love this book so much, and it's definitely one of the best Holocaust books there are (and I've read a lot).
| Read Full Review of MilkweedBut even for a survivor like Misha, conditions soon become unbearable -- and Misha must decide where he belongs.
Sep 13 2003 | Read Full Review of MilkweedIt is Uri who guides Misha through life on the streets, but when Misha sees a girl he knows herded into the Warsaw ghetto with her family, he knows he must follow her.
Sep 09 2003 | Read Full Review of MilkweedHe marches alongside the Jews on the way to the ghetto, gives food to an orphanage, steals from the "fox fur" ladies and sneaks out at night to steal food to bring back to the ghetto.
Nov 14 2010 | Read Full Review of MilkweedAn aggregated and normalized score based on 462 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes