Milkweed; Jerry Spinelli

Summarizer

Ashley Kim

15 chapters/ 45 chapters

     Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli starts off in a fast paced run of a little boy in Warsaw around 1939. Then he meets Uri, a redheaded Jew, and so his new life begins as a Gypsy. He was first Stoptheif, then was told that he was Misha Pilsudski. What will he be next? Misha then leads a naive life of stealing, running, and wishing to be a Jackboot(Nazi) during WW ll. Another major point in the book was when Misha met Janina, a Jew who's not supposed to say she's a Jew. Her large innocent seven year old eyes first met him while he was eating tomatoes from her garden. From then on he stole bread for Janina. His ear was even shot off when he broke the curfew to give her bread. One day, he knocked at her house and she was gone. That's where it mainly ended. I enjoy the way that the book is being narrated in the point of a little boy. It makes things be seen in a different way that people don't realize.

A few comments my group had on this book and summary:

Gwendy: He's really naive. ...I think he's like ten.

Ashley: He's too naive to be ten.

Ewa: His last name is really rare.

Jana: ...I like Uri.