Spinelli, Jerry Milkweed.Spinelli, Jerry MILKWEED milkweed, common name for members of the Asclepiadaceae, a family of mostly perennial herbs and shrubs characterized by milky sap, a tuft of silky hairs attached to the seed (for wind distribution), and (usually) a climbing habit. . ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 037-5813-3748. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2003. 224 pp. $15.95. Imagine stuffing a book into the seat of your trousers, asking a friend to hold you upside down by your feet, and then begging another friend to hit the book with a heavy stick to knock the lice off your body! Orphan Misha Pilsudski (a.k.a. Stopthief, Jew, Filthy Son of Abraham, Gypsy) and his friends living in the Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in the General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. Between 1940 and 1943, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the face those and other horrors as they struggle for survival during the Holocaust. This extraordinary novel offers readers graphic vignettes of street life during war, seen through the eyes of a child who perceives the world differently from ordinary people. Ages 10 up.--J. B. |
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