MILKWEED BLOG

MILKWEED Blog
The novel Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli is a sad, funny, informative, emotionally impacting, and utterly amazing book, suprisingly only 208 pages. The story tells of a young boy who has no official name, so he will be known as Misha. Misha is small, he is fast, stu-id, and he is silly. He is growing up in the Holocaust and he steals everything he can get his hands on. Misha is discovered by another boy named Uri, who takes him too meet the other boys. When the bombs drop, everyone except Uri is put in the ghetto. Where Misha and his new friend Janina sneak out, steal food, and become best friends. Misha grows up and faces numerous hardships, of which are impossible to tell in a mere 4-5 sentences. The main character ,Misha, is a very heroic character.



Without Misha, Janina, Mr. Miligram, and Uncle Sherpsle would all have died in the ghetto. Misha helped find food, which he smuggles. Misha helped Janina and the orphans survive by keeping them fed. When Misha is shot in the ear by Uri, his friend, for the second time, he is left for dead. After all the deportation trains have left, along with Janina, he begins his journey for her. He is kept on a farm as a slave for three years with nothing to eat but pig slop, and never complains about it.Misha makes friends with the mice and once the war is over he wanders and steals again, as everything is back to normal. He grows up and has a kid, who he doesn’t meet until the kid is 25, by then he has grandchildren. This book is an outstanding read and one who hasn’t read it, needs to!

(There is A LOT to tell, and if I were to write a 4 paragraph summary instead of a 4 sentence one, I would)