Milkweed

__Milkweed__ is about a little gypsy boy name Misha. He was saved by his older friend named Uri. They lived in the basement of a barber shop. One day the Jackboots, or Nazis, came and put all the Jews and Gypsies into the ghetto. A place where many people died. A place where children had to sing a song about starving to get food. As soon as they got put into the ghetto, Uri suddenly disappears. Is Uri really who he says he is? Will Misha ever see Uri again? Misha meets a little girl named Janina and they take Misha in as part of their family. Misha finds a way to get in and out of the ghetto, past the “wall”, to get food. The only problem is that stealing is the only way for them to get food. Will Misha and his new family survive living in the ghetto? Will they have enough food to move on? This is a book of courage, hope, and sadness. I give Milkweed four stars, out of five, because it kept me wanting to read. I wanted to know what was going to happen next. It was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. One reason I didn’t like it was because it was really sad. I am the kind of person who like happy books. You would like this book if you were interested in the Jews and the Nazis. It tells what the ghetto was like in the characters point of view. Jordan Anderson

Milkweed The main character in this novel was named Misha. The setting of this story is in Germany during the Hitler rule and the Holocaust. The theme of this story is sticking together to ensure your survival. The plot of the story is to try and escape from the ghetto. I would give this book a three star rating because I didn’t like all the torture and violence the Nazis made the Jews go through.

Shannon Alwood

The book Milkweed is a interesting story that has a main character named Jew that's a gypsy. Along the way he meets Uri that takes care of him for half of the book.They run around Poland looking for food and they live like kings for a while.Then come the Nazis or Jackboots.The Nazis send all the Jews, but Uri, to a complex called the ghetto or, a consitration camp where Jews went to die,by being starved and with the dead lying around on the street.

4 out of 5 stars: I gave it 4 stars because the story could be a page turner because one chapter he’ll be getting food from the Nazis,and then it could be boring.At the end of the book it left me hanging to much.

Alex Zobain