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Summary Of The Book 'Milkweed' By Jerry Spinelli
As a child Jerry Spinelli would blow Milkweeds into the air behind his house. Sometimes he would do research about the holocaust and that's where he got his idea to write the award winning book “MILKWEED” .(#1)
“MILKWEED, a award winning book wrote by Jerry Spinelli, the book takes place in the modern times on streets of the Warsaw ghetto in 1939 during the Nazi occupation of Poland.” While your reading the book MILKWEED you can see that identity is a key theme in the book. The protagonist/narrator is young boy who has no identity but called many names such as Stop thief, Jew, and Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who steals food from fox fur ladies for himself and orphans. He's a boy also wants to become a Nazi with tall and shiny jackboots,

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