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Milkweed Jerry Spinelli Hardcover | Knopf Books for Young Readers | 0-375-81374-8 | September 2003 | $15.95 | Ages 10 and up

What would you do if you didn't know your own name, who your family was, or where you came from?  Misha Pilsudski is a boy who doesn't know anything about himself and must rely on the stories and kindness of others to give him a past and treat him like family.  He is a boy who does not understand what is happening when he is forced to live in the ghetto by the magnificent but mean Jackboots, what he calls the Nazis.  Life for Misha is about discovery, only he is discovering the horrors of Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.  Will Misha understand the tragedy of what is going on around him or can he remain innocent and unaware in the face of terrible hardship?

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