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"Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Cuckoo. Stupid. Filthy son of Abraham." These are some of the many epithets used to deride the main character in Jerry Spinelli's Milkweed, a novel about street children in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of World War II. In a place and time where identity and ancestry are everything, the main character has neither. He does not know his name, where he comes from, or who his parents are. A strange yellow stone...
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