~We have finally started reading Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli. Today we met our main character Stopthief. He believes this is his name because that is all he has heard people call him. He is taken into the care of a teenage orphan boy who is teaching him about life on the street for Polish children. Most importantly he teaches him: steal only what you need, and DO NOT call attention to yourself. Kuba, another homeless boy does not follow this rule as he steals s huge glass lamp of a lady and runs down the street with it. He gets caught... but he sure did make us laugh.
Enrique
Smiley Rhylee
reading Milkweed together
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The Gypsies of Europe (Roma, or Romani and Sinti people) were starved and killed more than any other group in the Holocaust, except for the Jews. They were rounded up and isolated in ghettoes, then transported to killing centers such as Auschwitz and Treblinka. The main character in our new novel is named Stopthief. The other orphans boys, who are Jewish, inferred that he is a Gypsy die to his darker skin, and the yellow stone around hi neck. Stopthief also remembers a few details of his life such as being around wagons.... and most Gypsies travelled by wagon.
A Romani family
Gypsy women before execution
