~We finished Jerry Spinelli's masterpiece MILKWEED! Misha survived the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust. He moved to America shortly after the war. After many years as a homeless man on the streets of Pennsylvania suffering from PTSD, he was found by a daughter he wasn't even sure he had..... He was given the chance to give his granddaughter her middle name and appropriately named her Janina. The real Janina did not survive the "ovens" of Treblinka. She perished along with her father, uncle, Korczak and his orphans. 18 out of 20 Apes rated it the best book they ever read!
