This book is about a boy named Stop Thief which is the main character in Milkweed.When Stop Thief was younger he had a horse named Greta until it run away and he never saw it again.Stop Thief is a gypsy that would wait around corners waiting until some one to come by with a loaf of bread and steal it from them. Until one day he stole bread from a lady and a person was chasing him. Stop Thief was to fast for him. Finally the boy caught up pushing him on the ground. The mans name was Uri. Uri was a Jewish boy you met Stop Thief when he was stealing bread from people.Stop Thief and Uri would always call Nazi Jackboots because of there shiny boots. He brought Stop Thief to a stable were there were people the age of them smoking and eating. Stop Thief would sneak around trying to find food until he met a girl named Jania you was a small girl that invited him to her birthday.When Stop Thief tried sneaking out one time a Jackboot caught him and started shooting and shot him in the earlobe.The Jackboots were a big problem in Poland causing a sorts of issues. Stop Thief was a bad guy at first until he started to give food to the orphans to eat. Stop Thief was a big help in the story. Soon everything started to go bad and all the Jews were sent to Ghettos. They were all Jewish. Stop Thief would follow Uri were ever he went. Stop Thief would live with Uri in a basement of a barber shop or a stable. They would stay there and hide from the Jackboots. This is the book Milkweed.