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The Acorn People, a very special group of disabled children, make their dreams come true at Camp Wiggin-swimming, staging a play, even hiking up Lookout Mountain! The Acorn People prove to the world that with encouragement and determination, nothing is impossible.
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-[The Acorn People] will give your innards a bear hug. . . .You will read this book with a lump in your throat.--Lincoln Journal
-A fantastic and beautiful story.---Seattle Times
-Uncomfortably moving, yet told in surprisingly unsentimental terms. . . . Succinct and tender, it will haunt the reader long after the brief passages have been read.---Houston Chronicle
-Ron Jones' true story of a group of handicapped children at summer camp is one of the most poignant, beautiful and eloquent tales to come this way in a long time.---Flint Journal
"[The Acorn People] will give your innards a bear hug. . . .You will read this book with a lump in your throat."-Lincoln Journal "A fantastic and beautiful story."--Seattle Times "Uncomfortably moving, yet told in surprisingly unsentimental terms. . . . Succinct and tender, it will haunt the reader long after the brief passages have been read."--Houston Chronicle "Ron Jones' true story of a group of handicapped children at summer camp is one of the most poignant, beautiful and eloquent tales to come this way in a long time."--Flint Journal
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-A fantastic and beautiful story.---Seattle Times
-Uncomfortably moving, yet told in surprisingly unsentimental terms. . . . Succinct and tender, it will haunt the reader long after the brief passages have been read.---Houston Chronicle
-Ron Jones' true story of a group of handicapped children at summer camp is one of the most poignant, beautiful and eloquent tales to come this way in a long time.---Flint Journal
"[The Acorn People] will give your innards a bear hug. . . .You will read this book with a lump in your throat."-Lincoln Journal "A fantastic and beautiful story."--Seattle Times "Uncomfortably moving, yet told in surprisingly unsentimental terms. . . . Succinct and tender, it will haunt the reader long after the brief passages have been read."--Houston Chronicle "Ron Jones' true story of a group of handicapped children at summer camp is one of the most poignant, beautiful and eloquent tales to come this way in a long time."--Flint Journal
Ron Jones is an author and has written several novels including The Acorn People, The Wave, and B-Ball, which have each been made into award-nominated television specials. Jones is a native San Franciscan, who still lives in California with his family. He is a graduate of Stanford University masters degree program in education and he taught theater and sports to the physically and mentally disabled for 30 years, but has since retired. Jones now enjoys writing and performing as a spoken word artist.
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- PublisherBantam Books
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0553208632
- ISBN 13 9780553208634
- BindingMass Market Paperback
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