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Summary: Better Than Average
Review: A group of handicapped children and their counselor spend the summer at camp and have a wonderful life experience. It's a good book because it's short and sweet. The epilouge is very depressing though.
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Summary: A Hidden Treasure
Review: After recommending a book called SEEDFOLKS to a colleague, she recommended THE ACORN PEOPLE to me. Though written many years back and almost impossible to find in most libraries or bookstores, it's one of those hidden treasures that can make you laugh and cry at the same time. It tells the story of a college stuent turned summer camp counselor who gets a job working with severely physically handicapped youngsters and, almost immediately, feels like going AWOL from this job because of the overwhelming odds. However, he soon discovers that they can teach him far more about life than he ever learned in a classroom. Just as a blind person usually has a far keener sense of hearing, these physically handicapped youngsters have a way of sharing their true personalities and strengths, producing some mini-miracles (actually maxi-ones) for each other as well as themselves. Wording in the book is superb, realistic, and not the least bit maudlin. When I finished reading it and noticed something I had previously missed--that the story was actually true--it made this book even more meaningful to me. Though a short work, it's impossible to read it without feeling its strong, positive impact. It helps all of us to be grateful for what we have and to also see how we can compensate for what we do not have. THE ACORN PEOPLE depicts a summer that none of the group would ever forget in their short lives and that will stay with the reader as an inspiration for what people can do when they bother--and have fun doing it at the same time. With the exception of one word that won't be found in the dictionary, this work is one that should be read (or at least heard) by everyone over the age of ten. It would make the world a better place.
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Summary: An out-of-date view of the lives of children with disabiliti
Review: As an adult with disabilities and a teacher, I am interested in any book about handicapping conditions. I cannot recommend _The Acorn People_ because it does not give its target audience an appropriate view of the situation for children with severe disabilities. Although the author travels the journey from seeing the children as hopeless to seeing their abilites, the children never become individuals, and nothing changes long-term. The readers are left with the impression that people with severe disabilities ive futile lives, with perhaps brief intermissions for joy, before an early death. We never are allowed to see how their lives affect the children, or what allows them to find this joy. Jones never realizes that what he sees didn't come out because of camp-but was there all along. He never realizes that his disability is as significant as the children's.For this reason, I cannot justify recommending this book as anything but a historical view of disability, and for that, there are better books.
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Summary: Readers Beware, you may be bored to tears
Review: Hello. I'm 12 years old and I was required to read the Acorn People for a school project. It did very little to hold my interest. I appreciated that it was a very down to earth book. In it you will go through two weeks of summer camp with several disabled campers, who form what they call the Acorn People. If you want to find out more, buy the book, but beware, it may bore you to death.
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Summary: Reading this book makes you have mixed emotions.
Review: Hi am an eleven year old who has read this excellent novel titled "The Acorn People". The reason why this book was so good was because it gave you a chance to read about the struggles a handicapped kid has to go through everyday. This novel also makes you deep down inside cheer for one of the characters in the novel and it makes you feel like you too have to overcome all the obsticles the kids in the novel had to overcome as their camp days slowly came to an end. Even though the book had some happy points it also had some sad points. To me the ending was a little disturing. Yes, this novel is a true story which in some ways is very sad. Personally once I picked this book up I could not put it down. My favorite character was Benny because he was a speed demon just like me. He had no legs therefor his wheelchair took their place. Here are some names of the characters that you will learn to love: Dominic, Thomas Stewart (Spider), Benny, Martin, and Aaron Gerwalski (Arid). I advise people of all ages to read it so you to can live life through the eyes of a disabled child. One other thing that a personally did not like about the novel was that it was based on a boy's camp cabin. Yes, once or twice they talked about the girls but, not as often as I would have preferred but, do not let a minor reason like that shy away from the novel. I advise you to pick this bok up this book today at your nearest book stor, the library, or right here at Amazon Books online
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Summary: Reading this book makes you have mixed emotions.
Review: Hi am an eleven year old who has read this excellent novel titled "The Acorn People". The reason why this book was so good was because it gave you a chance to read about the struggles a handicapped kid has to go through everyday. This novel also makes you deep down inside cheer for one of the characters in the novel and it makes you feel like you too have to overcome all the obsticles the kids in the novel had to overcome as their camp days slowly came to an end. Even though the book had some happy points it also had some sad points. To me the ending was a little disturing. Yes, this novel is a true story which in some ways is very sad. Personally once I picked this book up I could not put it down. My favorite character was Benny because he was a speed demon just like me. He had no legs therefor his wheelchair took their place. Here are some names of the characters that you will learn to love: Dominic, Thomas Stewart (Spider), Benny, Martin, and Aaron Gerwalski (Arid). I advise people of all ages to read it so you to can live life through the eyes of a disabled child. One other thing that a personally did not like about the novel was that it was based on a boy's camp cabin. Yes, once or twice they talked about the girls but, not as often as I would have preferred but, do not let a minor reason like that shy away from the novel. I advise you to pick this bok up this book today at your nearest book stor, the library, or right here at Amazon Books online
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Summary: Acorn Words
Review: HI! I am a 12 yr. old who read this book for summer reading. I enjoyed it a lot. It is a true story about 5 disabled kids named Martin, Spider, Aaron, Benny B. and Thomas. It was a very touching story.
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Summary: people
Review: i cried and felt sorry for the people the whole time
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Summary: the Acorn People
Review: I did not like the book because it was not my kind of book. I would rather read a book on bikes. I am not the type of person that likes this book. I would recommded this book to other kids that like to read about disabled kids. The kids in this book are different and the same as to regular kids.
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Summary: A True Tear Jerker!
Review: I first read this book at the age of 12. It amazed me by the content and reality of handicapped children. I am now 16 and am obsessed with this book. It is the best book in the world in my opinion. I love it!
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