Thousand Small Sparrows Amazing Stories of Kids Helping Kids

Name: Thousand Small Sparrows Amazing Stories of Kids Helping Kids
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ISBN: 9781590529331

ISBN-10: 1590529332

ISBN-13: 9781590529331

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jeff Leeland, Marcus Brotherton

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"In 1992, Jeff and Kristi Leeland's infant son, Michael, needed a bone marrow transplant. It cost $200,000 they didn't have. That's when Dameon, the most picked-on kid in the junior high where Jeff taught, emptied his bank account and handed Jeff twelve $5 bills to help save Michael's life. Other students rallied behind Dameon's $60 donation of hope--and a community rallied behind them. In less than four weeks, they raised over $227,000 for Michael's life-saving transplant. " Sometimes it's the "small "who are mighty and the "young" who are wise.... Kids will do heroic things when they have heroic things to do. Out of the Leelands' experience came Sparrow Clubs USA, an organization of kids…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/21/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Jeff Leeland is a popular speaker and founder/executive of the national youth-based charity, Sparrow Clubs USA. His first book, One Small Sparrow , won the 1996 Christopher Award for "literary works that affirm the highest values of the human spirit." Jeff and his wife, Kristi, have been married twenty-five years and have five wonderful children.