Ten years ago, a three-year-old boy with a crystal acorn pendant and an Ernie Banks baseball card was left on the doorstep of the Lakeside Home for Boys, next to Wrigley Field in Chicago. Naming the boy Ernie after the card, the Home took him in and spent the next ten years trying to make him into a good little boy.
It sort of worked.
Ernie, now thirteen, spent those ten years in
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battle with the Home’s administrator. In a last ditch effort to keep Ernie from Juvie, the Home sends him to work for a poor widower, Farmer Russ, whose son Shawn was kidnapped about thirteen years ago….
The mobile above baby Shawn’s cradle—still in its room all these years later—sports crystal acorns just like Ernie’s. Investigating, Ernie begins to remember things from his first three years of life. He remembers the Puddlejumpers
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