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Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her

Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her

by Torey L. Hayden

Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled world--until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self-imposed silence. Nothing in all of Torey Hayden's experience could have prepared her for the shock of what Jadie told her--a story too horrendous for Torey's professional colleagues to acknowledge. Yet a... (more)

One Child

by Torey L. Hayden

Finally, a beginning... The time had finally come. The time I had been waiting for through all these long months that I knew sooner or later had to occur. Now it was here. She had surprised me so much by actually crying that for a moment I did nothing but look at her. Then I gathered her into my arms, hugging her tightly. She clutched onto my shirt so that I could feel the dull pain of her fingers digging into my... (more)

The Tiger's Child

by Torey L. Hayden

What ever became of Sheila? When special-education teacher Torey Haydenwrote her first book One Child almost twodecades ago, she created an internationalbestseller. Her intensely moving true story ofSheila, a silent, profoundly disturbed littlesix-year-old girl touched millions. From everycorner of the world came letters from readerswanting to know more about the troubled childwho had come into Torey Hayden's... (more)

Beautiful Child

by Torey L. Hayden

Seven-year-old Venus Fox never spoke, never listened, never even acknowledged the presence of another human being in the room with her. Yet an accidental playground "bump" would release a rage frightening to behold. The school year that followed would prove to be one of the most trying, perplexing, and ultimately rewarding of Torey's career, as she struggled to reach a silent child in obvious pain. It would be a... (more)

Just Another Kid

by Torey L. Hayden

Just Another Kid Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could handle-three recent arrivals from battletorn Northern Ireland, badly traumatized by the horrors of war; eleven-year-old Dirkie, who only knew of life inside an institution; excitable Mariana, aggressive and sexually precocious at the age of eight; and seven-year-old Leslie, perhaps the most hopeless of all, unresponsive and... (more)

Murphy's Boy

by Torey L. Hayden

His name was Kevin but his keepers called him Zoo Boy. He didn't talk. He hid under tables and surrounded himself with a cage of chairs. He hadn't been out of the building in the four years since he'd come in. He was afraid of water and wouldn't take a shower. He was afraid to be naked, to change his clothes. He was nearly 16. Desperate to see change in the boy, the staff of Kevin's adolescent treatment center... (more)

Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened

Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened

by Torey L. Hayden

A light in the darkness for severely troubled children, former special education teacher Torey Hayden faced three of her most extraordinary challenges after she left the classroom Nine-year-old Cassandra, kidnapped by her father and found starving, dirty, and picking through garbage cans -- a child prone to long silences and erratic, violent behavior, whose hard-won recollections of the nightmare she endured... (more)

Somebody Else's Kids

by Torey L. Hayden

"Were all just somebody else's kids..." A small seven-year-old boy who couldn't speak except to repeat weather forecasts and other people's words...A beautiful little girl of seven who had been brain damaged by terrible parental beatings and was so ashamed because she couldn't learn to read...A violently angry ten-year-old who had seen his stepmother murder his father and had been sent from one foster home to... (more)

The Very Worst Thing

by Torey L. Hayden

David doesn't belong anywhere. He isn't good at school, or talking to people, or making friends. He's been in six different foster homes, and he can't really remember his parents. It seems like he'll never have anything all his own. Then he finds an owl egg. With the help of Mab, the skinny "girl genius" of his class, he names it King Arthur and sets out to hatch and raise an owl of his very own. As they wait... (more)

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The Sunflower Forest

by Torey L. Hayden

Silver

by Norma Fox Mazer

My mother is determined that I will have a wonderful life -- better than her own. I guess she can't imagine what it is like for me, a kid from a trailer park, to transfer to the junior high school where all the rich kids go -- the kind of kids who come from homes where my mother works as a cleaning woman.... But somehow, miraculously, I've become part of a little clique of pretty and popular girls who have... (more)

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Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her

by Torey L. Hayden

One Child

by Torey L. Hayden

The Tiger's Child

by Torey L. Hayden

Beautiful Child

by Torey L. Hayden

Just Another Kid

by Torey L. Hayden

Murphy's Boy

by Torey L. Hayden

Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened

by Torey L. Hayden

Somebody Else's Kids

by Torey L. Hayden

The Very Worst Thing

by Torey L. Hayden

The Sunflower Forest

by Torey L. Hayden

Silver

by Norma Fox Mazer

Hidden Things

by Torey L. Hayden