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41 reviews
Torey L. Hayden

Harper Element, 2005

A Story of a Truly Dedicated Teacher and Inspirational
This is the sequel to One Child so it's best to read that one first. This book is fantastic. I loved it. It continue's the story about Shelia as a teenager and how she had blocked a lot of her childhood out. Her memories came back the more she talked with Torey. Also worked with Torey with some disturbed kids which was good for awhile. This book tells how Shelia overcame her very abusive ...

SOMEBODY ELSE\'S KIDS: THEY WERE PROBLEM CHILDREN NO ONE WANTED! UNTIL ONE TEACHER TOOK THEM TO HER HEART
TOREY L. HAYDEN

HARPER ELEMENT, 2007

One Child
Torey L Hayden

G P Putnam, 1980

A teacher's struggle to save a gifted and troubled girl.

Hidden Things
Torey L. Hayden

Harper, 2008

One Child

167 reviews
Torey L. Hayden

Avon, 1981

Interesting but Sad
This is one I could not put down. Possibly Torey's best book! Shelia, a bright 6-year-old girl who tied up a 4-year-old and set him on fire and was put in Torey's "crazy kid" class until a space opened up in the State mental hospital for her. She had a high IQ, was a bed wetter, had an abusive, alcoholic father and was abandoned on a freeway by her mother who kept her younger brother. She ...

Murphy's Boy

34 reviews
Torey L. Hayden

Tandem Library, 1999

will make you angry
Teacher Torey Hayden takes an unusual case, a fifteen year old boy named Kevin who doesn't speak, or is "electively mute." With Torey's help, Kevin begins to speak again. His progress at the hospital, however, is erratic because of horrifying circumstances that brought him into custodial care. His sister was beaten to death by their alcoholic father, and the father also physically abused Kevin, ...

Somebody Else's Kids

54 reviews
Torey L. Hayden

Avon, 1982

somebody else's kids
Torey Hayden, author of "One Child," charts a year in the life of a special education classroom with some unusual and unforgettable students. They include Claudia, an academically gifted, pregnant twelve-year-old; Tomaso, who witnessed the death of his father; Lori, a girl whose abuse left her unable to read and write; and Boo, an autistic boy with a fondness for giving weather reports. How ...

Just Another Kid

29 reviews
Torey L. Hayden

Putnam Adult, 1988

"Miracles can happen for the most hopeless lost causes"
I am also the mother of a "Special Needs" child; I happened to discover "Twilight Children", Torey Hayden's most recent book by chance in a local bookstore. I was spellbound and couldn't put it down, and when I had read that book, I ordered everything else she ever wrote from Amazon (how's that for a recommendation?). This book, (and I say this without exaggeration) literally made me gasp at ...

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

70 reviews
Torey L. Hayden

Little Brown & Co (T), 1991

An Unforgettable Read
This was a fascinating story that I stayed up late to finish in one night. When a Special Education teacher begins to see clues that Jadie, one of her students, might be the victim of possible ritualistic sexual abuse, she digs deeper and ultimately must come forward with her suspicions. This is a haunting, riveting read!

Mortal Fear/Just Another Kid/Rockets' Red Glare/Brownstone Facade (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 3: ...
Robin Cook, Torey L. Hayden, ...

Reader's Digest Association, 1988

MORTAL FEAR By Robin Cook: Death by natural causes. So state the autopsy reports on several patients at a Boston clinic. But to Dr. Jason Howard, a physician at the clinic, there are indications that those deaths were disturbingly unnatural. And why did a brilliant scientist, known for his advanced research in genetic engineering, die suddenly of symptoms common to a person twice his age? Something--or someone--sinister is behind those deaths, ...

The Tiger's Child/Hope Against Hope/The Drover's Wife (Reader's Digest Condensed Books in Large Type, Volume ...
Torey L. Hayden, Susan B. Kelly, ...

Reader's Digest Association, 1995

Large print condensed versions of The Tiger's Child, Hope against Hope and The Drover's Wife.

Beautiful Child

39 reviews
Torey L. Hayden

Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2006

Looking at others through different eyes
For those who have already read One Child, it may be more appropriate to rate Beautiful Child as a 4 star book, given that in many ways the two books are very similar. However once again it is a compelling read and very difficult to put down - like One Child, I was through this book in a couple of days. And again, this is the story of the development of a class of children with major ...

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