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Just Another Kid

By: Torey Hayden

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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 unable to speak. With compassion, rare insight, and masterful storytelling, teacher Torey L. Hayden once again touches our hearts with her account of the miracles that can happen in her class of "special" children.

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Harper Collins

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0380705648

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9780380705641

Murphy's Boy

By: Torey Hayden

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Murphy's Boy

By: Torey Hayden

When Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricaded under a table. Desperately afraid of the world around him, he hadn’t spoken a word in eight years. He was considered hopeless, incurable, but Hayden refused to believe it. With unwavering devotion and gentle, patient love, she set out to free him—and slowly uncovered a shocking, violent history and a terrible secret that an unfeeling bureaucracy had simply filed away and forgotten. But she never gave up on this tragic “lost case.” For a trapped and frightened boy desperately needed her help—and she knew in her heart she could not rest easy until she had rescued him from the darkness.

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0062844423

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9780062844422

Tiger's Child

The Story of a Gifted, Troubled Child and the Teac

By: Torey Hayden

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Tiger's Child

The Story of a Gifted, Troubled Child and the Teac

By: Torey Hayden

From acclaimed author Torey Hayden comes a relatable memoir about a special education teacher who recounts a transforming and transformative relationship with a former student who overcame abuse. Special education teacher Torey Hayden's first book, One Child, was an international bestseller, thrilling readers on every continent. Their hearts were captured by Sheila, a silent, troubled girl who had been abandoned on a highway by her mother and abused by her alcoholic father, and who refused to speak. As Hayden writes in the prologue to this book, "This little girl had a profound effect on me. Her courage, her resilience, and her inadvertent ability to express that great, gaping need to be loved that we all feel—in short, her humanness—brought me into contact with my own." Since then, Hayden has gone on to write books about many of her students, but her fans continue to ask her, "What happened to Sheila?" The Tiger's Child is her response. Here Hayden tells how Sheila, now a young woman, finally came to terms with her nightmare childhood. When Hayden was working on One Child, she showed the manuscript to Sheila, then a teenager, and was astonished to find that Sheila remembered almost nothing of her troubled younger years. She had no recollection of her many clashes with her teacher as Hayden tried to break through her emotional pain. And although Hayden had managed to get Sheila to communicate and become an active and lively child, Sheila's home life was still very troubled. Her father had been sent to prison when she was eight and Sheila had run away from a series of foster homes until finally she was placed in a children's home. But as Hayden continued to renew her relationship with the teenage Sheila, the memories slowly came back, bringing with them feelings of abandonment and hostility. Overwhelmed by the intensity of her awakening emotions, Sheila was driven to suicidal despair. The Tiger's Child is the touching, inspiring story of how a maturing Sheila came to perceive her mother not as a monster who willfully cast off her eldest child, but as a weak, forlorn, ordinary human being. Able to appreciate her own strength and resilience, Sheila at last is free to overcome the haunting legacy of child abuse.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439107181

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9781439107188

Beautiful Child

By: Torey L. Hayden

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Beautiful Child

By: Torey L. Hayden

This is a poignant account of a teacher's extraordinary efforts to break through a young student's self-imposed silence.

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HarperCollins UK

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0007207638

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9780007207633

The Very Worst Thing

By: Torey L. Hayden,Torey Hayden

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The Very Worst Thing

By: Torey L. Hayden,Torey Hayden

David has never had a permanent home or a real friend, but when he decides to try to hatch an owl egg with the help of a classmate, his life slowly begins to change for the better.

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Harper Collins

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0060297921

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9780060297923

One Child

By: Torey Hayden

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One Child

By: Torey 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 skin. She cried and cried and cried. I held her and rocked the chair back and on its rear legs, feeling my arms and chest get damp from the tears and her hot breath and the smallness of the room.

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Harper Collins

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0380542625

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9780380542628

Just Another Kid

By: Torey Hayden

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Just Another Kid

By: Torey Hayden

Just Another Kid is not just another book. This remarkable teacher's memoir reminds us that love takes many forms." -The New York Times From the bestselling author of One Child comes the true story of six children impossible to reach and the amazing teacher who embraced them all. Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could handle—three recent arrivals from battle-torn 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 unable to speak. With compassion, rare insight, and masterful storytelling, teacher Torey Hayden once again touches our hearts with her account of the miracles that can happen in her class of “special” children.

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HarperCollins

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0062844431

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9780062844439

Somebody Else's Kids

By: Torey Hayden

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Somebody Else's Kids

By: Torey 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 another . . . A shy twelve-year-old from a Catholic school which put her out when she became pregnant . . . "What do we matter?" "Why do you care?" They were four problem children-put in Torey Hayden's class because no one else knew what to do with them. Together, with the help of a remarkable teacher who cared too much to ever give up, they became almost a family, able to give each other the love and understanding they had found nowhere else.

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Harper Collins

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038059949X

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9780380599493

Twilight Children

By: Torey L. Hayden

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Twilight Children

By: Torey L. Hayden

Written by the author of the bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl, this work is a memoir of three people's - two children trapped in a prison of silence and a woman suffering in the twilight of her years - victimisation and abuse, and their heartbreaking but ultimately successful steps to recovery.

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HarperCollins UK

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0007198205

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9780007198207

Overheard in a Dream

By: Torey L. Hayden

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Overheard in a Dream

By: Torey L. Hayden

Conor, aged nine, arrives in the play therapy room of child psychiatrist James Innes with the diagnosis 'autistic'. As James is pulled more and more deeply into the mysterious workings of this family, he discovers a world where what is imagined seems as real as what is true, a world that hides a terrible secret.

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0007260938

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9780007260935

Just Another Kid

By: Torey L. Hayden

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Just Another Kid

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A therapist who works with emotionally disturbed children, relates the story of her struggle to help three of those children, with the help of one of the children's desperate alcoholic mother

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Putnam Publishing Group

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0399133038

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9780399133039

Silent Boy

He Was a Frightened Boy Who Refused to Speak - Until a Teacher's Love Broke Through the Silence

By: Torey L. Hayden

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Silent Boy

He Was a Frightened Boy Who Refused to Speak - Until a Teacher's Love Broke Through the Silence

By: Torey L. Hayden

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000725881X

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The Tiger's Child

By: Torey L. Hayden

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The Tiger's Child

By: Torey L. Hayden

Sheila was a deeply disturbed six-year-old when she came into Tory Hayden's life. Seven years later, Sheila is back, still troubled and searching for answers.

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0007206976

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9780007206971

Twilight Children

Three Voices No One Heard Until Someone Listened

By: Torey L. Hayden

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Twilight Children

Three Voices No One Heard Until Someone Listened

By: Torey L. Hayden

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller One Child, comes a poignant memoir of three people's victimisation and abuse - and their heartbreaking but ultimately successful steps to recovery, with the help of Torey Hayden, an educational psychologist.

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HarperThorsons

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0007219903

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9780007219902

The Very Worst Thing

By: Torey L. Hayden,Torey Hayden

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The Very Worst Thing

By: Torey L. Hayden,Torey Hayden

David has never had a permanent home or a real friend, but when he decides to try to hatch an owl egg with the help of a classmate, his life slowly begins to change for the better.

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0060297921

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Murphy's Boy

He was a Frightened Boy who Refused to Speak - Until a Teacher's Love Broke Through the Silence

By: Torey L. Hayden

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Murphy's Boy

He was a Frightened Boy who Refused to Speak - Until a Teacher's Love Broke Through the Silence

By: Torey L. Hayden

Gifted young adults that's been hand picked to protect the Earth who never given up on their goals and not letting anybody bring them down even in the darkest of times.

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000721863X

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Book's by Torey L. Hayden

Just Another Kid

Just Another Kid

Murphy's Boy

Murphy's Boy

Tiger's Child

Tiger's Child

Beautiful Child

Beautiful Child

The Very Worst Thing

The Very Worst Thing

One Child

One Child

Just Another Kid

Just Another Kid

Somebody Else's Kids

Somebody Else's Kids

Twilight Children

Twilight Children

Overheard in a Dream

Overheard in a Dream

Just Another Kid

Just Another Kid

Silent Boy

Silent Boy

The Tiger's Child

The Tiger's Child

Twilight Children

Twilight Children

The Very Worst Thing

The Very Worst Thing

Murphy's Boy

Murphy's Boy

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