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One Child
Sheila was wild, unreachable, abused--and a genius. She ws a child lost until a brilliant young teacher reached out.
Tiger's Child
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 lov...
Somebody Else's Kids
From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of one teacher's determination to turn a chaotic group of damaged children into a family.
Murphy's Boy
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.
Ghost Girl
An account of a teacher's determination from the author of the No1 Sunday Times bestsellers "Tiger's Child and One Child."
The Sunflower Forest
Bestselling author Torey Hayden’s novel poignantly tells of a daughter’s attempt to grow up in the shadow of her mother’s haunted past. Warm, melancholy and evocatively rendered this book captures the essence of a family touched by sadness.
The Invisible Girl
From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes The Invisible Girl, a deeply moving true account of a young teen with a troubling obsession and an extraordinary educational psychologist's sympathy and determination to help. Eloise is a vibrant and charming young teen with a deeply caring nature, but she also struggles with a worrying delusion. She’s been moved from home to home, and her social workers have difficulty dealing with her habit of running away. After experiencing violence, neglect and sexual abuse from people she should have been able to trust, Eloise has developed complex behavioural needs. She struggles to separate fact from fiction, leading to confusion for the social workers trying to help her. After Torey learns of Eloise's background she hopes that some gentle care and attention can help Eloise gain some sense of security in her life. Can Torey and the other social workers provide the loving attention that has so far been missing in Eloise's life, or will she run away from them too?
Beautiful Child
This is a poignant account of a teacher's extraordinary efforts to break through a young student's self-imposed silence. Originally published: New York: William Morrow, 2002.
Summary of Torey L. Hayden's Ghost Girl
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Glen Tinbergen, the principal, was welcoming. He told me that the staff would meet me at lunchtime to introduce me to them, but for now, I was anxious to get to my room. It was ready for me. #2 I had a new classroom on the second floor, last room on the left. It was a spacious corner room with large windows that gave a panoramic view of the snowy schoolyard and the ancient elms bordering it. The four children in my class were beautiful. #3 I met with Reuben, who was diagnosed with autism. He was able to speak, use the toilet, and perform academic feats with considerable skill, but only within the confines of his handicap. He had been to California, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina to participate in programs designed to modify his more difficult behaviors. #4 I had worked with elective mute children for the past ten years, and when I got a new student named Jadie, she was unlike anything I had ever seen before. She was hunched over and had her arms crossed under her, as if she were clutching an unwieldy load of books.
Just Another Kid
"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.
