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 Somebody Else's Kids - Torey Hayden
Description: ISBN 0007218664 / Author: Torey Hayden / Genre: Biography / From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers 'One Child', 'Ghost Girl' and ... more  Somebody Else's Kids - Torey Hayden ... 'Twilight Children' comes a heartbreaking story of one teacher's determination to turn a chaotic group of damaged children into a family. They were all just somebody else's kids - four problem children placed in Torey Hayden's class because nobody knew what else to do with them. They were a motley group of kids in great pain: a small boy who echoed other people's words and repeated weather forecasts; a beautiful seven-year-old girl brain damaged by savage parental beatings; an angry ten-year-old who had watched his stepmother murder his father; a shy twelve-year-old who had been cast out of Catholic school when she became pregnant. But they shared one thing in common: a remarkable teacher who would never stop caring - and who would share with them the love and understanding they had never known to help them become a family.Newest Review: ... is unable to learn to read because of the damage to her brain and finds this frustrating and upsetting. Boo another 7 year ... more ... old who lives in a world of his own, does not speak except to repeat what other people have said or the weather forecasts he has heard on television. He is not toilet trained, unable to concentrate on any task and at times runs round and round the room uncontrollably.
Then there is Tomaso a 10 year old boy filled with anger and rage as a result of witnessing his stepmother shoot his father. He has gone from one foster home to another because no-one can control his rages. He still talks about his father as if he is a...more |
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Somebody Else's Kids - Torey Hayden: Not just someone else's kids! (710 words)
by AJ26 - written on 01/09/07 (Very useful, 303 readings)
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“Somebody Else’s Kids” by Torey Hayden is a fantastic book. It is the sort of book that once you start to read you just can’t put it down because you need to know what is going to happen. This is the true story of Torey Hayden an educational psychologist and a special-education teacher who works with children with problems in a school in America. This book tells the story of 4 very different children who all find themselves in Torey’s class. All have very different problems but share one thing in common and that is their teacher who shows them love and caring that has been missing in their lives. To Torey these children aren’t just “somebody else’s kids”, they ...
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