Somebody Else's Kids - Softcover

Torey L. Hayden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 038059949X ISBN 13: 9780380599493

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 1982

Synopsis

"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.

About this title

About the Author:

Torey Hayden is an educational psychologist and a former special education teacher who since 1979 has chronicled her struggles in the classroom in a succession of bestselling books. She lives and writes in the U.K.

Review:

"A heartwarming book full of tenderness."-- "Library Journal""Hayden is a fine storyteller, recounting the touching bonds that form among the children and between Hayden and her students."-- "The Washington Post"

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 038059949X
• ISBN 13: 9780380599493
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 333