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"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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Somebody Else's Kids, Torey L. Hayden
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Somebody Else's Kids
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Torey L. Hayden
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0007848900
- ISBN13
- 9780007848904
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, True Stories, Biographies, Psychological Topics, Pedagogy, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Murders, School, Children, Stories, Violence, Pregnancy, Based on True Events, Experiences, Trauma, Special Education, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Brain Damage
- First published
- 1981
- Original title
- Semebody Else´s Kids
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- "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.