Just Another Kid

Just Another Kid

• Author: Hayden, Torey.
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Pages: 432
• Publication Date: 1989-04-03
• Edition: New Ed
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• MSRP: 0.00
• ISBN13: 9780380705641
• ISBN: 0380705648
• Language: en
• Store Location: Biography
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<p>From the bestselling author of <em>One Child</em> comes these remarkable stories of six traumatized children who appeared to have no hope for the future and the incredible teacher who would break through their shells. <strong><em></em></strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong></strong> </p><p><strong></strong> </p><p> </p>