Somebody Else's Kids: The True Story of Four Problem Children and One Extraordinary Teacher

Somebody Else's Kids: The True Story of Four Problem Children and One Extraordinary Teacher

<p><strong>"A heartwarming book full of tenderness." --<em>Library Journal</em></strong></p><p><strong>From the bestselling author of <em>One Child</em>, the true story of four problem children and one extraordinary teacher.</strong></p><p>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 children in great pain: a small boy who echoed other people's words and repeated weather forecasts; a beautiful seven-year-old girl whose brain was damaged by savage parental beatings; an angry and violent 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 and help them become a family.</p>