ISBN: 0007218656
Author: Torey L. Hayden
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Element; 1st HarperElement Ei edition (June 1, 2006)
Pages: 512
Subcategory: Self-Help
Rating: 4.4
Votes: 782
Size Fb2: 1876 kb
Size ePub: 1333 kb
Size Djvu: 1584 kb
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Exclusive sample chapter. Sitting there amid the paraphernalia accumulated for the start of another school year, I stared out the window at the smokestack, dull and gray in the summer sunshine.
Exclusive sample chapter. I was coming to the nettling conclusion that I wasn’t a very well directed sort of person. I didn’t have a career so much as a series of collisions with interesting opportunities.
Just Another Kid book.
Just Another Kid is not just another book. This remarkable teacher’s memoir reminds us that love takes many forms. impossible to put down. The Washington Post). The world needs more like Torey Hayden. Enter for a chance to win an ebook of JUST ANOTHER KID featuring an excerpt of Torey Hayden's new book, LOST CHILD
Just Another Kid book. Enter for a chance to win an ebook of JUST ANOTHER KID featuring an excerpt of Torey Hayden's new book, LOST CHILD. From the bestselling author of One Enter for a chance to win an ebook of JUST ANOTHER KID featuring an excerpt of Torey Hayden's new book, LOST CHILD. From the bestselling author of One Child comes the true story of six children impossible to reach and the amazing teacher who embraced them all.
Just Another Kid is not just another book
Just Another Kid is not just another book. This remarkable teacher's memoir reminds us that love takes many forms. 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.
I had to go into the bedroom and rummage through the drawers and the closet to get my clothes for school because I hadn’t been thinking clearly enough the night before to get them out then. comfortably across the bed, the tension finally gone from her face, Ladbrooke never stirred. When I returned at 4:30, it was obvious Ladbrooke had only been up a short time. Her eyes were puffy from so much sleep. Her hair was uncombed. Still dressed only in her underwear and my Minnie Mouse T-shirt, she was sitting at the kitchen table with orange juice and an English muffin.
com User, September 13, 2017 Verified Purchase. I have read several of Torey Hayden's books and loved all of them. You can envision yourself in the classroom and become part of the childrens' lives. But this one focused mainly on one of the parents.
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Victoria Lynn Hayden, known as Torey L. Hayden (born 21 May 1951 in Livingston, Montana, .
Victoria Lynn Hayden, known as Torey L. is a special education teacher, university lecturer and writer of non-fiction books based on her real-life experiences with teaching and counseling children with special needs and also of fiction books. Subjects covered in her books include autism, Tourette syndrome, sexual abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome, and elective mutism (now called selective mutism), her specialty.
From the bestselling author of One Child 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.
From the bestselling author of One Child 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
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