Torey Hayden's books are all extraordinary tales of inspiration and this is no exception. Just Another Kid follows the stories of six children, each with very different problems. All of them in need of serious help, care and understanding to overcome their severe issues. This book focuses a lot on the mother of one of the children who becomes Torey's classroom assistant despite her personal battle with alcohol, providing an interesting angle to the story.
Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could handle three recent arrivals from battle-torn Northern Ireland, badly traumatised by the horrors of war; an eleven-year-old boy, who only knew life inside an institution; an excitable girl, 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. But Torey's most daunting challenge turns out to be Leslie's mother, a stunning young doctor who soon discovers that she needs Torey's love and help just as much as the children.
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Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could handle three recent arrivals from battle-torn Northern Ireland, badly traumatised by the horrors of war; an eleven-year-old boy, who only knew life inside an institution; an excitable girl, 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. But Torey's most daunting challenge turns out to be Leslie's mother, a stunning young doctor who soon discovers that she needs Torey's love and help just as much as the children.
Just Another Kid features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
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Just Another Kid was written by Torey Hayden and published by Harpercollins Publishers
