From the author of the phenomenal Sunday Times bestsellers 'One Child' and 'Ghost Girl', comes a startling and poignant memoir of three people's victimisation and abuse - and their heartbreaking but ultimately successful steps to recovery, with the help of Torey Hayden, an extraordinary teacher.
Two children trapped in a prison of silence and a woman suffering in the twilight of her years - these are the cases that would test the extraordinary courage, compassion and skill of Torey Hayden and ultimately reaffirm her faith in the indomitable strength of the human spirit.
While working in the children's psychiatric ward of a large hospital, Torey was introduced to seven-year-old Cassandra, a child who had been kidnapped by her father and was found dirty, starving and picking though rubbish bins to survive. She refused to speak, so Torey could only imagine what she'd been through. Drake, by contrast, was a charismatic four-year-old who managed to participate fully in his pre-school class without uttering a single word. Then, there was Gerda, eighty-two, who had suffered a massive stroke and was unwilling to engage in conversation with anyone. Although Torey had never worked with adults, she agreed to help when all other efforts had failed.

TWILIGHT CHILDREN PB

Biographies & Memoirs

Hayden, Torey

Community & Culture

HarperElement

This beautiful and deeply moving tale recounts educational psychologist Torey Hayden's battle to unlock the emotions of a troubled and sexually abused child who, with the help of Hayden, was finally able to overcome her dark past and realise her full potential. Six-year-old Sheila was abandoned by her mother on a highway when she was four. A survivor of horrific abuse, she never spoke, never cried, and was placed in a class for severely retarded children after committing an atrocious act of violence against another child. Everyone thought Sheila was beyond salvation -- except her teacher, Torey Hayden. With patience, skill, and abiding love, she fought long and hard to release a haunted little girl from her secret nightmare -- and nurture the spark of genius she recognised trapped within Sheila's silence. This is the remarkable story of their journey together -- an odyssey of hope, courage, and inspiring devotion that opened the heart and mind of one lost child to a new world of discovery and joy.

One Child

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Element Books

Beautiful Child: The Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her

Self-Help

Harper/Element

Bestselling author Torey Hayden's novel is a fascinating study of a fractured family, a troubled child, and a psychiatrists attempts to rescue them.Conor, aged nine, arrives in the play therapy room of child psychiatrist James Innes with the diagnosis "autistic". His mother Laura, an aloof, enigmatic novelist, can't handle him. His rancher father, embroiled in divorcing Laura, does not feel there is anything wrong with Conor.His six year old sister Morgana insists he really does see ghosts.As James becomes convinced Conor is not autistic, he is drawn first into Conor's strange world of "things the cat knows" and then into Morgana's stories of her friend the "Lion King".James is pulled most deeply, however, into Laura's world; at first that of a lonely, rather difficult woman and then, eventually, into the world of her imagination, an enthralling world that seems almost real - and that hides a terrible secret.

Overheard in a Dream

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Harper

Paperback. Pub Date :2008-12-01 Pages: 464 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK Bestselling author Torey Haydens new novel poignantly tells of a daughters attempt to grow up in the shadow of her mothers haunted past Warm. melancholy and evocatively rendered. this book captures the essence of a family touched by sadness.A haunting tale of a family who cant escape the consequences of their mothers tormented childhood. Hayden. a master storyteller. again turns her talent to fiction in this novel that combines a psychological thriller with a nuanced family drama.Lesleys Hungarian mother Mara - charming. childlike. lovable -. is traumatized by her adolescent Holocaust experiences.Though her American husband and daughters try to live a normal life. Mara holds them thrall to her moods and quirks Lesley struggles to understand. but dealing with Mara is a severe strain which...

SUNFLOWER FOREST PB

Xjust Another Kid Pb

Harper Collins Promotion

Reconnecting with the girl she had written about in One Child, the author helps a teenaged Sheila deal with blocked memories, overwhelming negative feelings, and thoughts of suicide before finally overcoming her legacy of child abuse. 15,000 first printing. Reader's Digest Cond Bks. Lit Guild Alt.

The Tiger's Child: The Story of a Gifted, Troubled Child and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up On (One Child)

Parenting & Relationships

Scribner

The Very Worst Thing

David doesn't belong anywhere.
He isn't good at school, or talking to people, or making friends. He's been in six different foster homes, and he can't really remember his parents. It seems like he'll never have anything all his own.
Then he finds an owl egg. With the help of Mab, the skinny "girl genius" of his class, he names it King Arthur and sets out to hatch and raise an owl of his very own. As they wait for King Arthur to hatch and as they raise the funny-looking owl chick, Mab and David become true friends.
But Mab's father thinks they should return King Arthur to the wild. Can David give up his owl? Is it even the right thing to do? What can David do if the worst thing of all happens?

Children's Books

Animals

Harpercollins

David doesn't belong anywhere.He isn't good at school, or talking to people, or making friends. He's been in six different foster homes, and he can't really remember his parents. It seems like he'll never have anything all his own.Then he finds an owl egg. With the help of Mab, the skinny "girl genius" of his class, he names it King Arthur and sets out to hatch and raise an owl of his very own. As they wait for King Arthur to hatch and as they raise the funny-looking owl chick, Mab and David become true friends.But Mab's father thinks they should return King Arthur to the wild. Can David give up his owl? Is it even the right thing to do? What can David do if the worst thing of all happens?

From the bestselling author of One Child comes this amazing, true story of a mute and withdrawn seven—year—old girl and the special education teacher determined never to abandon a child in need.
Seven-year-old Venus Fox never spoke, never listened, never even acknowledged the presence of another human being in the room with her. Yet an accidental playground “bump” would release a rage frightening to behold. The school year that followed would be one of the most trying, perplexing, and ultimately rewarding of Torey Hayden’s career, as she struggled to reach a silent child in obvious pain. It would be a strenuous journey beset by seemingly insurmountable obstacles and darkened by truly terrible revelations—yet encouraged by sometimes small, sometimes dazzling breakthroughs—as a dedicated teacher remained committed to helping a “hopeless” girl, and patiently and lovingly leading her toward the light of a new day.

Beautiful Child

Psychology & Counseling

William Morrow Paperbacks

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TWILIGHT CHILDREN PB

One Child

Beautiful Child: The Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her

Overheard in a Dream

SUNFLOWER FOREST PB

Xjust Another Kid Pb

The Tiger's Child: The Story of a Gifted, Troubled Child and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up On (One Child)

The Very Worst Thing

The Very Worst Thing

Beautiful Child