Somebody Else's Kids
The True Story of Four Problem Children and One Extraordinary Teacher
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · June 28, 2016
"A heartwarming book full of tenderness." --Library Journal From the bestselling author of One Child, the true story of four problem children and one extraordinary teacher.
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- Who it’s for
- A tender true story of a teacher meeting children in pain with patience and care.
- Themes
- Childhood trauma, Teacher-student care, Found family
- Genres
- Lives in Education, Teaching Methods, Social & Emotional Disabilities
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"A heartwarming book full of tenderness." --Library Journal From the bestselling author of One Child, the true story of four problem children and one extraordinary teacher. 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.
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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.
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A tender true story of a teacher meeting children in pain with patience and care.
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- Stories of teaching shaped by compassion amid difficult childhoods
Expect
- A candid, emotionally weighty account centered on care and connection
Where it sits
| Lives in Education | 47% |
|---|---|
| Teaching Methods | 27% |
| Social & Emotional Disabilities | 21% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in Education
- Personal Memoirs
- Disability Memoirs
- Special Education
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- Teaching Methods
- Child Abuse
- Family Learning
- Autism Spectrum
- Authors
- Torey Hayden
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- June 28, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Childhood trauma · Teacher-student care · Found family
- Reading lane
- Lives in Education