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Após um período de afastamento do ensino, Torey Hayden vê-se novamente responsável por uma turma de crianças com necessidades especiais. Desta vez, porém, o maior desafio será a mãe de uma delas, uma mulher que Torey ajudará a afastar do lugar de sofrimento donde não parecia possível resgatá-la, relembrando-nos através da sua história que, com a dose certa de amor e compreensão, não existem causas perdidas. ... Read more

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Silent Boy: He Was a Frightened Boy Who Refused to Speak - Until a Teacher's Love Broke Through the Silence, 400 Pages.SynopsisFrom the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Beautiful Girl comes a heartbreaking story of a boy trapped in silence and the teacher who rescued him. When special education teacher Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricaded under a table. Desperately afraid of the world around him, he hadn't spoken a word in eight years. He was considered hopeless, incurable. But Hayden refused to believe it, though she realised it might well take a miracle to break through the walls he had built around himself. With unwavering devotion and gentle, patient love, she set out to free him -- and slowly uncovered a shocking violent history and a terrible secret that an unfeeling bureaucracy had simply filed away and forgotten. Torey refused to give up on this tragic "lost case." For a trapped and frightened boy desperately needed her help -- and she knew in her heart she could not rest easy until she had rescued him from the darkness. ... Read more

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Includes: R. Belcher, Coming Home, D. Francis, Come to Grief, L. spencer, Camden Summer, and R. Somerlott, Blaze. ... Read more

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First Avon Paperback Printing 1982 with 331 pgs. + Epilogue. 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 brain 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 love and understanding they had never known to help them become a family. ... Read more