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Somebody Else’s Kids: They were problem children no one wanted … until one teacher took them to her heart

By (author) Torey Hayden

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From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of one teacher's determination to turn a chaotic group of damaged children into a family. 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 kids in great pain: a small boy who echoed other people's words and repeated weather forecast; a beautiful seven-year-old girl brain damaged by savage parental beatings; an angry 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 to help them become a family.

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 1 Oct 2007
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 400
Dimensions | 178 x 111 x 27mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 280g
ISBN | 978-0-0072-5880-2
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / educators


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