Tore Hayden books

I love her books - I'm only on my second one now and my teen daughters have already put in their requests to read it as well.

and it is great.... Torey Hayden There is her non fiction Ghost Girl (about a child with elective mutism and satanic abuse, who goes to foster care) One Child and Tiger's Child about a girl named Shelia who is abused and does some very serious things 1st book is about when she is in 1st grade and Torey gets her as a SpEd student, and the second is when Torey meets her a little later 12-14 years old I think and gets to spend time with her (Shelia is living a gropu home by then Somebody Else's Kids setting is one of her Special Ed classes, and some of the children are in foster care or adopted Just Another Kids working with 2-3 kids from war torn country who are living with relatives and once again one of the kids is a special needs adoption Beautiful Child about a child who is being rasied in an abusive environment and does end up in foster care...also she has 2 students who were adopted and have special needs.. Murphy's Boyabout a boy grouwing up in treatment centers because of abusive birth home Twilight Children one of the kids is very reactive after abusive kiddnapping by b-father who left her alone with a man who severely abused her....the child makes a lot of false aligations of abuse of psy hospital staff, teachers, b-mom and step dad and anyone she is around.... and her only currently in publication in English fiction is The Very Worst Thing the main character is a boy in foster care .....really positive look at foster care...great foster mom....does talk about the lonelyness and the moving issues and some things foster children may feel Torey was both a Special Ed teacher and a psychologist.....work with many special needs children through both jobs....

I have cried my way through evey one of her books except the non-fiction one... I'm heading to the library right after work to get it!

i just read twilight children,it was the only one hubby could find at the library.great reading,i could not put it down.now i want to read all her books if i can find them.

I agree i have started reading them. It really gives you the teachers perspective on what they have dealt with.

I read every one of her books, they are so good. Hard to not think of all those kids and hope they turned out relatively ok in the end.