Just Another Kid: Each Was A Child No One Could Reach... Until One Amazing Teacher Embraced Them All [Paperback] Hayden, Torey

Torey Hayden walks into a classroom of six kids no one else wanted to teach: a boy who hasn't spoken in a year, a girl who screams and destroys everything in reach, a child who mutilates herself, another who sets fires. They're labeled unreachable, broken, too damaged for a regular classroom. Hayden — who's made a career of working with children in crisis — sees something else. Over the course of one school year, she builds trust where there was only fear, finds language where there was silence, and creates a fragile community out of isolation. This is raw, unsentimental memoir about the work of reaching kids society has written off. Hayden doesn't present miracles or easy answers, just the slow, difficult process of connection. For readers of *The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog* or anyone who believes no child is truly unreachable.