Somebody Else's Kids

They were just 'somebody else's kids' - four problem children put in Torey Hayden's class because no one else knew what to do with them: A small seven-year-old boy who couldn't speak except to repeat weather forecasts and other people's words. A beautiful little girl of seven who had been brain damaged by terrible parental beatings and was so ashamed because she couldn't learn to read. A violently angry ten-year-old who had seen his stepmaother murder his father and had been sent from on efoster home to another. A shy twelve-year-old from a Catholic school that expelled her when she became pregnant. 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.