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Summary: This was one of the most touching books I have ever read.
Review: "The Tiger's Child" was a very well written and informative book. Though it was very sad to know that children are actually treated this way. I would recommend this book to just about anyone who likes books about real life or anyone who likes children in general
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Summary: The Tiger's Child is the sequel we've all been waiting for.
Review: A classroom teacher who has witnessed daily the deprivations and horrors of a growing number of children, I fell in love with Sheila in "One Child." In her equally moving sequel, Torey Hayden, has given us the gift of following Sheila through adolescence and into adulthood. Definitely not a "happily every after," Hayden gives her usual moving, gripping, saga of a child forced to face and overcome horrors that most of us can scarcely imagine
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Summary: A song for the human soul
Review: Absolutely incredible. I have read it five times since purchasing it a week ago and I am still at a loss for words
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Summary: Sobering & Honest
Review: Having read One Child over and over and over again starting at the age of ten, I was euphoric to come upon The Tiger's Child in a bookstore 15 years later. I had wondered about Sheila my whole life, worked for several years in a preschool in great part due to that astonishing tale. I believe all the magic that was in the first book, because that is the truth about the reality of children. The Tiger's Child was somehow more sad, even if in much subtler & less horrifying ways than the first book. Sheila had left her childhood, and Torey L. Hayden (who was just 24 in the first book!) was not in a position to help her to quite the extent that she had been able to in the earlier years. Torey L. Hayden writes very honestly and does not attempt to soften any of the difficulties in this later period. Her work as a teacher is remarkable & awe-inspiring... I just wish that somehow the world had continued to provide for Sheila as much as Torey had been able to in One Child. I ache that the extraordinary, brilliant light that was Sheila was not left with as purely a happpy ending as the first book leads us to believe is possible...but I strongly recommend reading both stories.
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Summary: Satisfyingly realistic
Review: I first read One Child when I was thirteen, and it was a powerful force in my life, impacting me more deeply than any other story I have ever read. I related somewhat at thirteen to her life at six, and have read the book millions of times since, always wondering what became of Sheila and what her life might be like now. So when I discovered this sequal yesterday, it was like a goldmine. My biggest emotional reaction was deep sorrow, because One Child WAS like a fairy tale that had led us to believe that Sheila would probably be all right now that Torey had given her the wings to fly. But reality tended to beat Sheila up one side and down the other like a spiked club, and she no longer had anyone to help her through it. I look at Sheila as having lived her life very much alone with the exception of the five months in Torey's classroom in Marysville. Is five months really enough to build a sturdy enough platform for this kid? All kids need constant care and attention; kids in healthy households living comparatively idyllic lives still clamor for more and more attention, love and care. Six is not really big enough to take on the world and conquer it and all its horrors alone, it is barely big enough to tie one's own shoes and remember where your mittens are! I can completely see Sheila's point when she accused Torey of offering her a world full of color and warmth and then sweeping it all away. Sheila was abused before Torey came, while Torey was there, and after she left. Torey's subsequent disappointment at finding this relatively human teenager, including dyed hair and common teenish speech patterns, is naive on her part. What did she expect? She hadn't been there; when Sheila was being abused and shifting around in foster homes, where was Torey, and what right did she have to judge Sheila now, at a still-tender thirteen? What right did she have to expect ANYTHING? Sure, it appears as if Torey is this wonderful goddess-type teacher that goes the 800 extra miles for Sheila, but Torey had never had to deal with Sheila's life on a day-to-day basis, could have no idea. The real hero is Sheila, who IS a survivor, who did remarkably well with herself considering she's sprung from horrors most of us can hardly imagine experiencing ourselves. She shouldn't have to feel grateful for what Torey's done for her; as a child, it was the least she could expect from somebody. It is Sheila who created herself, and what an extraordinary person.
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Summary: Depressing
Review: I found this book in short depressing. That wonderful little girl we meet in One Child is long gone. She feels confused and angry at the world. To be honest I can see why she does. Not only her mother leaving her but her teacher as well? And then living with her good for nothing father. Probably being abused at foster homes... the list goes on and on. As far as I'm concerned she does have a reaason to rant and rave at the world. Also time and time again she mentions how things seemed different to her when she read One Child before it was published. It honestly made me wonder about if Mrs. Hayden is stretching any truths there. After all, we remember what we want about history. Or rather history is written by the victors, not the losers. I would be rather interested to reaad how Shelia would remember that time and compare it.This story just hit me as wrong. Maybe we saw more reality then we did in her other books. I'm not sure. All I know is this book didn't sit well with me. I put it down several times and finished it more out of not having anything else to reaad then any other reason
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Summary: Not as Good as One Child
Review: I found this book not as engaging as "One Child" because it didn't have as much of the raw emotion in the earlier book. I found I couldn't feel as much empathy for sheila as compared to the other book. But it was great to find out what happens to Sheila, and on it's own it's still a good piece of work.
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Summary: a rollercoaster ride
Review: I have read all her books. Once I read one, I had to get the others. It couldn't believe that there are children out there who are treated without any respect. What has this world come to? I'm reading "Just Another Kid". It's the last one that I haven't finished reading yet. Each book is packed with so much emotions that you go from being happy to sad to anger. I would definitly recommend these books to anyone whom is willing to go on a roller coaster ride.
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Summary: continuous
Review: I loved this book. I'm really not into reading at all, but my current boyfriend is an extreme bookworm, so he's definitly rubbed off on me. I've had this book lying around for 4yrs and I finally picked it up. Once I did not want to put it down, I'd be in school thinking about this book, at work wondering what's going to happen next? *Where's Shiela? What's she thinking? These questions and more would repeatedly run through my mind. I wish there was continuience (spelling!) of this book, I'd definitly read that one.
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Summary: Wonderfully written, Emotionally Represented
Review: I read "One Child" at the suggestion of a friend. I couldn't put it down. After reading it, I asked if there were others. I found "The Tigers Child" and couldn't stop reading, just to find out what happened to Sheila!!!!! Both books were well written, emotionally charged and truly enlightening. It's so hard to believe what can happen to children. It definately should be mandatory reading for everyone with children and those thinking about becoming parents.!!!!
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