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Summary: heartwarming and poignant
Review: This is to me a perfect book! I have read all of Hayden's other books and this is my favorite. This book tells the usual story of a classfull of behaviorally challenged kids, and adds to it the story of one of the children's mothers Ladbrooke Taylor. The children and their various troubles and mishaps are easy to picture in your mind. While reading this and all of her other books I always feel as though I am there witnessing these events in person!
Torey manages to incorporate the heart wrenching story of mother Ladbrooke into the book without taking away from the story of the children. The most beautiful parts of this book occur when Ladbrooke reaches out to Torey for help, in particular a moment that occurs inside a women's bathroom stall after something happens to one of the children.
This book has some gut wrenching moments in it but not the nauseatingly horrific images and stories contained in Murphey's Boy and Ghost Girl. This makes it a more easy read than the above mentioned. I would recommend to first time Torey readers that they start with this book or Somebody Else's Kids.
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Summary: Torey Hayden's Best Book
Review: This is Torey's best book. If you are only going to read one of Torey's books this should be the one. All her books are great, but this is book stuck with me the longest. It was a great book.
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Summary: Sad and Mad
Review: Those are the two words that summed up this book for me. When I was through raeding it all I felt was sad and mad. There was a child in it (not mentioning his or her name) that the whole time I honestly felt needed a good spanking since obviously nothing else was going to work. It made me think back to each child who I wasn't able to help and the horrible things that had later on happened to them.Whle this book is good I recommend it in doses as it made me way too angry to read in one sitting. Your typical loveable Hayden children are here, but there is a viper among them
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Summary: This book is one you CANT put stop reading
Review: Torey Hayden is a master at writing about her experiences in the classroom..... I am a mother of a Special Needs child and found her book to be both informative, inspiring, and honest. This book is the type of book that you want to read all at once, yet you don't want it to end either. Torey Hayden keeps you interested and wondering what is going to happen next. I plan on purchasing all of her books as I am so happy with this first book of hers that I have read. You will not be disappointed if you buy this book....for anyone who is curious or has a real interest in what goes on in a Special Needs classroom... of course during this timeline and with these students and this teacher... you will be surprised at the honesty, reality and the love and warmth that radiate from the pages of this book. We can only hope and pray that all of the Special Needs teachers are exactly like Torey and that their love of children and interest in their future is a basis of what All special needs teachers have in their own hearts (which I believe is true). I can't say enough about this book, as it is truly a treasure to read and own.
Thank You Torey!
Susan
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Summary: An Extreamly Inspirational Book
Review: Torey Hayden is a powerful person and a great story teller. I have read all her books more than once, and I am only in 8th grade. After reading her books, they have made me think about becoming a physchologist, or some other type of person who works with austistic children, when I grow up. Torey is a super person and has made some peoples lives a lot happier than they were before.
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Summary: A Powerful Yet Bittersweet Story
Review: Torey Hayden once again has written a powerful, moving story. I read the story this past fall, and even now I still think about the people in the story and wonder where they are now. In this book Torey focuses primarily on her relationship with her teaching assistant, and I would have liked some more detailed information on the actual students. However, Torey still presents a gripping account of her students' struggles as well as her assistant's difficulties. Once again Torey helps bring about miraculous improvements in the lives of both her students and her assistant. However, one child has been so badly traumatized by her life in Northern Ireland that she deteriorates markedly while the other students blossom. Torey tries hard to save this child, but in the end her problems are too complex for a teacher to handle. I still wonder about what happened to this child, and I pray that perhaps someone, somewhere can help her. Torey has once again written a memorable book that will have a lasting impact on the readers.
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Summary: Uh, what about the title?
Review: Well, this book was altogether well done, but honestly the title, "Just Another Kid" would almost imply that it would be about the CHILDREN. They spend way too much time focused on the alcoholic woman in the book instead of the actual students, who were far more interesting. I would recommend other Torey Hayden books over this one.
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