# Somebody Else's Kids

**Author(s):** Torey Hayden
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**Genres:** parenting
**Pages:** 340
**Publisher:** Harper Collins
**Published:** Sun Aug 01 1982 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780380599493
**ISBN-10:** 038059949X
**ASIN:** 038059949X
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/somebody-elses-kids

## Description

"Were all just somebody else's kids . . . " 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 stepmother murder his father and had been sent from one foster home to another . . . A shy twelve-year-old from a Catholic school which put her out when she became pregnant . . . "What do we matter?" "Why do you care?" They were four problem children-put in Torey Hayden's class because no one else knew what to do with them. Together, with the help of a remarkable teacher who cared too much to ever give up, they became almost a family, able to give each other the love and understanding they had found nowhere else.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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