Educateur d'enfants handicapés, l'auteur démontre que, aidés et compris, ces enfants perturbés peuvent redevenir "des enfants comme les autres".

Une enfant comme les autres

For the first time, Casey Watson's The Girl Without a Voice, Torey Hayden's Beautiful Child and Mary MacCracken's Lovey are combined in an exclusive e-book bundle. Discover the moving stories of three inspirational teachers as they try to pull their students out of the darkness.

 The Girl Without a Voice is the shocking story from bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson. Thirteen-year-old Imogen joins Casey's class and suffers from selective mutism - although her grandparents insist they have no idea why. Not content with the explanation that Imogen is just playing up, Casey starts digging and it's not long before she starts to discover a very different side to Imogen's character. After months of silence, Imogen utters her first, terrified, words to Casey: 'I thought she was going to burn me.'

 Internationally bestselling author Torey Haydon returns with Beautiful Child, a stunning and poignant account of an extraordinary teacher's determination never to abandon a child in need. Seven-year-old Venus Fox never spoke or listened. Yet an accidental playground 'bump' would release a rage frightening to behold. The school year that followed would prove to be one of the most trying, perplexing, and ultimately rewarding of Torey's career, as she struggled to reach a silent child in obvious pain.

 Mary MacCracken's deeply moving memoir Lovey is the account of eight-year-old Hannah, who joins Mary's class and retires to a cupboard, refusing to come out. Howling almost non-stop she was displaying the worst symptoms that Mary had ever seen. How could Mary help a child who had been shut up in closets and treated like an animal? How could she reach this lost girl?

Triumph Over Adversity 3-in-1 Collection

«Pourquoi tu t'en fais pour nous ? On n'est que les enfants des autres...»Qui sont ces «enfants des autres» à qui Torey porte un intérêt passionné ? Boo, un petit garçon de sept ans qui ne parle pas sauf pour répéter exactement les bulletins de météo et les phrases des autres («écholalie à retardement» disent les spécialistes). Lori, une petite fille de sept ans également, très sensible, le coeur sur la main, mais dont le cerveau a subi des lésions à cause de mauvais traitements infligés autrefois par son père. Lori se désole de ne pas pouvoir apprendre à lire. Les symboles écrits resteront inaccessibles à son intelligence. Tomaso, dix ans, garçon caractériel, asocial, qui a vu sa belle-mère tuer son père et son frère à coups de fusil et qu'on promène depuis d'un foyer nourricier à l'autre. Claudia, douze ans, adolescente timide, excellente élève d'une école privée catholique qu'elle doit quitter lorsqu'on découvre qu'elle est enceinte. Quatre enfants à problèmes envoyés dans la classe de Torey parce qu'on ne sait qu'en faire. Et pourtant, tous les quatre, avec l'aide d'une éducatrice hors pair avant tout soucieuse de les faire progresser et de favoriser leur adaptation sociale, vont former une sorte de famille où chacun apporte aux autres l'affection et la compréhension qu'il n'a pas trouvées ailleurs.

Les Enfants des autres

From bestselling author Torey Hayden comes a moving novel of loss and redemption.

 Abundance, Montana, once a lively mining town in the days of the wild west, is now not much more than a ghost town. Local girl, Dixie, a struggling single mother who has just lost her baby, tries to make ends meet while her feckless boyfriend Billy drifts from one job to another, always believing his next moneymaking scheme will be the winner.

 Above them in the magnificent mountains surrounding Abundance, jaded Hollywood actor Spencer Scott conceals himself from the paparazzi on the ranch that has been his pristine sanctuary until the arrival of his obnoxious, nine-year-old son.

 Then Billy puts into motion a plan almost too appalling to contemplate, and from which there is no escape. As all four are forced to confront the brutal reality of the Montana mountains, so too are they forced to face their damaged lives in this poignant novel.

Innocent Foxes - A Novel

Bestselling author Torey Hayden's novel is a fascinating study of a fractured family, a troubled child, and a psychiatrist's attempts to rescue them.

 Conor, aged nine, arrives in the play therapy room of child psychiatrist James Innes with the diagnosis "autistic". His mother Laura, an aloof, enigmatic novelist, can't handle him. His rancher father, embroiled in divorcing Laura, does not feel there is anything wrong with Conor.

 His six year old sister Morgana insists he really does see ghosts.

 As James becomes convinced Conor is not autistic, he is drawn first into Conor's strange world of "things the cat knows" and then into Morgana's stories of her friend the "Lion King".

 James is pulled most deeply, however, into Laura's world; at first that of a lonely, rather difficult woman and then, eventually, into the world of her imagination, an enthralling world that seems almost real - and that hides a terrible secret.

Overheard in a Dream

A stunning and poignant account of an extraordinary teacher's determination from the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestsellers The Tiger's Child and One Child.

 Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked in her own private world of shadows. But nothing in Torey Hayden's experience had prepared her for the nightmare Jadie revealed to her when finally persuaded to break her self-imposed silence. It was a story too painful, too horrific for Hayden's professional colleagues to acknowledge.

 But Torey Hayden could not close her ears. or her heart. A little girl was trapped in a living hell of unspeakable memories. And it would take every ounce of courage, compassion, and love that one remarkable teacher possessed to rid the "Ghost Girl" of the malevolent spirits that haunted her.

Ghost Girl - The true story of a child in desperate peril – and a teacher who saved her

« Je pleure jamais. [...] Si je pleure pas, ils savent pas que j'ai de la peine. Alors ils peuvent pas me faire du mal. Personne peut me faire pleurer non plus. Même mon papa quand il me bat. » 

À six ans, Sheila a déjà un lourd passé. Abandonnée par sa mère sur une aire d'autoroute, brutalisée par son père, elle ne connaît que la douleur et l'effroi. Le jour où elle bascule à son tour dans la violence en ligotant un camarade à un arbre pour y mettre le feu, elle est arrêtée par la police qui ne peut rien pour elle, pas plus que l'hôpital psychiatrique. 

C'est cette enfant sauvage, terrifiée et terrifiante, que Torey Hayden va petit à petit apprendre à apprivoiser et à aimer. Car derrière le masque de la peur se cache une petite fille intelligente et pleine de vie qui, en s'autorisant à pleurer, se donnera enfin le droit de rire.

L'enfant qui ne pleurait pas

From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes The Invisible Girl, a deeply moving true account of a young teen with a troubling obsession and an extraordinary educational psychologist's sympathy and determination to help. Eloise is a vibrant and charming young teen with a deeply caring nature, but she also struggles with a worrying delusion. She's been moved from home to home, and her social workers have difficulty dealing with her habit of running away. After experiencing violence, neglect and sexual abuse from people she should have been able to trust, Eloise has developed complex behavioural needs. She struggles to separate fact from fiction, leading to confusion for the social workers trying to help her. After Torey learns of Eloise's background she hopes that some gentle care and attention can help Eloise gain some sense of security in her life. Can Torey and the other social workers provide the loving attention that has so far been missing in Eloise's life, or will she run away from them too?

Une enfant comme les autres

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