Les enfants du crepuscule

«Venus ne parle pas. Elle ne prononce pas un mot. Nulle part. Et avec personne...»La petite Venus, 7 ans, s'est réfugiée dans un mutisme qui prend fin, sous la forme de hurlements stridents d'une violence inouïe, uniquement lorsque ses camarades l'approchent de trop près. Parmi les élèves en difficulté de la classe de Torey Hayden, Venus se révèle vite être celle qui va nécessiter le plus d'attention.Qu'a-t-il bien pu lui arriver ? Que déduire de ce silence et de ces accès de brutalité ? Que faire pour venir en aide à cette enfant en proie à d'indicibles souffrances ? Un témoignage saisissant, empli de compassion et de sensibilité.

L'enfant blessée

From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes Lost Girl, a poignant and deeply moving account of a lost little girl and an extraordinary educational psychologist's courage and determination. Jessie is nine years old and looks like the perfect little girl, with red hair, green eyes and a beguiling smile. She even has a talent for drawing gorgeous and intricate pictures. But Jessie also knows how to get her own way and will lie, scream, shout and hurt to get just exactly what she wants. Her parents say they can't take her back, and her social workers struggle to deal with her destructive behaviour and wild mood swings. After her chaotic passage through numerous foster placements, Jessie has finally received a diagnosis of an attachment disorder. Attachment disorders arise when children are deprived of the all-important close bonds with trustworthy adults that allow them to develop emotionally and thrive. Finally educational psychologist Torey Hayden is called in to help. Torey agrees to weekly meetings with Jessie to try and uncover why she is acting out. Torey's gentle care and attention reveal shocking truths behind Jessie's lies. Can Torey and the other social workers help to provide the consistent loving care that has so far been missing in Jessie's life, or will she push them away too?

Lost Child - The True Story of a Girl who Couldn't Ask for Help

Jessie a 9 ans et ressemble à la petite fille parfaite, avec ses cheveux roux, ses yeux verts et son sourire charmant. Mais pour obtenir ce qu'elle veut, Jessie est capable de mentir, hurler, crier et faire du mal. Ses parents décident de la placer en foyer. Les assistants sociaux luttent pour parvenir à gérer son comportement et ses changements d'humeur brutaux, et Jessie fait plusieurs passages chaotiques dans des familles d'accueil. C'est alors qu'on appelle la pédopsychologue Torey Hayden pour lui venir en aide. Elle lui diagnostique un trouble de l'attachement. Celui-ci apparaît chez les enfants privés de liens sensibles et constants avec des adultes sécurisants, les empêchant de se développer normalement sur le plan émotionnel. L'attention bienveillante de Torey révèle des vérités surprenantes derrière les mensonges de Jessie. Arrivera-t-elle à se construire ou continuera-t-elle à repousser tous ceux qui veulent l'aider ?

L'enfant qui ne savait pas dire la vérité

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?

The Invisible Girl - The True Story of an Unheard Voice

"Conor tenait le chat en peluche étroitement serré contre sa poitrine. Il le souleva lentement pour le presser contre son menton puis il se mit à agiter frénétiquement une main. 

- Miaou ? murmura-t-il, le visage enfoui dans la fourrure du petit animal." 

Conor, 9 ans, ne s'exprime que par miaulements. Ses comportements obsessionnels épuisent ses parents, au point qu'ils songent au divorce. Ils confient leur fils, considéré comme autiste, au Dr James Innes. Si peu à peu une relation de confiance s'établit entre lui et l'enfant, le psychiatre s'intéresse aussi à sa mère, Laura, qui lui avoue avoir développé tout un univers pour échapper à son enfance difficile. Qu'implique cette imagination extraordinaire que toute la famille semble partager ? Et surtout, que cherche à exprimer réellement Conor, dont l'esprit se révèle très éveillé ?

L'enfant au chat

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

From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of a boy trapped in silence and the teacher who rescued him.

 When special education teacher Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricaded under a table. Desperately afraid of the world around him, he hadn't spoken a word in eight years. He was considered hopeless, incurable.

 But Hayden refused to believe it, though she realised it might well take a miracle to break through the walls he had built around himself. With unwavering devotion and gentle, patient love, she set out to free him - and slowly uncovered a shocking violent history and a terrible secret that an unfeeling bureaucracy had simply filed away and forgotten.

 Torey refused to give up on this tragic "lost case." For a trapped and frightened boy desperately needed her help - and she knew in her heart she could not rest easy until she had rescued him from the darkness.

Silent Boy - He was a frightened boy who refused to speak – until a teacher's love broke through the silence

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.

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