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Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book reviews: Just Another Kid, by Torey Hayden

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"Just Another Kid" by Torey Hayden is a true story about 6 emotionally damaged children and a very special teacher who sets about trying to reach out to these children.

Torey Hayden is an educational psychologist and a special-education teacher who worked with children with problems in a school in America. She has written many books about the children she has worked with.

In this book we discover three of the children are affected by the war in Ireland. First into the classroom come sisters Shemona and Geraldine. They have lost their parents through the fighting in Ireland and have...

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