Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Desperate Peril – and a Teacher Who Saved Her - Couverture souple

Hayden, Torey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007218648 ISBN 13 : 9780007218646

Editeur : HarperCollins, 2006

Synopsis

This beautiful and deeply moving tale recounts educational psychologist Torey Hayden's battle to unlock the emotions of a troubled and sexually abused child who, with the help of Hayden, was finally able to overcome her dark past and realise her full potential. Six-year-old Sheila was abandoned by her mother on a highway when she was four. A survivor of horrific abuse, she never spoke, never cried, and was placed in a class for severely retarded children after committing an atrocious act of violence against another child. Everyone thought Sheila was beyond salvation - except her teacher, Torey Hayden. With patience, skill, and abiding love, she fought long and hard to release a haunted little girl from her secret nightmare - and nurture the spark of genius she recognised trapped within Sheila's silence. This is the remarkable story of their journey together - an odyssey of hope, courage, and inspiring devotion that opened the heart and mind of one lost child to a new world of discovery and joy.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked in her own private world of shadows. Nothing in Torey Haydens experience had prepared her for the nightmare Jadie revealed to her when she finally persuaded to break her self imposed silence. It was a story too painful and too horrific for Haydens 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.

Quatrième de couverture :

Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled world . . . until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self-imposed silence.

Nothing in all of Torey Hayden’s experience could have prepared her for the shock of what Jadie told her—a story too horrendous for Torey’s professional colleagues to acknowledge. Yet a little girl was living in a nightmare, and Torey responded in the only way she knew how—with courage, compassion, and dedication—demonstrating once again the tremendous power of love and the resilience of the human spirit.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0007218648
• ISBN 13: 9780007218646
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416