The Invisible Girl: The True Story of an Unheard Voice (2021).Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl Who Couldn't Ask for Help (2019).Teaching Children Who Are Hard to Reach: Relationship-Driven Classroom Practice (2012).Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until Someone Listened (2005).Beautiful Child: The True Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her (2002).Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Desperate Peril-and a Teacher Who Saved Her (1991).Just Another Kid: The True Story of Six Children Impossible to Reach and the Amazing Teacher Who Embraced Them All (1988).Somebody Else's Kids: The True Story of Four Problem Children and One Extraordinary Teacher (1981).The organizer of the yearly Torey Hayden Message Board Sheep Walk in aid of the NSPCC and Save the Children, Hayden is divorced with one child. Since then, she has written several non-fiction titles, including Somebody Else's Kids (1981), and The Invisible Girl (2021). Hayden has over the years worked as a Title III special education auxiliary, a special education teacher, a psychiatric unit research coordinator, a counseling consultant and many more.Īpplying her immense wealth of experience in special education, Hayden made her debut in the world of fiction writing with One Child (1980). Victoria Lynn Hayden, better known as Torey Hayden, is an American special education expert and author of fiction and non-fiction novels.īorn in Livingston, Montana, she holds a B.A in Biology/Chemistry from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, an M.S in Special Education from Montana State University, Billings, Montana, and is working on a doctorate in Educational psychology/special education at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Somebody Else's Kids by Torey L. Hayden