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

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

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.

Torey Hayden

Silent Boy

He was a frightened boy who

refused to speak – until a teacher’s

love broke through the silence

Dedication (#ulink_423a733b-f100-5ac8-a8c3-362bc4688588)

To S. K.

for teaching me to cherish the

brutal privilege of being human

Contents

Cover (#u411bcca8-f510-5900-bfe5-2602e3d8d4c9)

Title Page (#ue362d512-9cb5-54ab-885f-7039a6eed4f0)

Dedication

Part I (#ua654cd64-3616-54d5-9aac-b962c11596a4)

Chapter One (#ub59eb443-d696-5851-873c-5a3c35a3f0e4)

Chapter Two (#udb397178-c62b-5c12-928f-e872182ae5bc)

Chapter Three (#u84d22b9f-d615-5e50-992b-b6b0f3e936ac)

Chapter Four (#u94a8378a-25da-59c9-b186-3963451acb90)

Chapter Five (#ue18a1c34-2fa6-5690-a0f1-59195ebd2d6e)

Chapter Six (#uab375cb1-316b-59ee-8475-47082bf1f7a5)

Chapter Seven (#ubead2298-2e33-5023-878d-586efc434163)

Chapter Eight (#ue6db590e-b85f-5a72-a809-2c61c3b76e63)

Chapter Nine (#uedb79af5-ccb3-5281-b484-687ce68894b6)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Part II (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty–one (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty–two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty–three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty–four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty–five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty–six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty–seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty–eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty–nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirty–one (#litres_trial_promo)

Part III (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirty–two (#litres_trial_promo)