- Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Avon Books; Reissue edition (24 July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0380652277
- ISBN-13: 978-0380652273
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.6 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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- #79 in Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Families & Parents > Child Abuse
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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. But she never gave 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.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book is both heartbreaking and uplifting at different times. Kevin is a young man who you cannot help but feel very deeply for, he has had a life no-one should ever expereince. Torey Hayden is a very gifted lady both with a pen and with children. I would recommend this and other books of Torey's.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Murphy's Boy is another amazing book by Tory Hayden. Some parts of it made me so angry that a child could be treated the way Keven was, but Tory's unconditinal live and hope is wonderfull and refreshing I have read all or Tory"s books my favorate being One Child. They have inspired me to volentear at a camp for disabled kids during my summer break. Tory is an amazing person and a riviting wrighter. Anyone would love her books.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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As with all of the other Torey Hayden books, I throughly enjoyed this one. I had to read this one, along with ONE CHILD and SOMEBODY ELSE'S KIDS, for a Psychology book report. I still read Hayden's books even though I don't have reports to do on them. ;) This book was, in my opinion, ALMOST as good as ONE CHILD
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MOVING BOOK
WELL THATS IT I HAVE RAN OUT OF TOREY HAYDENS BOOKS.....THIS REMARKABLE WOMAN HAS MADE ME LAUGH AND MADE ME CRY FOR A FEW MONTHS READING HER BOOKS, IT SEEMS THERE ARE NO END TO HER... Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2006 by D. Ridngs
Phoenix Rising, Phoenix Dance
When readers are first introduced to Kevin, then 15, he is a ward of the state in a psychiatric facility. Read more
Published on 15 Nov 2005
Phoenix Rising, Phoenix Dance
When readers are first introduced to Kevin, then 15, he is a ward of the state in a psychiatric facility. Read more
Published on 15 Nov 2005
Murphy's Boy
I am a parent of an Autistic 16 year boy. I found the book just excellent and unable to put it down once you start reading it. Read more
Published on 29 July 2005 by Mrs. P. Buckle
Indepth understanding of problem children
Have read all Torey Hayden's books and have struggled to find them in England?? Why? As a teacher often work with children who have behavioural problems and have found her books... Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2001 by merlynm@mail.com
This book was mesmerizing.
I remember purchasing this book a while back and putting it on my shelf to read "on a rainy day". I picked it up again three days ago and haven't let go since. Read more
Published on 19 May 1999
Inspirational, Motivational, with the bonus of warm fuzzies
Torey Hayden I love you man! Every time I think it's time to choose a new profession, because I'm losing hope with the youth I work with, I pick up one of your novels. Read more
Published on 2 April 1999
An enjoyable and surprising story of hope.
I was inspired reading Murphy's Boy and often that is a hard task for a writer to accomplish. The love that radiates from Hayden is amazing and unending as she leads Kevin to... Read more
Published on 12 Jan 1999
This was a Life Changing Book
This was the first book I read by Torey L. Hayden. I was incredibly impressed. "Murphy's Boy" was the first book to change my perspective on what I want to do for a... Read more
Published on 28 Dec 1998
The most moving book I have ever read in my life.
Murphy's Boy is the most moving book I have ever read in my life. I could not put this book down. It was extremely well-written and very easy to read. Read more
Published on 15 Oct 1998
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