Silent Boy

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.