"Were all just somebody else"s kids . . . "A small seven-year-old boy who couldn"t speak except to repeat weather forecasts and other people"s words . . . A beautiful little girl of seven who had been brain damaged by terrible parental beatings and was so ashamed because she couldn"t learn to read . . . A violently angry ten-year-old who had seen his stepmother murder his father and had been sent from one foster home to another . . . A shy twelve-year-old from a Catholic school which put her out when she became pregnant . . . "What do we matter?" "Why do you care?"They were four problem children-put in Torey Hayden"s class because no one else knew what to do with them. Together, with the help of a remarkable teacher who cared too much to ever give up, they became almost a family, able to give each other the love and understanding they had found nowhere else.