Ghost Girl

By Torey Hayden,

Book cover of Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Desperate Peril-And the Teacher Who Saved Her

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From the bestselling author of One Child comes this compelling, true story of a child in desperate peril and the teacher who saved her despite the odds.

Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own…

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1 author picked Ghost Girl as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I flipped through one of Torey Hayden’s books in a small library last summer and liked what I read. I looked her up later and discovered she is a special education teacher who’s published many accounts of the toughest cases she’s had to deal with. 

Ghost Girl reads like a thriller. Based on her experience with a strange child named Jade, Hayden recounts how she uncovers the girl’s dark secrets of ritual abuse and tries to help her out of her situation. Many deny that ritual abuse actually takes place because solid evidence is hard to come by, but…

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