Torey Hayden is an educational psychologist and a special education teacher who, since 1979, has chronicled her struggles in the classroom in a succession of bestselling books including One Child, Twilight Children, Beautiful Child, and Ghost Girl. By sharing these stories she brings awareness to how much difference a kind word and listening ear can make to a child in need. Torey is American by birth but lives in the UK. 25 million copies of Torey's books have sold worldwide.