Murphy's Boy (Unabridged)
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4.8 • 5 Ratings
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
His name was Kevin but his keepers called him Zoo Boy. He didn't talk. He hid under tables and surrounded himself with a cage of chairs. He hadn't been out of the building in the four years since he'd come in. He was afraid of water and wouldn't take a shower. He was afraid to be naked, to change his clothes. He was nearly 16.
Desperate to see change in the boy, the staff of Kevin's adolescent treatment center hired Hayden. As Hayden read to him and encouraged him to read, crawling down into his cage of chairs with him, Kevin talked. Then he started to draw and paint and showed himself to have a quick wit and a rolling, seething, murderous hatred for his stepfather.
Customer Reviews
Murphy's Boy
Read this book as a child. Great book. stuck in my head for years. must be re published cause I'm 38 and I read it when I was a kid. If You like this book then you'll also like "One Child" A story about a girl named Sheila. Good books for any child with a sympathizing approach to societies unfortunate youth. They should make some of Torey Hadens books into movies if they haven't yet.