Torey Hayden Books in Order
Torey Hayden has written 17 books, published between 1980 and 2021. The first book is One Child (1980) and the newest is The Invisible Girl (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 17
- Published
- 1980–2021
- Pages on record
- 3,774 in 13 of 17 books
- Reading time
- 63–94 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,774 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 17 titles with a page count on record.
Torey Hayden, born Victoria Lynn Hayden in Livingston, Montana in 1951, is a special education teacher and university lecturer. Hayden writes non-fiction built from her own experience teaching and counselling children with special needs, and fiction alongside it. One Child (1980) opens a catalogue of 17 books that closes with The Invisible Girl (2021), taking in Somebody Else's Kids (1981), Ghost Girl (1991), The Tiger's Child (1995) and Beautiful Child (2002). Autism, Tourette syndrome, sexual abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome and elective mutism, her specialism, are among the subjects. The Sheila sequence is the one series catalogued, and nothing new has appeared since 2021.
How many Torey Hayden books are there?
Torey Hayden has 17 books, released between 1980 and 2021. 2 of them belong to the Sheila series.
Torey Hayden Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 17 Torey Hayden books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119803042/4
- 2Somebody Else's Kids1981 · 333 pages · confirmed 2/419813332/4
- 3Murphy's Boy / Silent Boy1983 · confirmed 2/41983–2/4
- 4The Sunflower Forest1984 · 461 pages · confirmed 2/419844612/4
- 5Just Another Kid1988 · 411 pages · confirmed 2/419884112/4
- 6Ghost Girl1991 · 307 pages · confirmed 2/419913072/4
- 719953522/4
- 8Overheard in a Dream1996 · confirmed 2/41996–2/4
- 9Beautiful Child2002 · 385 pages · confirmed 2/420023852/4
- 10The Very Worst Thing2003 · 169 pages · confirmed 2/420031692/4
- 11Twilight Children2005 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/420053842/4
- 12Ziji: The Puppy Who Learned to Meditate2009 · 56 pages · confirmed 2/42009562/4
- 13Innocent Foxes2011 · confirmed 2/42011–2/4
- 14Teaching Children Who Are Hard to Reach: Relationship-Driven Classroom Practice2012 · 210 pages · confirmed 2/420122102/4
- 15Ziji and the Very Scary Man2018 · 50 pages · confirmed 2/42018502/4
- 16Lost Child2019 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/420193522/4
- 17The Invisible Girl2021 · confirmed 2/42021–2/4
Torey Hayden books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Sheila in order
2 booksStandalone books
15 books15 Torey Hayden titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Torey Hayden books in order?
You only need to read Torey Hayden books in order within the Sheila series, which holds 2 of the 17 Torey Hayden books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Torey Hayden
Start with One Child (1980), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Torey Hayden book?
The Invisible Girl (2021) is the newest Torey Hayden book released so far.
Is there a new Torey Hayden book coming?
No next Torey Hayden book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Torey Hayden at a glance
- Paused
- No new Torey Hayden title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Torey Hayden books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 3,774 pages across the 13 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 333 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Torey Hayden books, 5 of 17, were published in the 1980s.
What the Torey Hayden books are about
15 of the 17 Torey Hayden books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: case studies is tagged on 6 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Case studies 6 of 15 books
- Problem children 6 of 15 books
- Abused children 4 of 15 books
- Education 4 of 15 books
- Mental health 3 of 15 books
- Mentally ill children 3 of 15 books
- Rehabilitation 3 of 15 books
- Child abuse 2 of 15 books
- Child psychopathology 2 of 15 books
- Child psychotherapy 2 of 15 books
- Meditations 2 of 15 books
- Meditation, juvenile literature 2 of 15 books