This moving, personal book explores the power of stories to heal children from troubled backgrounds and offers up strategies for helping students discover and write about their own stories of strength and survival. It explores recent brain research on the way trauma changes the brain, and makes a case for encouraging all students to write. The last part of the book offers practical suggestions for enticing all writers, regardless of their struggles.

Enticing Hard-to-Reach Writers invites you on a journey to become a teacher who refuses to give up on any student, who helps children believe that they can have a positive impact on the world, and who — in some cases — becomes the last hope for a child to heal.