A Circle of Children Author:Mary MacCracken Mary MacCracken's Loving Story of Helping Children Who Knew Only How to Hate. — This is the story of a teacher with a listening heart who learned how to understand her children's private hells of anger, confusion, hurt, and tragic loneliness. It is the inspiring, ultimately triumphant story of her no-holds-barred war against the darkness of their... more » lives, and how she searched for, and found, the individual keys to free them.« less