One Child (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Hayden, Torey

ISBN 10: 0808511394 ISBN 13: 9780808511397

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 1981

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Hayden recounts her battle to uncover the keen intelligence and touch the emotions of a troubled, sexually molested six-year-old girl who was abused as a younger child and was placed in her class for retarded preadolescents while awaiting space in a state institution.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Six-year-old Sheila never spoke, she never cried, and her eyes were filled with hate. Abandoned on a highway by her mother, unwanted by her alcoholic father, Sheila was placed in a class for emotionally disturbed children after she committed an atrocious act of violence against another child.

Everyone said Sheila was lost forever, everyone except her teacher, Torey Hayden.

Torey fought to reach Sheila, to bring the abused child back from her secret nightmare, because beneath the rage, Torey saw in Sheila the spark of genius. And together they embarked on a wondrous journey—a journey gleaming with a child's joy at discovering a world filled with love and a journey sustained by a young teacher's inspiring bravery and devotion.

 

About the Author:

Torey Hayden is an educational psychologist and a former special education teacher who since 1979 has chronicled her struggles in the classroom in a succession of bestselling books. She lives and writes in the U.K.

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0808511394
• ISBN 13: 9780808511397
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 251