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One Child

By: Torey Hayden, Kati Nicholl (abridged by)
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
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Publisher's summary

This beautiful and deeply moving tale recounts educational psychologist Torey Hayden's battle to unlock the emotions of a troubled and sexually abused child who, with the help of Hayden, was finally able to overcome her dark past and realise her full potential.

Six-year-old Sheila was abandoned by her mother on a highway when she was four. A survivor of horrific abuse, she never spoke, never cried, and was placed in a class for severely retarded children after committing an atrocious act of violence against another child. Everyone thought Sheila was beyond salvation - except her teacher, Torey Hayden. With patience, skill, and abiding love, she fought long and hard to release a haunted little girl from her secret nightmare - and nurture the spark of genius she recognised trapped within Sheila's silence.

This is the remarkable story of their journey together - an odyssey of hope, courage, and inspiring devotion that opened the heart and mind of one lost child to a new world of discovery and joy.

©2012 Torey Hayden (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic reviews

"Torey Hayden deserves the kind of respect I can’t give many people. She isn’t valuable, she’s incredible. The world needs more like Torey Hayden." ( Boston Globe)
"It has been a long time since you have read a book with the sheer emotional impact of One Child." ( The New York Times)
"Page after page proves again the power of love and the resiliency of life." ( Los Angeles Times)

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I love to read about difficulty being over come and not replacing sadness. Torey Hayden’s books are incredible and her work with children is so vital. I can read enough of them.

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