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  • The follow up to One Child.

  • A true story about Torey's journey with a young girl who lives a horrible childhood. In this book, Torey helps Sheila accept that her mother abandoned her at the age of 4 leaving her to be raised up by her father, an addict who was in and out of prison. Sheila had a horrendous childhood but finds a ... Continue

    A true story about Torey's journey with a young girl who lives a horrible childhood. In this book, Torey helps Sheila accept that her mother abandoned her at the age of 4 leaving her to be raised up by her father, an addict who was in and out of prison. Sheila had a horrendous childhood but finds a much needed mother's type of comfort in Torey. Torey teaches her acceptance for the life she was given and helps her to move on to build a brighter future and eventually finding her own happiness.

    

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When special-education teacher Torey Haydenwrote her first book One Child almost twodecades ago, she created an internationalbestseller. Her intensely moving true story ofSheila, a silent, profoundly disturbed littlesix-year-old girl touched millions. From everycorner of the world came letters from readerswanting to know more about the troubled childwho had come into Torey Hayden's class as a"hopeless case," and emerged as the very symbolof eternal hope within the human spirit.

Now, for all those who have never forgotten thisendearing child and her remarkable relationshipwith her teacher, here is the surprising story ofSheila, the young woman.