One Child, a story of a young girl who needed help and no one believed in her. Everyone had given up, except for Torey Hayden. Torey Hayden had written this life changing story about Sheila a child who just wanted someone to help her. Sheila was a young 6 year-old girl who was left behind by her mother. She was thought to be a lost cause by many people due to the fact she was very silent. After being put into a special class for her condition, only one person believed in her, and that was Torey Hayden. Sheila had fought long and hard with the help from Torey and got through all of her fear that she had been hiding all along.
Sheila seems to be the worst case of the class. At just six years old, she is being placed into Torey's room not only because she is a very troubled child but also has just burned a three-year old after tying him up against a tree. The story had made the newspaper. As Torey read the article, she felt an odd connection to the little girl. When Sheila first walked in to Torey's room she refused to socialize or to relocate. At the end of this story Sheila is able to be a normal child and move onto the third …show more content…
Sheila was more known to be smaller in size than most of the kids in her class. The average height that Shelia should be forty-five and a half inches. Sheila had some missing teeth which was somewhat normal for her age, although her permanent teeth should already have been coming in at this point. Sheila had quite an issue when she went to bed and then woke up the next morning. She had an issue with wetting the bed and she was quite embarrassed about it and had hoped her classmates wouldn’t notice the smell. At Sheila’s age she should no longer be wetting the bed. Although at her age it’s not that uncommon to here that children over the age of five are still wetting the bed. Although it is not a good thing it is not