One child/Banners of Silk/The Gentle Jungle/Reflex [antikvár]

They were aflFectionately referred to as the "garbage class": eight physically and emotionally handicapped children who didn't fit in anywhere else. Add to that a cramped classroom and untrained assistantsit was more than Torey Hayden, a gifted young teacher, had bargained for.Then, to complicate matters, six-year-old Sheila, disruptive, frightened and angry, is placed in the class halfway through the year. Sheila is a tiny child who has known only pain and cruelty in her short lifetime. Abandoned by her mother, brought up in a migrant shack by her shiftless father, she seems to have everything stacked against her. How, Torey wondered, could she ever reach this tormented soul?Using patience and determination, she finds a way, and finds too that hidden within hostile little Sheila is an extraordinarily special child.This moving story of a devoted teacher and her deeply troubled student is an unforgettable testimony to the healing power of love.