Overview
One Child is a book by American author and psychologist Torey Hayden.
The book opens with Hayden, a helpful education teacher, reading a newspaper article about a six-year-old girl who attempted to burn a three-year-old boy a couple of days prior, but was discovered before the boy was killed. As there was no place for her at the hospital, she ended up as a student in Torey's class, where she remains for about five months.