Tne Most Compelling Book of My Time!!

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	• A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive Dave Pelzer HCI, 1995 - 195 pages average customer review:based on 1888 reviews view larger image
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Heartbreaking

As I have read a few of the other reviews, people writing saying they do believe David Pelzer, I can not help but fear that is what happens to these abuse victims from the start. This boy had to endure torture for many years, because no one helped him. I think EVEN if this book is exagerated in anyway, this book has probably helped lots of child abuse survivors. This is a real heartfelt, very sad book. God bless David and his son.

A Child Called It

This is a very good and eye-opening and short book regarding an abused child who lived through and survived horrible attrocities. I am surprised he has any sanity left as an adult. It opens our eyes to real abuses going on in our society, that oft go undetected. This book should be required reading in school, at an appropriate age. Maybe kids would come forward, without cause to be afraid. This country has some real deviates in it, and this book makes known that very fact. Keep your tissues handy when reading it, and prepare to be appalled. What inner strength that child had.

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Tne Most Compelling Book of My Time!!

I have never read a book that I became so personally invested in. You start becoming part of his life and wishing you could do something. You can't put it down. It is an emotional rollercoaster that is so compelling!

DISTURBING BUT INSPIRING

This is a story of Dave Pelzer who was abused and tortured by his alcholic and mentally disturbed mother. The things that she did to this poor boy were so disturbing like eating his own vomit and starving him but his will and spirit made him a survivor. I couldn't put down this book. I cried when I read this book but was inspired by this boy's tremendous determination, spirit, and endurance to survive under such dire circumstances. This is such a great well written book but very sad. A Must read along with the Caged Animals at Night (another great read).

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David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as "an It." This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a spoonful of ammonia, and burned over a gas stove by a maniacal, alcoholic mom. Sometimes she claimed he had violated some rule--no walking on the grass at school!--but mostly it was pure sadism. Inexplicably, his father didn't protect him; only an alert schoolteacher saved David. One wants to learn more about his ordeal and its aftermath, and now he's written a sequel, The Lost Boy, detailing his life in the foster-care system.

Though it's a grim story, A Child Called "It" is very much in the tradition of Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul and the many books in that upbeat series, whose author Pelzer thanks for helping get his book going. It's all about weathering adversity to find love, and Pelzer is an expert witness.

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