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Summary: This is an excellent book to read regarding child abuse.
Review: This book is about an abuse boy. The book is easy to read. However, the child abuse experiences portrayed in this book are very sad. I was not able to stop reading this book, even though I felt angry and nauseated at what I was reading. This book should definitely be read by teachers, college students, clergy, doctors, neighbors,and anyone who comes into close contact with children. By reading this book, many people will understand what an abuse child experiences. The loneliness and fear this child experienced was terrible. I thank God that this boy was able to survive the abuse from his mother and live to tell about it.
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Summary: The Child Called It
Review: This book is about a boy in the city of Daly City, California. This bookk is an inspirational story about Dave Pelzer and his coping with an abusive and acoholic mother. It gives a child like view of the trauma that a abused child goes through. It tells of the games his mother used to play with him for her own pleasure. His mother, who tried to cover up the truth to the public, would also starve Dave if he didn't complete chores in the time she set aside for him. Dave also had three other brothers who never received the abuse that he did. He finally got help from his school teachers, nurse, and principal to get away from the abuse.This book was a very good book. It wasn't pleasant to read though. It gives a vivid recap of the troubles of a abused child. Written in the speech of a fourth grader, the telling of the story puts you almost in the same predicament of the story teller. It is very well written.
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Summary: "Compelling"
Review: When I read this book, I was astounded. I could not believe what David went through. He went through hell.He makes you realize that your minor problems are nothing compared to his life. This book gives you the strength to go on. When you read this book, you feel what he is feeling at that moment in this life. You express fright and joy with him. I read this book twice, before I went to get the sequel. There is a third book, I can't wait to go get it. I recommend this book to everyone!! You will not be able to put it down.
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Summary: This book gives out so many emotions you never knew you had
Review: This book helped me understand the point of view other innocent children have to cope with pain. The children don't choose there parents God chooses them. He got that particular faimily to tell people how sick people really are. I am not a parent but I have a nephew that is a year old. I would not ever let anything happen to him even if it was his own mother hurting him. When I read this book I put my nephew in his spot and it made me hurt. How could someone do that to a child. That question goes through your mind evey time you read about the abuse he goes through. If you have a child and you are hurting your baby you really need help because if you are really that sick you can kill you child emotionaly. This book will fill you with rage and make you just want to jump in as a character and tell the abusive person off. Take a chance with this book and tell your friends and family about it.
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Summary: brilliant and sad
Review: This Story touched me deep inside it made me cry and angry david showed courage and had faith standing up to his "monster" mother my collegues who also read this book felt the same way couldnt put it down till it was done and could'nt wait to read more about david and his triumphs and failures.we rooted for him when he was safe and cried for him when he could'nt. In my eyes he is a hero.This book tells the reality of child abuse .
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Summary: this book was a eye opener of child abuse in our society.
Review: i believe this book to be one of the best ever written. it has really opened my eyes to the abuse around me. i never thought it could happen in my town. it has really been a life changing expierence i could never make it through what he did i would have died. after reading this book and seeing the terror i thank god that my parents are good people. i would love to get more involved in the war against child abuse
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Summary: amazing story with questionable writing
Review: I found the story behind A Child Called It to be an amazing one, truly one of the most provocative and startling accounts of an abusive family i've ever seen. However the writing techniqe used by the author was distractingly amatourish. Overall I would say that to read this book you should be fully prepared to weep and writhe in anger however I can't help but think how much more effective the story would be if written by another writer.
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Summary: The beginning of a very unfortunate life.
Review: Mr. Pelzer has written an interesting, sad, well written book on his abuse as a child at the hands of his family. A good read.
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Summary: This is a realy good book to read.
Review: I think that evey one shold get the cance to read this book because it shows that some children do get abuse within there home and no one hardly notices it. It made me cry to think that some one could be so mean to a child that has not done anything.
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Summary: A tribute to the strength of the human spirit.
Review: A book about the raw horror of child abuse. However, this book was not only about David Pelzer's abuse and the people who chose "not to get involved". It is also about the people who cared, the kindness he encountered and how those people made a difference in his life. To all those readers put off by the grammer, the questions left unanswered, all I can say is GET OVER YOURSELVES. A person would have to be completely oblivious, simple and overly impressed with themselves to come out of this book complaining about the grammer. It was a real-life account, real life doesn't always cross the t's and dot the i's. As for the people complaining about the unanswered questions; you assume Mr. Pelzer knows the answers to those questions, perhaps he does not and never will. He shows the strength of the human spirit to overcome great adversity as well as the importance one kindness can have in the life of another. I was on the fence about becoming a foster parent, or an adoptive parent prior to reading this book. Once finished, there was no question in my mind that I will become a foster/adoptive parent. I intend to make a difference in the future of another person's life....the critics can keep correcting the grammer, they miss the big picture.
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