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Summary: A Child Called "It" A Child That Survive by his self.
Review: I think this story is so sad, It makes me cry and it makes me think how lucky i'm to have parents to care about me. It think somebody should treat his parent's the way they treated him.
Onces you start reading this book you would not want to put it down.There is a next a book named the "Lost Boy."I think somebody should throw baby poop in his mother faces.I Think his my should be in jail for what she done to her kid. I can't see how people can bring kids in this world and don't care nothing about them. It her child should have been taking away from her.
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Summary: A Great Book!
Review: I agree to the 12 year old reader who responded to this book. I think the book, A Child Called It, is a great book. I think everyone should get it. The book has a lot of moral lessons that everyone should know and should have known a long time ago. The book teaches us, that you need to treat a person, like a real living, breathing person and that every person has a right and no one can ever take that away from them, even your own parents can't take that right away from you. The book shows how a person, Dave can still overcome their fears, problems, even though there's no hope, and in the end still be alive and happy. Dave showed strength throughout the whole book. His dreams of being loved, and cared about, saved him from being dead. I totally agree to the 12 year old reader, who thinks that parents should treat each of their children with equal love, respect and freedom. A child would feel unloved, if their parents treat them differently. The child wouldn't think that he/she wasn't good enough and probably that's why she wasn't loved like her other brothers and sisters. I believe that parents have the responsibility to make their child feel loved and happy. In this case, Dave's mom wasn't smart enough to figure that out. She wasn't smart enough that she is killing her son, emotionally and physically. Or maybe that's what she wants.
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Summary: "A Child Called "It"
Review: This book was one of the best books I have ever read in my life. I would recommend this book to everyone! It was a very sad story. I loved it because it proves how strong a young boy can be in order to stay alive. People of all ages would love this book. If you have a great love for children, then I recommend this book to you. This story is such a page-turner, because I wanted to know how young Dave would survive the terrible ways of his mother. I couldnt really connect with the charactor because I have never been so badly abused, but I still felt his pain.
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Summary: A Child called It: One Childs courage to Survive
Review: This book is excellent it is one in three. If you read the first one then you have to read the follow up "Lost Boy." There is one more book that summarises it all that one is " A man named Dave."
This book is aa true story and is about the author, Dave (the author) can't win with his mother he is threatenly abused and starves, he can only has scraps of food. He goes to school sometimes. Dave is quite close to his dad but he gets threatened too. TGhis book brings a tear to your eye and i recommend it to anyone over the age of eleven. The reason being some of the things it sayus are quite sad!
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Summary: A Child called "it" By David J. Pelzer
Review: I liked this book alot. This book was about a boy his age is 5
when all starts out.I think it was because his mom had this sickness where she drank alot.She made him the slave of the family also made him do all the chores in the house. She would hit him any time she wanted to.I would recomend people to read this book and see their selves how good of a book it was.
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Summary: Almost too gutwrenchingly horrible to read
Review: My 12 year old daughter loved this book, and her friends like it too. I almost couldn't read it myself. It is a true story and goes on and on about the horrible tortures that the mother inflicted on this boy when he was little. It was hard to handle.
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Summary: amy's review
Review: I think that this book was wonderfully written. Honestly I hate reading; but couldn't seem to put this book down. Books to this type just grab my attention. I like this book because it's real, states life, lets you know that there is odd people in this world, very sad but true. The whole time I was reading this book, I thought to myself, " Is this true, would someone really do this to their child?" It's just so hard to believe. I could never do this to my child.
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Summary: My comment on the story...
Review: A Child Called "It", was and still is a great but sad story. Several of my friends read this story and suggested it to me so I read it myself. After I read the first chapter, even the first page I felt so touched by how it was written. Dave Pelzer is a magnificent author! I first thought this would be a fiction story, but it wasn't as much as I wanted it to be it wasn't. I was so surprised how he remembered all the details of his past young life and was so brave to share it to hundreds and thousands of people! I am an 8th grader and take my word for it! Read this book! Once I read one page I got hooked onto the book! I am not a daily reader, but this book made me one! Thank you for reading my comment on this wonderful book!
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Summary: Gripping story that leaves you devistated yet satisfied
Review: After turning the last page of this heart-wrenching book, my mind wandered throughout the life I had just been a part of for 2 hours. "A Child Called 'It'" took me on a whirl-wind of emotions, leaving me happy, sad, angry, and proud. In this book, Dave Pelzer recalls his childhood years at home, in which he survived on of the worst cases of child abuse ever reported, and eventually triumphed over tragedy.
Dave writes in a compelling fashion. His writing never implies that he is seeking pity from his readers, only the understanding that his story is one that needs to be told. He opens the book with his courageous escape from the prison he called "home", and then invites readers into the world he endured, where neglect, abuse, and torture were a way of life. Although he had other siblings, his mother only chose to enforce this inhumane treatment on Dave.
"A Child Called 'It'" remained in my clenched palms until I had read the very last page, which took no more than two hours. I found I could not tear myself away from his story. As I read, I felt as though I was right there alongside Dave, feeling the warm tears roll down his face everynight in the garage he called a bedroom, hearing his mother scream when another "game" was ready to be played, and enduring the pain and suffering that he felt everyday before he finally left.
The book is not written in "hard-to-understand" English. Many are not aware that such severe abuse goes on in the homes of many on a day to day basis, and after finishing the book, I felt empowered to make a difference in a child's life. The only thing I wanted to do when I had finished reading was to help a suffering child. I was truly insipired by the writings of Dave Pelzer.
I strongly recommend "A Child Called 'It'" to anyone who has ever cared for a child. Although Dave's story is one of sadness, his fleet to a better life proves to all that any obstacle can be overcome, through burning strength and desire.
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Summary: Gripping story that leaves you devistated yet satisfied
Review: After turning the last page of this heart-wrenching bood, my mind wandered throughout the life I had just been a part of for 2 hours. "A Child Called 'It'" took me on a whirl-wind of emotions, leaving me happy, sad, angry, and proud. In this book, Dave Pelzer recalls his childhood years at home, in which he survived on of the worst cases of child abuse ever reported, and eventually triumphed over tragedy.
Dave writes in a compelling fashion. His writing never implies that he is seeking pity from his readers, only the understanding that his story is one that needs to be told. He opens the book with his courageous escape from the prison he called "home", and then invites readers into the world he endured, where neglect, abuse, and torture were a way of life. Although he had other siblings, his mother only chose to enforce this inhumane treatment on Dave.
"A Child Called 'It'" remained in my clenched palms until I had read the very last page, which took no more than two hours. I found I could not tear myself away from his story. As I read, I felt as though I was right there alongside Dave, feeling the warm tears roll down his face everynight in the garage he called a bedroom, hearing his mother scream when another "game" was ready to be played, and enduring the pain and suffering that he felt everyday before he finally left.
The book is not written in "hard-to-understand" English. Many are not aware that such severe abuse goes on in the homes of many on a day to day basis, and after finishing the book, I felt empowered to make a difference in a child's life. The only thing I wanted to do when I had finished reading was to help a suffering child. I was truly insipired by the writings of Dave Pelzer.
I strongly recommend "A Child Called 'It'" to anyone who has ever cared for a child. Although Dave's story is one of sadness, his fleet to a better life proves to all that any obstacle can be overcome, through burning strength and desire.
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