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Summary: A Child Called it
Review: A child called it is an excellent story for young adults. I say that because there are ordeal events that take place in that book. Negelect is the whole purpose. I feel if kids read this book they'll know how lucky they are to have parents who aren't like It's. If any children read this book be lucky to even have a name! How would you feel if your name was IT?
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Summary: Mother From Hell!!!
Review: This is a true story about a little boy whose worst enemy was his own mother. Psychotic and alcoholic, she would beat, burn, and torture him in the most bizarre and painful ways. It's a miracle he even survived the maniacal woman's daily campangue of tortures. It's very painful and disturbing to read what this little boy had to go through. Because a starving 8 year old boy is pretty much defenseless against a full grown woman. She would starve him to the point where he had to eat as much food as possible at school, force him to drink cleaning agents and chemicals like ammonia, hold his hands and arms over the flames of the stove, tore his clothes off and threw him on top of the stove with the burners lit, cut him and smashed his face into mirrors, forced him to do housework while stabbing him with knives, forced him to stay in freezing cold bath water for hours at a time, heavily sprayed the garage with disinfectant cleaners and locked him in to inhale the toxic fumes, made him sleep in the freezing cold garage on the floor with only a light jacket, and brutally beat him daily. The odd thing is that she treated her other children like gold and never laid a finger on them. Her husband was a joke and never bothered to help the boy from his crazed mother. This story is by far the worst case of child abuse I have ever heard of. I was very emotional while reading this book. You will be too.
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Summary: The lost Boy
Review: I think this book has a great look on how the people out there in the world are willing to reach out and help.
I believe the the autor put a lot of effort and time in this book to make it worth while.Dave Pelzer is a inspiration to me and life in foster care that my daughter is living.
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Summary: A Child Called "It"
Review: I was just starting Junior High when my friend had brought this novel to school. At first I thought, what child would be named "It". This novel caught my eyes. It was very surprising and shocking. Reading about an 8year old little boy in which with details explain his childhood. David explains all the hard times he went through and how his father and brothers did absolutely nothing as they witness the beaten that he receive from his mother. At times his mother would make him strip down to no clothes and place him in the cold showers. She once smashed his face into a mirror that was hanging on the bathroom wall. As I went along reading this book my eyes would get watery but the passion of wanting to know how this story was going to end was what motivated me to finish the book. Throughout this story David grows from a confused frustrated young child into a struggling young adult with horrible memories. This book motivated me a lot and I suggest this book should be read. It's a great book that expresses and shows that many children in life suffer from their own parents and that's one of the main causes why children grow up traumatized.
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Summary: Have to agree with "AMAZING" reviewer
Review: EVERONE should read all of the David Pelzer series of books, especially A CHILD CALLED IT. With that read NIGHTMARES ECHO and BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA...excellent reading materials to teach,see what is happening in our everyday lives. David Pelzer is an excellent author...
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Summary: Horrible, devastating--a must read
Review: This book kept me up at night. I'll admit, I was skeptical at first with so many "look at me, I hurt" books out there. But this one is truly different. This one packs a punch. What a horrible story of child abuse. It's hard to imagine that parents could do this to their children. There are some simliar books, equally horrifying, out there too: Sybil comes to mind, and McCrae's Bark of the Dogwood, though the latter is extremely funny as well as disturbing. A Child Called It, along with Lost Boy, are books everyone should read. They're not for those without a strong stomach, though. Highly recommended and five stars.
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Summary: A Child Called "It"
Review: I am a tenth grade student and I picked this book out to read for a report. I could barely finish it. I don't understand ONE BIT how a mother could do that to thier own child. Every detail in the book was absolutely disgusting. The book was good and well-written, but what Dave's mother did to him was revolting and sick. I almost threw up. I don't know how he ever survived. This book made me count my blessings and feel lucky that I have a mother and a father and a brother to love me.
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Summary: amazing
Review: This is an amazing book. No its not fantasy,not Sci-Fi...this in fact is the truth and how this child lived. It is a terrible way for a child to have to live. A terrible look at what goes on around us on a daily basis, and yet know one seems to pay attention until the media gets a hold of the story. This is a must read Memoir.
Other memoirs to look for: Running With Scissors, Nightmares Echo and Lost Boy
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Summary: This book keeps you reading for more!
Review: This book was about a boy who got abused and his hope to survive. It tells you the hardship that Dave, the young boy who got abused, had to go through. Also this book is like a journal of his life and how he was abused. You probably conclude that Dave gets referred to as an "it" and not a human being. When you read this book it will really open your eyes about child abuse. It helps you understand how bad child abuse is and it tells you how much it hurt him physically and mentally. Dave has a few brothers, but they do not get abused like he does from his alcoholic parents.
I liked how this book told me about how abused children think of their life. Another thing I liked is it keeps you wondering if he is going to die from all the bad things he has to do.
One thing I didn't like was that the book built up the end, but then just left you wondering about how he ended up.
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Summary: A alright book nothing to exciting
Review: A Child Called It
By: Dave Pelzer Summary: A Child Called It was about a boy who has a really terrible life. His parents treat him so bad that they called him it. In this life he goes through all kinds of different hardships and has a troubled life. He learns how to cope with it and give himself the courage and confidence to stay alive.
What I liked about this book: The things I liked about this book are things that deal and cope with real life situations. It lets you know and makes you think about all the kids out in this world today that are really going through the same life style the boy in the story A Child Called It went through. What I didn't like about this book: Over all the book was alright. There were some downfalls to the book thought. At many times the book was boring and you just new what was going to happen next. I like exciting books and books that are going to keep me interested and this just wasn't one of them books. Any books like A Child Called It: I don't really read that often so I would not no if there are any books like this one. I haven't heard of anyone talk about a book similar but i'm not sure there might just be one out there!
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