A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive

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Summary: This is the best book ever!
Review: This book was so sad!! I read it in 2 days and I am 13. I cried about all the time and it just breaks your heart to hear everything. It's so horrible. I suggest this book to everyone! Your heart will be touched and it is the best book I have ever read. It's not one of those books where you can just not read it for a week, you have to find out what happens! Dave Pelzer is an amazing man and my prayers are with him. It's so amazing that he can survive like that and remember, no matter what, God is with you!

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Summary: A Heroic Child with a will to survive
Review: The true story, A Child Called "it", gives its readers proof of that spark and drive in people that persists when goals or dreams need to be met. In the case of David Pelzer, survival was the goal, and a loving family was the dream. Even through the tough, torturous abuse he experienced in his childhood, that spark for survival never died within his soul. David Pelzer was a hero by having the will to live through and after severe abuse by his mother, giving child abuse awarness through his up-lifting and inspirational story.
The story gives inspiration to readers, as it proved a child's heroic courage to live. David was not considered a family member, son, or even a person. His identification was "it", which symbolized the lack of love and respect he recieved from others. Somehow he had the will to keep dreaming and having faith that everything would be okay and that he would wake up from his nightmare. He was determined to get the love and respect he deserved. The physical pain endured by David did not hinder his courage to survive. For example, David was purposfully burned by his mother and with courage he found a way to put off being killed. The starved, burned, beaten, and poisoned child still seemed mentally strong, never giving up. Dispite his age, knowladge, and perspective, he was a hero. He was then able to describe his experiences in a way that forces the reader to sympathize and even feel the pain he felt as a child. This read, with un-forgettable and unimaginable details, may create images disturbing to children. However, the message hidden in the story is worth the read for teenagers and adults.
A Child Called "it", is about a boy that suffered unbearable pain. His heroic courage to survive will inspire those who come across the book. It is a worthwhile read that gives hope and awarness to its readers. One will be inspired to go after their goals and dreams, never giving up, even when times are tough. It encourages one to live the life they want and deserve. But most of all, the story gives awarness and the opportunity to help out with the situation of child abuse, maybe changing someones life.

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Summary: Definetly read this book, its great
Review: A child called "it" is an autobiography by Dave Pelzer. It is a well written story,
but it can be difficult to read at some times. The fact that this is a story that
he wrote about his own childhood makes it even more difficult to take
in. Each chapter describes the extreme child abuse that Dave Pelzer endured as a child.
In the beginning of the book, the author explained his mother as a caring,
loving mother and he explained his family as "the Brady Bunch." But
circumstances soon began to change and his opinion of his family, especially his
mother, drastically changed.  David was only in first grade when the abuse
began. What began as discipline soon became punishment that grew way out of
control. Even if he had been committing the same "crime" as his brothers, David
was the only one that received punishment. By "punishment" one would think a
slap across the face, or an hour in the corner, for David that was not the case.
The horrific things that his mother did to him are sickening to read about, it
is amazing that anyone would treat their children the way this woman treated her
son. The worst part? She treated his brothers with respect and took care of them
with love and kindness. When his father tried to help David, his mother did not
allow it. She threatened to leave her husband if he ever did such a thing.
Considering the entire family was terrified of her, none of them pushed her
limits. She was an evil and frightening woman; her alcoholism drove her even
further over the edge, causing her to be an all out mental case. You can
probably guess (mainly because it is an autobiography) that things worked out
for David. A substitute teacher was his saving grace, and a few teachers banded
together and saved this little boy.
This story, although difficult to take in, is very good to read. It is well
written and gives the reader a new view on child abuse. This sort of thing
happens often to many people, maybe not to this extreme, but abuse is still out
there. People are suffering like David did, and reading about child abuse makes
the awful experience seem almost personal. David's story is an inspirational
story of the hope and strength of a little boy who could have given up during
all his pain. However, his vigor and strong spirit kept him going though all the
absolute agony that his mother put him through.

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Summary: Good book
Review: I am 14 and read this book in 1 day. it was the best book i have ever red. When he got stabbed and his ather told him to do the dishes i felt so bad for him. Than when his mother was nice to him i thought the book was over but it had just re-started. Ired this with 1 other person and we both cried when he tried not to cry. YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!

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Summary: Children should never be call "it"
Review: As I was reading this book my heart so went out to Dave. He is so full of courage to have lived through all the things he has. This is so moving to me, I would never think someone could treat a child as his mother (if that is what we HAVE to call her) did to him. After reading, I look at my children in a totally different way. And other children as well. I hope everyone that reads this and the other books Dave has written, stands with me in the fact that ALL child abuse should be reported and there should never another child have to live through this.

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Summary: A Child Called It
Review: I thought that "A Child Called It" was an outstanding book. The author took those thoughts from deep inside of him and turned them into real life onto pages and pages of an unforgetable story of a child called it. My friends and I read it together and we all cried during every bad/mean part. It was the worst thing that she could have done for a kid that age. I am so greatful that I have parents opposite of what his mother was. If anyone out there is as miserable as he was, please notify someone immediately about your problem or get help from someone because living like that is the worst thing that you could do for yourself or anyone around you!

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Summary: The Lost Boy
Review: The book that I read which was "The Lost Boy" was the best. It showed David's personal life when he was a young boy and the way he lived in his house. His mother which I don't want to call a Mother treated David like he was an animal. She made him eat baby dipers! Now that's a little too much for a young kid. Why would his own mother do that to him. He was an innocent kid who wanted love from his family. His Mother didn't give him food, new clothes, and a nice warm bed to sleep at night. She hit him and had burned him a few times because he didn't do dishes for twenty minutes. He was a kid, he didn't know how to do dishes. I learned to do dishes when I was 9 years old and he was only 5. There is no way that his mother would treated him like that. She was an alcoholic, mean, abusive mom for David. I read that she was bad only to David. Her other kids were treated better and were loved. Poor David. Even though his Mother treated him bad he always loved her.....
This book makes me cry every time I read it. I would recomend this book to all people of all ages to know that there are other people out there,who their problems are bigger and definitly different from ours..... Bye bye

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Summary: A gross book!
Review: This book is so gross! Dave Pelzer's mom, makes him eat poop from Russel's diaper! Plus she makes him throw up hot dogs and then eat them! But you should read this book anyway! It was a great book! I loved this book! It was so good! Plus Dave Pelzer's stabs him! And hits him in the face! And punches him! And puts dishwashing soup in his mouth! And makes him do dishes in scalding hot water! And smashes his face against the mirror! And makes him lay in the bathtub naked! And burns his arm over a gas stove! Read it anyway if you like Dave Pelzer as much as I do!

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Summary: an amazing tale of survival
Review: Movies and television are filled with graphic images of violence and suffering. But as I flipped through the pages of David Pelzer's A Child Called It, the gripping tale of his childhood was far worse than anything portrayed on film. Because the book, David, and his suffering are real, a new and haunting dimension is brought to the pages of this autobiography. Told through the eyes of the young David, the reader is brought into the hell he was forced to call home. His mother, an abusive alcoholic, beat David day after day. She constantly dreamed of new ways to make "the boy" suffer. David went days without food, was forced to swallow ammonia, and was stabbed in the stomach with a kitchen knife... all actions from the woman whom he still sought acceptance from. He was sent to school every day in the same clothes, dirty and hungry. His life was a life of misery instead of luxury and of survival as opposed to love. But David did survive. He remained strong during the times when his body was weak and his mind wanted to give up... strong enough to put to paper the events of his childhood into a 3-part series. A Child Called It is the first in the trilogy. David's life, unique in its own merits, is truly an eye-opening tale.

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Summary: A child called it
Review: I give the book a Child called it 2 thumbs UP! IT is suspenseful, thrilling, scary, and amazing all in one simple easy reading book. The book basically makes you feel like you are each and every character. IT makes you get a little feeling of who and what each character. IT makes you get a little feeling of who and what each character is about. And what their role is in the story. The book makes you want to help the characters in the book to make them better people.
After you read this book you just want to be a nicer person all around. It makes you think twice about how lucky you really are to be living your life the way that you do. You might not have your favorite CD or play station game or even movie, but look at what you do have, and be thankful for that. IF you have a roof over your head, food to eat, clothes on your back and one or two people that love you then you are one of the luckiest people in the world. Sometimes it isn't even what you have physically that makes you lucky but its what you have mentally.
No matter how good of a person you are sometimes you just don't' deserve what you get. People aren't fair and neither is life. The young boy in this story learned that very quickly at a young age. He grew up thinking that he was a bad person, thinking everything he did was wrong. When really his mom brainwashed him into thinking this.
The book makes you want to live your life to the fullest. Not day-by-day but minute-by-minutes. Don't think about what might happen. Think about what is going to happen. It also makes you want to help out other people. Get people out of trouble if you have the power to do that. Maybe even if it means just to brighten up some ones day. Don't you feel special when you have the power to make someone feel good? Well if you can do it then why not?
I enjoy this book a lot. This is the first chapter book I have ever read in my entire 16 years of living. I really hope you decide to read it. But I'm telling you your going to read the first book and then your going to want to read the sequel to it.
Take what life hands you, and make the best of everything each and everyday.