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

A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive | Dave Pelzer | WOW! What a Read

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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 1927 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

You will never forget this story

I have read the one star reviews on this book and take them from an objective point of view. I take them into consideration when writing my review here.
This book is one of the most horrific stories of child abuse you will ever read. It is truly heart wrenching and will blow your mind away while making your heart cry.
Wether or not the sordid details are 100% accurate (read the one star reviews for details), we all know child abuse is out there and that there are sick people who make life unbearable for many children. If nothing else, this story makes you want to join the agencies that are in place to help and protect children. You want to go out there and make a difference in the lives of abused children.
This book is definitely worth reading. Ignore the points mentioned in the one star reviews - an abused child/person may have forgotten the exact time line and exaggerated some of the details because they are telling the story from their own point of view. It is easy to get too tied in to a story and elaborate when you have emotion tied to it. Plus, it can be easy for people (the readers and reviewers) to brush off such grotesque details when they are too terrible to believe.

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WOW! What a Read

This book I bought due to it being recommended by a guy that I work with. This is a page turner and it tares out your heart. There were some chapters that tore my heart out, especially the ones where his mother burned him and knifed him in the stomach. If something like this happened to anyone else it may of killed us but it gave Dave Pelzer more inner strength.My daughter and nieces have also read the books and were totally astonished. These books I believe give kids the inner strength to survive. Kids see that a person who was severly abused survived and so can they! I just can't see why a mother that carried her baby for nine months would do something like this to her own child. Why didn't anyone step in to save this child before they did. Even his own father would not help him. A must read to open your eyes to the real world and no this was not a movie but a real life event that actually took place by a mother.

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The Child Called It

The Child Called It is the saddest book. It makes you cry. The characters are Dave, his brothers, his crazy mom, and his dad. Dave never got food.He only got leftovers. Where Dave lived, you do not want to know. If Dave had to live with his mom, he will die. In The Child Called It, there were no adventures at all!! I like the beginning of book . My least favorite character is mom. So start reading more of it. It is good book.

awsome, sad. glad he escape

No child should have to go through this. I know the mother was mentally ill. I hope in death she is finally at rest

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Sentimental, but no analysis

I have never experienced such a large amount of guilt and shame over our world, until I read the memoir of 12-year-old David Pelzer. A Child Called It is a grueling and powerful autobiography written about Dave Pelzer's abusive early childhood. In most of the books written by Dave Pelzer, such as Lost Boy: A foster child's search for the love of a family, and The Privilege of Youth: A teenager's story longing for acceptance and friendship, they all resemble some form of struggling to be accepted by others and finding a true home. By far, A Child Called It may be the most disturbing book Mr. Pelzer has written. It seems as if Pelzer focuses on two different things in the book. He tries to help people realize his struggle for acceptance in his own family and also, helping people understand that they are able to overcome any type of circumstance, but falls short of providing understanding of extreme abuse or how he made his journey from "Victim to Victor."
It takes some work to get past the "this happened, then this happened, and this is how I felt about it" approach and the self-importance theme throughout the book, but the book tries ardently to provide the child perspective that we need. One of the greater obstacles to healing for males is admitting that they have been victims, especially if their perpetrator is a woman. This author has overcome that obstacle and succeeded in life by such masculine norms as joining the Air Force and receiving awards for his volunteerism. However, while personal accounts of child maltreatment provide crucial information about the realities of childhood, youngsters need insight and hope in order to digest the raw material of abuse. Since the book covers Dave Pelzer's life from age four to twelve, there were many types of abuse that can damage a child's delicate psyche, like psychological abuse. The only aspect that the book lacks is an in-depth analysis of David's psychological experience to fully grasp the experience that cannot be perceived as an outsider. I recommend this book to experience the hard cold facts of abuse but not for psychological analysis.

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