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Summary: a child called it
Comment: This book should be a required reading book for all teachers children and parents in that order. Then it should be required for all children welfare workers. Childrens councelors should also read this as most truly dont know how to councel the children they work with. I am making all my family read it. Thank you for printing it.
Carrie
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Summary: Very interesting and very brave of him to tell his story. Very easy read.
Comment: You just feel so much hatred for his mother, but so sorry for him. Glad he lived to tell his story. Recommend all children read it.
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Summary: Highly Recommend!
Comment: I bought the trilogy I simply could not put the books down! I highly recommend them!
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Summary: A Child Called 'It'
Comment: "A Child Called `It' is a true story about a young boy named Dave Pelzer who was harshly treated by his emotionally unstable alcoholic mother. He had to go through the worst things because his mother was alone all day at home and would come up with new punishing "games" to entertain herself. He was allowed to eat food only if he finished washing the dishes in 20 minutes. Several times Dave had to swallow ammonia for stealing food. Most of the time, Dave did not even know what he was punished for. He thought he was being good boy and he did whatever he was told but he was still punished for no reason. He had gone through so much for so many years that now his brothers also became against him too. With all of these bad things happening to him at such a young age, one thing that kept Dave alive was the dream that someone would come and rescue him. He kept wishing for the love that he wanted all his life from a mother.
With each punishment and torture, you'll feel the pain that Dave was going through and his strong belief that some day he'll be rescued. This horrifying story brings to attention the terrible child abuse and the unimaginable sufferings that a child endures from people that are supposed to be source of love and affection and not hate.
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Summary: WOW!
Comment: I got this book delivered to me at work, I left work at 5pm, got home by 6pm and started reading this book. I read it all by 1 am the next morning. I could NOT put it down. It was the unbelelivable acts of a parent(s) that I was tyring to justify. I thought..somewhere in this book I would find the answer or that this abuse would subside or lessen the gruesomeness of it all. But..i didn't find that..it only worsens. I am at awe at the details and courage it took to write this book. I am at awe that a child can comprehend the necessary skills of survival and somehow have faith that things would one day, some day , in dreams get better.I am a graduate student earning my MFT degree. This book was very educational and gave me a look at what to possibly expect in my future career.
I look forward to the next book..which I just ordered..with a RUSH!
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