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A Child Called ""It"": One Child's Courage To Survive (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

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A Child Called ""It"": One Child's Courage To Survive (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

by: Dave Pelzer

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Binding: School & Library Binding
EAN: 9780613171373
ISBN: 0613171373
Label: Turtleback
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Turtleback
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 195
Publication Date: February 01, 2000
Publisher: Turtleback
Studio: Turtleback

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The autobiographical account of a child's abuse at the hands of his alcoholic mother.

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David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as "an It." This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a spoonful of ammonia, and burned over a gas stove by a maniacal, alcoholic mom. Sometimes she claimed he had violated some rule--no walking on the grass at school!--but mostly it was pure sadism. Inexplicably, his father didn't protect him; only an alert schoolteacher saved David. One wants to learn more about his ordeal and its aftermath, and now he's written a sequel, The Lost Boy, detailing his life in the foster-care system.

Though it's a grim story, A Child Called "It" is very much in the tradition of Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul and the many books in that upbeat series, whose author Pelzer thanks for helping get his book going. It's all about weathering adversity to find love, and Pelzer is an expert witness.

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