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A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
Title:
A child called "it" : one child's courage to survive
ISBN:
9781558743663
Publication Information:
Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, c1995.
Physical Description:
xi, 184 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents:
The rescue -- Good times -- Bad boy -- The fight for food -- The accident -- While father is away -- The Lord's Prayer -- Epilogue -- Perspectives on child abuse -- Resources for help.
Reading Level:
850 L Lexile
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Summary:
Dave Pelzer's story is the story of a child brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games -- games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. Dave had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave, and no longer a boy but an 'it'.
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