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

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

Dave Pelzer #1

Dave Pelzer

169 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir psychology emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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As a child Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games that left one of her sons nearly dead. She no longer considered him a son, but a slave; no long...

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inspiring 14%
hopeful 11%

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