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

Pros: emotionally charged, very well-written

Cons: will make you angry at what he was forced to go through and will break your heart.

Review: Child abuse. Cold, cruel, heartless, unbelievable. Something that no one wants to talk about, yet it happens to the most vulnerable members of our society way too often.

Don't read this book unless you are prepared to have your heart...

Pros: True story, excellent writing

Cons: Very sad

The Bottom Line: Very sad, but inspiring, true story of a man who overcame extreme child abuse.

Review: This is the stuff Stephen King books are made of: absolute horror; cruelty beyond imagination. Except it?s a true story. I heard about Dave Pelzer and his childhood of abuse from other social workers I work with, so I thought I knew what I was...

Pros: This story will grab you and not allow you to put it down.

Cons: That any mother could do these horrible things to her own child is unimaginable.

The Bottom Line: A true story which will make you treasure your own children even more. Just the thought of all the abuse this child suffered is incomprehensible.

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Pros: shows the strength and fortitude of this tortured young boy

Cons: this story is so disturbing that I could not sleep after I fini shed it

Review: David Pelzer is a survivor. He is my hero. He is also one of few seriously abused children who miraculously made it to adulthood. This painful emotional true story, A Child Called It, is the first of a trilogy describing in vivid, horrific detail...

Pros: a story everyone should be aware of

Cons: it is a sickening tale of horrifying child abuse

Review: Like many others who've reviewed this book, I've had A Child Called 'It' just sitting on my shelf for awhile. Why you may ask would one buy a book only to let it sit there? Well, I wanted to read this book. I wanted to read the story of this...

Pros: Chilling saga of child abuse and neglect

Cons: Almost too tragic to read

The Bottom Line: Incredibly sad and graphic documentary of a life of child abuse

Review: Tortured, physically and mentally, from the time he was four years old to thirteen, David Pelzer's story compels you to understand and think about the amount of abuse and torture a physical mind and body can take before reaching a breaking point, if...

Pros: Written in a style that is very readable despite the graphic content presented.

Cons: Author leaves you hanging with how the rest of his life unfolded.

The Bottom Line: If you're reading this for inspiration, skip it. This book is a stream of consciousness detailing some horrific abuse.

Review: Although I completed reading this book some time ago, it's extremely difficult to decide just what to write about it. I came into it thinking that I was going to read a story of inspiration. I thought that although the topic was not a happy...

Pros: An honest account of child abuse in our country.

Cons: The fact that this could ever happen.

Review: He was starved and tortured by his mother. He was neglected by his father. He was shunned by his brothers. And he was teased and bullied by his peers. Yet somehow Dave Pelzer miraculously survived his...

Pros: Inspirational, Courageous

Cons: Very difficult to endure the horrible passages

Review: What can be more demoralizing to a child than losing his identity in the world? Can you think of anything sadder than a child who was not considered human by his own family?

This book is an autobiography written by David Pelzer about the...

Pros: Excellent story of a boy's fight for survival

Cons: Fairly Graphic

Review: This is one of the best books, although tragic, that I have ever read. It is simply amazing what this child is put through and yet he manages to live to tell about it.

This book is about a little boy and child abuse, "the third worst case...