Book: "A Child Called 'It'"

[Monopoly]

This book by Dave Pelzer is one of the greatest books I have ever read.
It is about a child who is mentally and physically abused by his alcohol mother. His name is David but overtime his mother stops using his name and just refers to his as "The Boy". If you love books you should really give this a read, it, even though it is extremely sad, is one amazing book.

The blurb:


This Million-Selling, New York Times number one best-seller, is the Author's heart rendering sotry of his struggles to live through a childhood beaten and neglected by his alcoholic mother, eventually finding a family who love him. It is the first of a trilogy based on the child's life from age 8-12.


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[N-Dubz]

it depressed me when i read it for the first time.

[Monopoly]

It really is amazing though, don't you think?
Like really well writen.

[splatttt]

Ive read that.
and the whole book series

a man named dave &
moving foward

i think :)

[Monopoly]

A man called Davev is the last one i think.
I havn't read the next two though, I only got the first one today. :)

[thoushallbegod]

My mum took it away with her last year when we went Turkey I had a read but I don't enjoy books really but it seemed a good read.

[splatttt]

they are amazing.
ive read alot of books like it now
id say 20 - 25
and there are loads more sadder ones :(

[Monopoly]

Could you give any example, please?
I find them really interested and it makes me thankful for my own life not being as horrific.

[.Nickie]

i think it is one of the best books i have ever read.
i gotta say if you liked that book then you should read noughts and crosses its much better and if you like sad books then its the one for ya its about racism. About how a white boy falls in love with a black girl and gets beaten for it -.-" i wont say any more but yeah. theres 2 add-ons for it called 'knifes edge' and 'Checkmate' theres also a smaller book called "An Eye For An Eye " which i have never been able to get hold of. They are all amazing.

[splatttt]

well there not alll like a child called it, but they are like people who have had really bad lives.

Dont tell mummy
Please daddy no
Hidden
Abandand
Ugly
Dont ever Tell
Handstands in the Dark
Damaged
Not without my sisters
The little prisoner
Ghost Girl
One child
The tigers child
Just another kid
Silent boy
betrayed
Daddys little girl


thats just a small few that ive read.
i cant remeber any more what ive read, id have to look on my shelf hahaa.
some of them are so good. :)



i think it is one of the best books i have ever read.
i gotta say if you liked that book then you should read noughts and crosses its much better and if you like sad books then its the one for ya its about racism. About how a white boy falls in love with a black girl and gets beaten for it -.-" i wont say any more but yeah. theres 2 add-ons for it called 'knifes edge' and 'Checkmate' theres also a smaller book called "An Eye For An Eye " which i have never been able to get hold of. They are all amazing.

ive read that! its so sad :(

[samsaBEAR]

ive never read a child called it, ive always meant to but i just havent got around to it.
noughts and crosses i thought was really boring

[MJJ]

I've read that book and the others along with it as well. It was really sad the way he was treated. :(
I've also read the Noughts & Crosses trilogy, its one of my favourite books, and I'd definetly recommend it.

[Ugawa]

That book seems really sad =[

I'll give it a read if i can find it nywhere

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