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Name: A Child Called It
Rating: 4.0 (1 reviews)
Author: Dave Pelzer
ISBN: 9780613171373

A Child Called It

One Child's Courage to Survive

by Dave Pelzer

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Readers' Rating (268):

First Published:
Oct 1, 1999, 184 pages

Paperback:
Oct 1995, 184 pages

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joy

best book ever

To start off I really don't like to read at all, but reading this changed my whole mind set on life. I could not put this book down when I started reading. I read this book in one day. I have never read a book this good EVER. I can't wait to read other books by him.

sammy

omg

omg love this book...this is a book that i read when I think my life is bad....it makes me realize that yeah, things may be bad, but there not as bad as they could be!!

shonna

sad story

This book is very sad, but very good. If I get the chance I will read it over - you should too!

Simone

wow.

I am a 13 year old, and this book touched me like no other!! I cried, I smiled, and I even screamed! This book is like no other! It's warming, sweet, astonishing, and sad! I thank God every day for giving me a wonderful mother to depend on!! I ALSO WISH DAVE PELZER A WONDERFUL HAPPY LIFE!!
THANK YOU,
~simone

Yesenia

A Child Called It

I thought this book was amazing because how he suffered was really astonishing. I am wondering if his mother felt ashamed of how she treated Dave?

a girl

I have read this book. it was heart touching and very sad. Why didn't she go to jail? I mean she deserved it.

MARIA L. CANO

A child called It

This has been the most greatest book of all time. I have never loved a book so much like this one. It let me realize that no matter how kids are they will always be kids and no one has the right to mistreat them. I cried and cried throughout the book. I recommended a lot, I could say I am not much of a reader but this is a great book. Bless your heart for telling us your story. Because of this I never hit my kids. I do put them in time out but I don't believe in miss treating them.;

Thank You

Jessica Wright

Love of Christ

Just finished both books - "A Child Called "It" and "The Lost boy". Couldn't put them down.

How wonderful that David not only survived but became such a wonderful. caring person.

The thing that touched me most was that no matter how badly he was treated by mother or father, he always forgave them and craved their love. Talk about having the "love of Christ", he certainly does.

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