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  Title

  A child called 'It'

  Author

  Pelzer, David J.,  

  Publisher:

  Orion Books,

  Pub date:

  2014.

  Pages:

  xi, 169, 25, 22 pages ;

  ISBN:

  9781409151395

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Centennial - Progress.
  

  • 9781409151395
  • Holdings			MARC Record View
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    	Copy	Material	Location
    HV883 .C2 P45 2014	1	Book - 7 Day Loan	On the shelf

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  Pelzer, David J.,
  
  
  

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  Personal Author:

  Pelzer, David J.,

  Title:

  A child called 'It' / Dave Pelzer.

  Publication info:

  London Orion Books, 2014.

  Copyright info:

  Þ1995.

  Physical description:

  xi, 169, 25, 22 pages ; 20 cm.

  General Note:

  Originally published in United State of America by Health Communications, Inc.

  Contents:

  1.The Rescue -- 2.Good Times -- 3.Bad Boy -- 4.The Fight for Food -- 5.The Accident -- 6.While Father Is Away -- 7.The Lord's Prayer.

  Summary:

  Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother -- a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and unwashed, and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dog's bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors. But throughout Dave kept alive dreams of finding a family to love him. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting and inspirational book of the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive.

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  Personal subject:

  Pelzer, David J.

  Subject term:

  Abused children--California--Daly City--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Children of alcoholics--California--Daly City--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Abusive mothers--Family relationships--California--Daly City.

  Subject term:

  Family violence--California--Daly City.

  Geographic term:

  Daly City (Calif.)--Biography.