Heart-felt plea for help!!! (Lost Boy, The - Dave Pelzer)

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Product:	Lost Boy, The - Dave Pelzer
Date:	18/04/02 (11 review reads)
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Advantages: Couragous and inspiration to others, Good read, Value for money

Disadvantages: Makes you cry

A Child Called "It" is the unforgettable story of a child whose courage and unyielding determination enabled him to survive extreme life-threatening odds.I found the book to be a heat felt plea for help by Dave and it made my realize that you should life your life to the max because it could all go when you least except it to happen.
As a child, Dave was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous games--games that left him Dave nearly dead. With only his willpower to survive, Dave learned how to play his Mother's sinister games in order to survive because she no longer considered Dave a son but a slave, and no longer a boy but an "It."
Although A Child Called "It" contains situations of mistreatment Dave suffered, it is a real life story of the indomitable human spirit. This gripping account is told through the eyes of a child--who will pay any price in order to succeed.
Dave is a very brave man to tell his story to the world and I know that I would not like to have people no what my childhood was like- good or bad.I feel this book is an inspiration to child out in the world who are being abused and should give them the courage to tell someone.
A child called "it" made the child in me feel overjoyed that I never suffered the pain and abused that dave went through but I also feel disgusted that a person can do such disgusting and nasty things to such a young,scared boy.
The book shows courage and inspiration to everyone in the world and that talking does help.

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