A child called it/Dave Pelzer
Health Communications Inc. 1997,340 pps.
Non-Fiction

Imagine living with a monster. A monster that beats you every day. A heartless monster. A monster, which engulfs you into life-threatening games. A monster who doesn’t accept you as one of their own. That monster may also be your mom.
This child’s name is David. His mother was once loving and mindful. She took him to the park, bought him a bike, he had his own room and bed. Until the alcohol sunk its teeth into her mind. David’s dad tried to help but is controlled by the mother. She tortures him by doing the most heartless. She turned into an alcoholic. His dad on the other hand, just witnesses the inhumane things his mother does. She makes him eat his brother’s poop, Hits him if he moves, Lock him in a room full of chemical gas, Makes him hold his breathe underwater, etc. This drags on for years until his teacher finds out that he’s been beaten and tortured so she goes to the police about this problem. From there on he’s out of his mother’s custody for now.
This book was pretty emotional throughout. It had some pretty nasty stuff in there. I was amazed when I found out this was real. Though, some problems the main character has to go through we’re obvious to figure out, like book when David has been stealing food from the school he was in because he wasn’t hungry after school when he came home. Some parts had some inconsistencies that led on into the beginning of the second book The Lost Boy. For example, at the end of A Child Called It it shows him leaving the school to go into the police car, but in the beginning of the lost boy, he still “lived” his mother’s house.
Pretty much, this book was pretty cool to read from the point of view of David. Some parts were pretty sad to read. But that’s probably why this is addictive. And I’m anxious to finish the second book in the series. I’d recommend this book for a lot of people to read, just see their reactions when they get to the nasty part.