A Child called "IT"

Francheska Chour

1/14/13

Reading writing workshop

Book Review #1

The book A Child called “it” by Dave Pelzer is a tragic story about a boy who gets physically abused by his mother. The little boys name is Dave; he has three other brothers and lives with both his parents. In the beginning, Dave’s mom used to love him but it quickly started to change. She called him a bad boy and punished him harshly. She starved him, made him her own personal maid, locked him in the bathroom with the smell of Clorox and other deadly chemicals, she even made him eat poop, vomit, and left over crumbs from breakfast or dinner as his meal. His brothers and father didn’t do anything, at first they watched sadly but after some time they didn’t even show any affection towards him. I liked reading this book because it talked about every incident briefly. My favorite part was when they went to a family trip and Dave’s mom was forcing him to eat his brother’s poop. I liked it because he was really descriptive and showed a lot of emotion in the chapter. My least favorite part was when she made him throw up and eat it again and his father just watched without doing anything. I recommend this book for anyone that likes memoirs because it keeps you awake and won’t let you put the book down. I believe this book should be for teens ranging from 14-17 years old because it has a lot of curses and its very violent. I would rate this book a four out of four stars because it was really good and it actually teaches you a lot about abuse and about what others around you might be going through without you thinking about it and not judging people because you never know what happens when they are home.