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A child called "it" : an abused child's journey from victim to victor / Dave Pelzer. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Deerfield Beach, Florida : Health Communications, (c)1995.Description: xi, 184 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780613171373
  • 9781558743663
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV883.P393.C455 1995
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Contents:
Good times -- Bad boy -- The fight for food -- The accident -- While father is away -- The Lord's Prayer -- Epilogue -- Perspectives on child abuse.
Subject: [This book] is [an] account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games - games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it." -Back cover.
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Withdrawn G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN Non-fiction HV883.C2P45 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 31923000938494

Originally published: Omaha Nebraska : Omaha Press Pub. Company, 1993.

The rescue -- Good times -- Bad boy -- The fight for food -- The accident -- While father is away -- The Lord's Prayer -- Epilogue -- Perspectives on child abuse.

[This book] is [an] account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games - games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it." -Back cover.

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