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

By:

Pelzer, David J [Author]

Material type: Text

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Withdrawn	G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN	Non-fiction	HV883.C2P45 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1 Not for loan		31923000938494

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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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