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I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation. On August 26, , I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I dont think of myself as a victim. I survived By: Jaycee Dugard.

Abused from the age of eight by her older brother and then her step-father, Maureen Wood quickly became numb to the constant suffering. A Family Secret is the harrowing true story of how one little girl survived sickening abuse by the people who should have loved her most and how an innocent baby finally saved her.

By: Maureen Wood. Under the cover of anonymity, Paul Saunders courageously tells his shockingly true story of how he and his stepsiblings were repeatedly abused by their mother and stepfather. By: P. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined.

By: Gregg Olsen. My Prison without Bars is a courageous and harrowing journey through the catacombs of hell, from the mind and voice of a little girl, living with her own monster underneath her bed. Written in first person, this novel is not a memoir, but more a psychological thriller based on true events; chronicling one woman's attempt to claw her way out of the darkness of Child Sexual Abuse, while struggling to find normal, in a not-so-normal world.

It is poignant, dark and graphic; not for the faint of heart. By: Taylor Evan Fulks. After years of suffering multiple forms of abuse, a vulnerable young girl flees her home only to land straight into the arms of her biological father - a sexual predator. After a terrible dark secret comes to light, the real story unfolds and her courageous journey of healing begins. By: Lily Palazzi. In the best-selling tradition of Smashed and The Glass Castle , this raw, eye-opening memoir tells the powerful story of Elizabeth Garrison's fractured childhood, descent into teenage drug addiction, and struggle to overcome nearly insurmountable odds.

Elizabeth invites the listener behind the closed doors of a picture-perfect Christian family to reveal a dark, hidden world of child abuse, domestic violence, and chilling family secrets all performed in the name of God under the tyrannical rule of her father.

By: Elizabeth Garrison. Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass. At the Social Services office, Cathy an experienced foster carer is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's challenging behaviour has seen off five carers in four months.

Despite her reservations, Cathy decides to take on Jodie to protect her from being placed in an institution. By: Cathy Glass. Growing up in a deeply troubled family, year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world.

So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention, and agreed to go home with him to meet his family. She wouldn't escape for over a decade. Held captive by a sadistic pedophile, Anna was subjected to despicable levels of sexual abuse and torture. The unrelenting violence and degradation resulted in numerous miscarriages, and the birth of four babies By: Anna Ruston. Barbara was 12 when she was admitted to the psychiatric hospital Aston Hall in From a troubled home, she'd hoped she would find sanctuary there.

But during her stay, Barbara was systematically drugged and abused by its head physician, Dr Kenneth Milner. Somehow, eventually, she started to campaign for answers. This is a shocking account of how vulnerable children were preyed upon by the doctor entrusted with their care. By: Barbara O'Hare. Dave was in first grade when his unstable alcoholic mother began attacking him. Until he was in fifth grade, she starved, beat, and psychologically ravaged her son. Eventually denying even his identity, Dave's mother called him an "it" instead of using his name.

Relentlessly, she drove him to the brink of death before authorities finally stepped in. With faith and hope, Dave grew determined to survive. He also knew that he needed to share his story. A Child Called "It" is the first of three books that chronicle his life. Through publications and public appearances, Dave is now recognized as one of the nation's most effective and respected speakers about child abuse. She later told Stephen Colbert that she accomplished pretty much everything on that list, and will pay back the people who helped her get where she is.

It was simple advice, but the concept of writing a list to call things into existence is a common method of goal-setting. I read this book before listening to it. I knew it would be good and it was. I recomend this. Being an adoptive and foster parent myself, this story is especially personal.

I certainly can believe it may be all true and have heard similar stories in my area. Let this story inspire you to get involved! In my state alone there children in the foster care system looking for forever families.

Would you listen to A Child Called 'It' again? It holds your attention with a very real story. Which character — as performed by Brian Keeler — was your favorite? Dave Pelzer. Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? It made me cry. Any additional comments? Highly recommended. Just a horribly sad story. I feel so bad for that poor child. How could a mother be that cruel? Listener beware: some of the incidents are utterly gross.

Not for those with light stomachs. I truly hopes this helps educate others on child abuse. He bought numerous copies of his own book to inflate sales records so that the book would have a better chance at getting on bestseller lists. Again, I can concede that he was only helping his writing along by wanting his book to be seen by a greater audience. However, and here is the kicker for me, if this story is true, then shouldn't just writing it and getting the story told redemption enough for Pelzer?

A story of this magnitude should be told, there's no doubt about that. But it should be told with grace and humility. Pelzer should have approached this book as an avatar to the thousands of other kids out there that don't have a voice. Instead, Pelzer grandstands and makes the issue of child abuse seem like a sensationalistic piece of family trivia. Very disappointing. View all 72 comments. Oct 05, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: adult , 20th-century , biography , united-states , non-fiction , memoir.

He is best known for his memoir of childhood abuse, A Child Called "It". It is the story of the early years of a boy's life, and a real and moving memory. It is Dave Pelzer's childhood, under torture and brutal starvation by his mother who was unstable and constantly intoxicated. From the mother's point of view, her son was no longer her beloved child, he was a slave, nor a boy, but "nothing" and that was "It".

The boy's bed, or old military blanket, was in the basement. His clothes were torn and frail. If the mother allowed him to eat, he would eat only the leftovers in the dog foods.

He endured years of struggle, deprivation and despair, to fulfill his dreams, and to leave something of himself in this world. Easily the most terrifying book I've ever read. I think I had literally repressed the memory of it, until I randomly happened across the title this week.

I experienced this book in a fairly odd way, during a week-long cheerleading camp my sophomore year of high school. My coach was reading it and somehow ended up reading the entire book aloud to my squad during breaks and at night. Once she started, we were all addicted and spent every free moment listening with rapt and horrified attention. I r Easily the most terrifying book I've ever read. I remember with almost painful clarity the way in which we sat at her feet listening to this story of a boy who endured a long childhood of astonishing, sadistic abuse at the hands of his mother.

Girls were crying for long stretches, and not being a crier myself, I listened in a sort of shell-shocked, wide-eyed paralysis. After every single part of the reading, I was convinced it couldn't get worse, that she couldn't possibly do anything worse to that little boy. And every single time I was wrong. I'm not sure I would actually recommend this book or not. It is good - very good - but reads with the sort of harrowing inhumanity of a Holocaust memoir. Not light reading, and not a feel-good "I survived the odds" story.

It kind of just makes you want to go home and tell your parents that you love them, and then bawl your eyes out. View all 12 comments. Mar 23, Kohei rated it it was amazing Shelves: school-year-book.

Dave Pelzer, the author of the autobiographical book, A Child Called It, shows the very dark corners of child abuse by viewing to the readers his horrific life as a young boy living with his mother that constantly abused him. Dave Pelzer, who lived with his unstable, disturbed, alcoholic mother in a town in California during the early 70's, explains his story about his torturous unforgettable years as a young boy.

Throughout the story, he does his best to survive from his mother and tries to stay alive from the pain of hunger, bruises and cuts he receives. The only thing that keeps him alive are his dreams, wanting a happy and safe family, and also being someone. Once you have read the last word of the story, and closed the book, you will definitely know that this book has just changed your life, and your perspective of issues like these around the world, trust me, that is a fact.

View all 16 comments. Jul 05, Maria Elmvang rated it did not like it Shelves: biographies , , not-owned , non-fiction , 1-star. I did not like this book. But that's okay. You're not supposed to like it.

It's a horrible, horrible book. A trainwreck of a book. I wanted to look away, but just couldn't. I know it's the first part in a trilogy, but I doubt I'm going to read the other two books.

It was too, too depressing. Actually, the person I got most angry with was the father. The mother was obviously sick and needed help. There's no other explanation for the awful things she subjected her son to.

But what's the father's ex I did not like this book. But what's the father's excuse? He just stood by and did nothing? No, that's not true - he stood by and did nothing I don't get it. Nowhere in the book was it stated that he seemed afraid of his wife, so why did he allow her to treat their son so horribly?

You don't just stand by and let your SO practically kill your son, you just don't! There were two things I would have liked to know: 1 What made David different from the rest of his brothers? Why was he the one who was treated so horribly? If his mother had had some kind of reason, just something that set him apart, it would at least be part of an explanation even if it's no excuse, but it seemed totally random. I guess it was Did she get some kind of help?

Were her other boys taken away from her too? The book ended in a cliff-hanger fashion which annoyed me. Too many loose ends. I don't recommend it. Most of you would never treat a child like that anyway, and if you would, no amount of reading about it would change your opinion that you're in the 'right'.

The only time I would encourage reading it is if you know somebody you fear may be subjected to child abuse, or if you want to be convinced that you should become a foster parent. View all 22 comments. Oh my god, what can I possibly say about this book? When I first started reading this book last year, I was just so hooked to it and I just wanted to know everything about this book. It was all about this author's childhood gone horrible with the extreme abuse, the torture and suffering.

I really couldn't believe my eyes, the author described like, everything he went through, all the pain he had to go through, how he felt and everything. I could really understand how he felt but one thing about Oh my god, what can I possibly say about this book? I could really understand how he felt but one thing about this book I don't get at all is how his own mother transformed from a loving mother to a nightmarish, abusive mother so quickly. I mean, the author was only, like a little boy when his mother started abusing him.

This book is extremely emotional and can make you feel so bad for the author and even cry so. This book was all about the author's childhood and how he survived through such abuse, starvation, and neglect. This also showed how bad things happen to good people - the author's own father didn't even help out at all - he was once a fun, loving fireman, turned into an alcoholic, carless father.

He was pratically stabbed in the belly and had to go through such pain. In the end, he told the school the truth and he was finally taken out of the horrible home, with the abusive mother, two brothers that weren't treated horribly at all and the careless, alcoholic father - and put into a much better home - foster home.

I loved this first book so much that I even continued on to the next book! A lot of thanks goes to my teacher, for lending me the books - it's one of my most favorites!

Mar 16, Sammy rated it it was amazing Shelves: a-the-best. Okay, this is going to be a short and sweet review since it's a non-fictional autobiography and you can't really critique things like characters and story.

But I'm going to say what I can This book was a hard one to read yet I couldn't put it down. There's a different something in Dave's story that will keep different people reading. Mine was: Why? I wanted to know why his mother did this. I wanted to know what made her do it. I wanted to know how she could to it. And I wanted to know why it w Okay, this is going to be a short and sweet review since it's a non-fictional autobiography and you can't really critique things like characters and story.

And I wanted to know why it was Dave she picked out of him and his brothers. What made Dave the one she singled out for such monstrous torture. But that's something people involved in child abuse cases ask themselves every day. You really do feel for Dave.

You don't feel with him because there are moments so bad that he has to disconnect himself. I couldn't do that while reading it though. I almost felt that if I could send my anger and frustration and sadness and hope out there it would stop.

Of course it was foolish of me seeing as it happened many years ago and he's a grown man who escaped his mothers claws. I was only annoyed by the fact that the book was too short and that dividing his story into three seperate books seemed unnecessary.

Especially because by the end the reader has become so invested in Dave and feels like they're such a part of his life, they want to go with him as he continues on to the next, hopefully happier chapter in his life. Perhaps it was a publishers marketing scheme to get more money or something. Goodness knows it wasn't Dave's. His goal was to tell his story, thank those who helped him, and open a door to shed light on an issue that is often hidden away. All of which he accomplished magnificently.

What we learn in Dave's story is that child abuse is real. It comes in many forms, but it's out there and it's up to those of us in the lives of children to stand up and be the voice for the abused.

Another thing we learn is to not back down in that fight, of course there will be road blocks, but if you champion for a child as those special people in Dave's life did, you can help. You can save a life, heart, and soul. You can give a child hope. This book is a must-read I'd say. I of course went out and got the follow-up I hate to use the word sequel with something like this and read it right away. That's a review to follow later. If you are debating about reading this book I will just say that it is a hard read.

If you're a mother it will probably be especially hard. If you have a deep compassion and love for children it will probably be hard. If you yourself have experienced abuse it will probably be hard. If you just have a heart it will be hard. But don't give up. It would be even harder to just quit in the middle, trust me on that. It's that end, despite being a beginning, that will bring tears to your eyes and a much needed smile to your face.

View all 5 comments. Jul 18, Rebecca rated it it was ok Shelves: nonfiction. I've sat with this book on my desk for a couple weeks, unable to decide what I would write for a review. I'm wholly torn between this being one of my most-asked-for and least-favorite-ever titles.

Eric's Goodreads review says pretty much what I would say. The writing was cliched I've sat with this book on my desk for a couple weeks, unable to decide what I would write for a review. The writing was cliched and the "plot" moved along by way of "one day," "one Sunday," or "later.

There is absolutely no process of recovery or explanation or psychological background, and the book leaves huge questions open, saying "Please understand that many of your questions will be answered in the next two books in the trilogy series. It's a great marketing gimmick for fiction, but not for a supposedly true story.

That kind of self-exploitation leaves a bad taste in my mouth. All that being said, I am going to try to take this book for what it is: an excellent awareness-raiser about child abuse; a survival story that may help many think "if he can get through that, I can get through anything"; and a simple, quick, can't-look-away-from-the-train-wreck read that kids and teens have given a cult following. May they then move on to something better. View all 17 comments.

In The Child Called "It" , a true story that can bring tears to the eyes of anyone with a beating heart, Dave, the protagonist, is abused in the most horrifying ways possible. What kind of mother would want to hurt their own little child? David's mom's actions can prove that wrong. Hours later I bent over in extreme pain While I was sick, Mother informed me she had purposefully left the meat in the refrigerator for two weeks, to spoil before she threw it away" Pelzer The book tells of a little child, Dave, the protagonist, who goes through many troubles throughout the book.

He lives with his crazy, obnoxious, abusive mother who would go out of her way to torture David. His father, who had once been his guardian angel, has left the family because of all the argument after arguments he had with David's mother. Dave's mother would do crazy things like, putting his hands over the oven, lock him in the bathroom with deadly chemicals, or she doesn't feed him for really long.

This book can make me cry all over again every time ii read it. I can relate to the terror little David has to go through, because my mother wasn't much different from David's mom. Get your tissues ready. You'll need it. After reading this book, you'll then understand the what really goes on in the world. It's called reality. People on the news just say what happens, but have never told you the details that make you want to slap the abuser. You'll like this book.

Actually, rephrase that -- you'll LOVE this book! View all 31 comments. Nov 06, Whitney Atkinson added it Shelves: read-in , memoir , audiobook. It feels wrong quantifying this with a star rating, but this book was one of the oldest on my TBR and I'm glad I got to it. I do with that this trilogy was consolidated into one book with the author's current-day perspective sprinkled it, because as is, it's a short collection of what happened to him without any real perspective or understanding of it until a tacked-on epilogue.

It was still heartbreaking and confusing--and I can't tell who I hate more, the abusive mom or the dad who stood by an It feels wrong quantifying this with a star rating, but this book was one of the oldest on my TBR and I'm glad I got to it.

It was still heartbreaking and confusing--and I can't tell who I hate more, the abusive mom or the dad who stood by and watched. This is packed full of description and action, but lacked the hindsight and explanations I wanted as a reader who isn't necessarily interested in the entire trilogy, so I wish it would have unpacked more of it in this single volume. Oct 16, Rebbie rated it it was amazing Shelves: , favorites.

I've been avoiding this book since I was a teenager. I did so because this is a trigger for me and I knew I couldn't handle it. I figured that it's been two years since I cut my mother out of my life and that I finally feel free. And strong That's got to be better than nothing. Anyway, this isn't about me so instead I'll say that no matter what, I'm glad I read it. I feel I have a duty to face other true stories of horrific child abuse, if o I've been avoiding this book since I was a teenager.

I feel I have a duty to face other true stories of horrific child abuse, if only to put on the armor of bravery and show children that they don't need to run from the horror of their abuser's glee; that life can be good and it can feel somewhat safe. Don't let them win. Even if we never understand why they chose us and not our sibling s , it's ok.

The author was interviewed and invited to prestigious television shows and received the attention deserving of his courage and the topicality of the shameful reality to which he stands witness. He recounts in first person an alarming experience that reeks of his blood, sweat and tears — a remarkable survival story that also brings to the fore the extreme brutality and inhumanity humans are capable of and in this case a subversion of the maternal instinct - a predisposition that we assume is primordial.

Besides disbelief and utter shock that such a scenario could actually exist — what comes through clearly is the indomitable courage of a child against such relentless odds.

Broken completely in body and with no stone left unturned to completely wreck his spirit, this child somehow retains his sanity in the face of the kind of torment one cannot even expect from the completely depraved. I connected so well with it': a teen mother talks about reading By Cynthia Miller Coffel.

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