![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also tells Dave that he’s forbidden from watching TV or eating dinner. One day, however, Mother yells that Dave will be held back in school because he’s a bad boy. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting and inspirational look at the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive despite the odds. Dave loves school because it’s an escape from Mother. It took many years of struggle, deprivation and despair to find his dream and then to make something of himself in the world. But throughout Dave kept alive dreams of finding a family to love him, care for him, call him their son. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dogs' bowl. Buy My Story: A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, A Man Named Dave Later Printing by Pelzer, Dave (ISBN: 9781407219721) from Amazon's Book Store. Dave 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'. Dave Pelzer's story is the story of a child brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games - games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. ![]()
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