A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer

The book A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer is a book that the reader will not be able to put down. This book takes place in Dally City, California. It is about a young boy who is abused by his alcoholic mother. He must survive on his own in order to live to see the next day. I would say this is one of my favorite books. I like it not for what happened but the fact that it was written so well. The author uses great discriptions of what it was like for him to be there, I felt like I was actually in the book with him. In this passage he is decribing hs mother and how she has changed so from what he had remembered as a little kid, "She still has a hangover from last nights super. Her once beautiful, shiny hair is now frazzled clumps. As usual she wear no makeup. She is over weight, and she knows it." I thought this was an interesting but yet descriptive way to have the reader make a visual of what he is talking about. Also he says in a sentence describing his clothes, My long sleeve shirt has more holes than Swiss Cheese. "I could tell exactly what the author, Dave Pelzer was wearing by saying it was like Swiss Cheese. To me that is part of the reason I liked readings his many books, because it was so descrpitive and had a lot of thhing that you could think about while reading it. I really liked this book and think that people who want a suspence story but also a story that you just can't put down, this would be a good story for you.