David is six years old and lives in a family of five other children with more to come later. David's mother isn’t nice to him. She treats him poorly compared to his other siblings. She puts clorox in a bucket which makes him sick because of the gases. She traps in him the bathroom for 20 minutes which causes him to cough up blood because it is so bad. He sleeps in the garage with nothing but an old army cot. His brothers are forced to ignore him while they play outside. His mother starves him up to seven days and uses food to tease David. While he does chores for his mother, she is either drunk lying on the couch or planning something terrible for David .
At school David is isolated and lonely. All of his classmates despise him and won't talk to him or try to be his friend. David wears the same clothes everyday. He steals lunches from kids in his class and runs to a gas station by his school to steal food. When he comes home from school his mother makes him throw up to see if he ate anything. She will make him sit in the basement on his hands for hours. At the end of the day david is extremely exhausted and prays to god why this is happening to him.
His father barely comes home to visit the family because he doesn't want to deal with mother and watch his son suffer. Teachers and school nurses are starting to figure out that david is getting abused . Sooner or later they called the police and david was put into a foster home.
Book Review by Rachel D.
