A Child Called It

I have a book called , A child called it where a six year old , lives with his family and other siblings. Dave and his mother does not get along very well. She treats him worse than his other siblings. She does some bad things to him like she puts Clorox in a bucket which makes him sick because of the gases. He has to sleep in a garage with nothing but an old army cot. She makes Dave brothers not to talk or even be okay with him. Dave was not aloud to have food for seven days she plays around  him with him "food"  Dave has to clean up while his mother does some pretty bad stuff She always drinking planning something terrible for.

Dave is feeling disconnected and unnoticed able at school, his classmates does not  like him and won't talk to him or even try to be his friend. He has to wear the same clothes everyday because of his mother  she won't take the time out of her day to buy him new clothes to wear , she basically makes him wear the same clothes.  He also has to steal kids lunches in his class room or he rans to the gas station by his school and also steals food from there. She makes him throw up to see if he ate anything. But Dave continues to keep holding on as much as he can to survive.

In the mean time while everything is still happening , Dave is still trying to put up with the stuff his mom is making him do , Daves dad is never around that much but when he was he didn't help save Dave at all which mad Dave feel some type of way.  He still going through the same stuff with his mom until teachers at school starts to see what's going on. Read the book a Child Called to find out what happenes next. It may be a sad book but it's a very good one to read.

Book Review by Zenobia H.