SSR Summary

Marissa Goliszewski
Period 3
Title: A Child Called It
By: David Pelzer

In the book, "A Child Called It," there is a four year old little boy that gets abused and his mother is the one who abuses him. A mother who acted all sweet and like a mother in the past years betrayed her own son and treated him like dirt all because she started drinking. He gets beaten for no reason at all just to make his mother feel better. He gets beaten whether it’s just punched or kicked or put over a stove and burned, his mother even told him to eat his little brothers dirty diaper. “IT”s father tries to help him as much as he can, but at times it is hard for him to because of his wife. When his father is at home, his mother doesn't do anything. When he goes to school he takes other kids lunches because he never gets any food. He is lucky if he gets his brothers left over fruity pebbles that are left over in the bowl. Sometimes he gets caught stealing other kids lunches and when he does the principle and teacher find all these bruises all over his body and ask what happened. They to talk to him about it but doesn’t want to so they call the police and sees what happens after that. That is all I read so far in my book.