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As a professional working with children in foster care through a supervised visitation program, I found that at times I had difficulty putting this book down and then at other times, I could barely stand to read more. This book gave me an insight into the lives of the children I serve that I did not have previously. I also read A Child Called It and am now reading the third book in the series, A Man Named Dave. Pelzer's story gives me renewed hope for the children I work with and reignites my committment to protecting these children.
Everything was basically fine with the book but some of the pages in the front were folded on the corners and the outside looks a little weathered.
This is the second installment in the memoirs by Dave Pelzer. It is interesting to hear the varied families that entered his life, the struggles to finally be free to be a "normal" child while trying to adjust to impending manhood. After being rescued by social services, Dave faces the dynamics of foster care. Wanting desperately to be loved and accepted contrasted with an understandably guarded heart. Beyond the sacrifices and work of workers and foster parents, the people who stepped in and mentored him are an inspiration. Like all "middles" to a trilogy this book only opened more questions than it answered.
This was an amazing story, told from a perspective only someone who lived through could say so well. An awesome awesome story.
This is the second book in the trio. Dave writes about his fair share of trouble with the law and pranks he pulls with his friends. Also Richard writes about dave showing up at their fathers funeral and having a confrontation with the mother at the end.
There seems to be some differing details from Richard and Dave's books. His father was his hero and meant so much to him, I would think it would have been part of his memories and story in this book. I read Dave Pelzer's "A Child Called "IT" first, then his brother, Richard's book, then this book.
Dave mentions nothing about his father's death or funeral. For example when Dave writes about meeting Russell at school and nearly runs into his mother (but doesn't). Richard writes that it was he who met Dave at school (not Russell) and there was confrontation between the mother and Dave.
I don't know who is right and the differences in stories and people have me not believing the story.This book is about Dave's struggles in different foster homes and how at the time society viewed foster children and parents as "trash". Again he spends pages repeating on something so minute and at other times spends only a few sentences describing weeks of time.
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