John O. (buzzby) - , reviewed on 4/5/2011 + 6062 more book reviews

I got this at the request of a 5th grader to give it to her, but I probably won't. It's a pretty painful story, I'm surprised more people here in their comments aren't asking whether it is true or not (NY Times tried to do some digging, but were unsuccessful - I'd say denial by some brothers and an absent grandmother is not really good evidence, mom died in 1992 and dad in 1980, so I'm inclined to take Dave Pelzer at his word). My indirect experience with child abuse as a child support attorney and a school teacher is that it does sometimes take an effort to care for some of these children. I don't think Dave was as adorable as the front cover shows - maybe the editors should have put a smelly, emaciated kid with chipped teeth on the cover and see what people's gut reaction would be.

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