I read this book for the first time when I was in middle school. It's been several years since I picked up A Child Called It and I've certainly been able to look at it with new eyes. Since middle school, I have worked for both an inner city mission and for a nonprofit humanitarian organization that focuses on neglected children around the world.

Dave Pelzer's story is devastating. It will never be my place to question whether or not the events he described occurred, as some people have. Instead, I can only focus on the goal that what happened to Dave will never happen to another child again, as best as I can help.

The language in this book is very simplistic, almost as if a child wrote it. I'm not sure if this was Pelzer's intention, but this made it a quick read. I read cover-to-cover over my hour-long lunch break at work.