A Child called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer. The setting of this story was in San Francisco, California. This a book about a boy called David which is the author who was brutally beaten and starved by his mentally ill, and alcoholic mother. His mother thinks of it as some kind of games – games that almost left him dead. Dave had to learn how to play his mother’s game in order to survive. His mother never treats him as her own son, but a slave; she calls him “it.” His father was a fireman, when his wife started to treat their son badly he ignore it. This book is very inspiring, the author was making his life meaningful by writing a book about it and spread the message about how bad is child