1. An autobiography written by Dave Pelzer. A Child Called “It”

2. New York Times and USA Today’s best selling book A Child Called “It”, is an inspirational story of one child’s courage to survive. This book is an autobiography written by Dave Pelzer about his horrific childhood. He talks about the unbelievable abuse he endured from the people who once loved him. The main person who made his life a true living hell was his own mother. For years she thought up new ways to torture him including starvation, making him sleep in a cold basement, making him her personal slave, and giving him relentless beatings. The terrible thing is that those were the lightest “punishments” he got from her. To learn about the darkest things he was put through you must read this heart retching book. I wouldn’t say this was a “good book” but it is a very eye opening book and would suggest that only mature people read it. The book is very well written and has literally a lot of painful details. All in all I would rate this book 4 and a half stars out of 5. I would give it 5 stars but the book is to depressing for me to be able to do that.Dave Pelzer

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtNYA4pAGjI&feature=player_detailpage Concrete Angel by Martina McBride She walks to school with the lunch she packed Nobody knows what she's holding back Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday She hides the bruises with the linen and lace, oh The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone In a world that she can't rise above But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place Where she's loved concrete angel Somebody cries in the middle of the night The neighbors hear but they turn out the light A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate When morning comes it will be too late Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone In a world that she can't rise above But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place Where she's loved concrete angel A statue stands in a shaded place An angel girl with an upturned face A name is written on a polished rock A broken heart that the world forgot Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone In a world that she can't rise above But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place Where she's loved concrete angel

4. Child Abuse Info More than 1.25 million, or 1 in every 58 children in the United States, were abused in 2006. More than half (61 percent) of the children (771,700 children) were victims of neglect Forms of neglect include educational neglect (360,500 children), physical neglect (295,300 children), and emotional neglect (193,400). Another 44 percent were victims of abuse (553,300 children), including physical abuse (325,000 children), sexual abuse (135,000 children), and emotional abuse (148,500 children). An average of nearly four children die every day as a result of child abuse or neglect (1,760 in 2007). pediatrics.about.com/od/childabuse/a/05_abuse_stats.htm