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020			_a0316731382 (hbk.) : _c£10.99
020			_a0316731390 : _cNo price
035			_a(Uk)013315348
035			_a(Nz)10521411
035			_a(OCoLC)62132524
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100	1		_aPelzer, Richard B.
245	1	2	_aA teenager's journey / _cRichard B. Pelzer.
260			_aLondon : _bTime Warner, _c2006.
263			_a200601
300			_a179 p. ; _c22 cm.
520			_aAt the end of A BROTHER'S JOURNEY, Richard Pelzer's mother and three brothers are moving to Salt Lake City, Utah. He has the choice of joining them - unwanted - or staying behind. But where can he live? What can he live on? Defeated - he follows them. So continues Richard's alcoholic mother's physical abuse of Richard. But gradually he is growing up - not just in years but stature. His mother cannot treat him in quite the same way and mostly it is with neglect. Richard runs away and tries to commit suicide several times, and he has a stint with a foster home. He turns to soft drugs, then hard drugs. Finally he goes to live with John and Darlene Nichols who try to show him some family love. At the age of 21 he gets a full time job and tries to learn to be a big brother to the foster parents' children. And begins to get his life together...An uplifting and inspiring story about someone who retains his religion and regains basic morals - despite everything going against him.
600	1	0	_aPelzer, Richard B.
650		0	_aAbused children _zCalifornia _vBiography.
650		0	_aChildren of alcoholics _zCalifornia _vBiography.
650		0	_aAbusive mothers _zCalifornia _xFamily relationships.
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