In the summer of 1991
I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved
me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I
was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen
years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced
to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation. On
August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I don’t
think of myself as a victim. I survived. A Stolen Life is my story—in my
own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.
I only read an NY Times review of this (because I had a feeling it was not going to work and didn't want to download it if it was about what I though it was!), but I think this one is really inappropriate. It looks like she describes being sexually abused by her kidnapper (based on some of the quotations in the article), which would be troubling to read for an adult and very troublesome for us to make required reading.
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