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Summary: This book is for everyone!
Review: This second book in Dave's trilogy is as enthralling as the first ("A Child Called It)." Every child is precious, but the child David seems especially so because of what he endured and how he survived. I was fascinated by every stage of growth in Dave's life, and despite initial difficulties he took charge of his life and succeeded in every sense of the word. I am amazed at how hard David tried to please others who didn't deserve it. His capacity to forgive and love is unfathomable. I am especially impressed by his gratitude toward everyone who helped him, and this book thanks every one of these people with many wonderful examples. Dave is an angel to show appreciation and thanks to all the people who help abused and neglected children. I'm so glad he is making people more aware of how difficult life is for social workers and foster parents, and the prejudice they have to endure. I'm amazed how recently our socity has come out of the dark ages of child abuse, and that until recently there were few laws to protect children. David's life is so inspiring; anyone who reads this book will have a positive example to help them overcome just about anything. It's incredible how he was deprived of a normal life and education but he never made excuses - instead, he beat the odds and excelled, far more than others who have had a normal life. What a wonderful story to read again and again, to children of all ages!
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Summary: A Child Called "It"
Review: Hi, my name is ashley fitzpatrick and i read A Cild Called "It." It was the best book i have ever read and i am 11 years old. While reading this terrifing book, i realized that i dont have it that bad in life. My mother always tells me "there is always a kid that has it worse than you ashley." Now i know its really true. As i was reading the story of davids life, i could feel his pain and the way he didnt know if he would live to see tomorrow. Well what im trying to say is that i thought this book was the most great, wonderful, struggeling, sad book that i have ever read!
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Summary: A great sequel to "A child called IT"
Review: In "A child called It", Dave Pelzer takes the reader through the terrifying and eerie world of his early years; delving into a subject many of us would rather deny than face up to: child abuse. Luckily, for Dave, he was one of the lucky ones. He lived to tell his tale. In "The Lost boy: a foster child's search for the love of a family", Dave takes us on another heart-wrenching journey- this time through the bowels of the foster system. He explores at length the sense of loss and isolation felt by foster children, in the same candid, vivid manner which made his first book so appealing. A must-read!
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Summary: The Rock Says
Review: The Rock Says by Dwayne Jonhson and John Layden. Dwayne was born in Hawaii and moved all over the United States. He has been to Miami,Texas, and Boston. He was born into a wrestling family, he tends to keep hanging on to the family tradition. After college he had his father Rocky Jonhson start teaching him with a little help with Pat Patterson. .One of his most famous quotes is,"If you smellll what the rock is cooking!" He and his wife Dany just go with the flow as they travel place to place in the WWF. As the PEOPLE say he is "The People's Champion."
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Summary: Good book
Review: This book was really great. I loved it. Of course, if someone else plans to read it they should read the first book, "A Child Called It" These two book are really great. I loved them. "The Lost Boy" was very interesting. I feel really sorry for David Pelzer. I admire him for his strength for staying in that house. If you have trouble at home, I think you should read this book. It may help you get through all the hard times.
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Summary: The Human Spirit Continually Amazes
Review: After finishing Dave Pelzer's "A Child Called It," I immediately ordered the sequel, "The Lost Boy." I was not disappointed. Mr. Pelzer writes from his then-viewpoint as a child, which helps intensify the reader's feelings of confusion, pain, and desparation that the author experienced first as a horribly abused child, and now here as a foster child. Mr. Pelzer pulls no punches, describing in great detail his rebellious behavior, juvenile criminal history, and his motivations for such behavior, as well as his time in a number of foster homes and juvenile hall. I found this book to be very inspirational in the way that, as a child and teenager, Mr. Pelzer somehow scrapes together the strength and inner reserve to endure and eventually persevere in the face of such terrific odds. The human spirit continually amazes.
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Summary: Good Lord! Choke!
Review: I sympathize with Pelzer for enduring such horrific childhood abuse. However, enduring child abuse doesn't automatically make one a thoughtful or even a competent writer. The Lost Boy too often seems like a baggy E.C. Comics knockoff, with the young Pelzer fleeing in terror from his one-dimensional, monstrous mother. Nobody must have proofread this book; in its dopiest scene, set in the 1970s, the young Dave anachronistically pumps his fist in triumph and says "Yes!"
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Summary: The Lost Boy
Review: After reading A Child Called IT, I could not help but read the lost boy. And now after reading the lost boy I can't wait to read A man called Dave. The lost boy was about a boy who went through the worst childhood anyone could ever image, or even wish upon anyone else to go through. This book only covers from ages 12-18, which is a lot more pleasant that what he went through the rest of the years. After his school realized what had been happening to David, they called the police and social services and was taken away from his mother. When his mother discovered that David had revealed the family secret she was ferious. But she couldn't do anything to him, they went to court and he was warded to the state until the age of 18, so his mother couldn't get to him. Over the next five years David was stiched from foster home to foster home. A few of the places he became comfortable in but that for one reason or another was taken away. Over the years his mother had said that he was a bad child and that no one could love him. She had said it so much that he belived it. At first he would would have nightmares about her coming to take him back to "the house." His nother had a certain power over him, that was hard for him to get away from. His mother got visitation rights, so she would go and visit him at the home where he was staying, but most of the time she wouldn't even talk to him. She would talk to his foster parent and tell them to be careful because he would try to be sneaky, and that he was such a bad child when he lived with her. When she visited him she never called him by his name, instead, she would call him "The Boy." Around age 17 or 18, David hadn't talked to his father in so long that he decides to go and find him. David ends up finding him, but when he does he is not the man he remembers. He is a drunk and he has no love left in his eyes. His eyes were dark and lost. Reading this book made me realize how strong David was. He had the worst childhood that anyone could ever imagine, and he is still alive and kept his faith through it all.
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Summary: Continued Hope and Strength.
Review: Once again David Pelzer hold the readers interest from the get go. Again the pages of the book are stained by the tears of the reader, not only for feeling the pain of David as he was growing up, but for his victories. Not only are the struggles coming from outside but also from within himself. He shows the will and the strength to survive.
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Summary: heartclenching and emotional
Review: To everyone out there that is curious about this book I highly recomend it. The Lost Boy had an amazing impact on me and my family members who I got to read it also. I could not put the book down. I would walk down the hallways at school and read at the same time not able to stop reading. I really wanted to jump into the book and save Mr. Pelzer, and help him to not be so frightened. I hope that everyone that reads my review will go out and take the time to read Mr. Pelzers inspirational book about his strugle to stay alive and escape "The Mother". Thank you.
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