The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

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Summary: A Young Boy's Search for a Family
Review: The Lost Boy was written by Dave Pelzer. It is the sequel to A Child Called "It." This novel demonstrates a young boy living his life being abused and desperetly looking for a place he can call "home." Throughout the novel, Dave tries to find hope and love from somone that wants to love and take good care of him. Both of his parents are drunks, his mother abuses him, and his two brothers live happily with his parents. The novel brings you inside Dave's live and sooner or later you'll feel the pain he goes through.
First off, I would like to say that many people recommend this novel along with A Child Called "It" to read and thats why I read it. One of the main reasons why I liked this novel was because it was a true story. Whenever I look for a novel to read, I usually read one that is a true story because I like to see how real people deal with real problems in life. I liked how the novel let me see in the eyes of a real person that gets badly abused. Abuse has always been a big problem in the world, but I never really knew exactly how the child was beaten and how they felt about it, and this book let me see that. The novel shows how he feels about being a foster child, and trying to find acceptance in the world. From reading this novel, it opened a new side of me whereas I'm interested in helping these kinds of children from child abuse.
This novel was incredible to read. It was filled with details, and it made you feel like you were right there with him. It shows how he has to deal with the other children teasing him, and him doing anything he can whether it was good or bad just to make him liked. When reading The Lost Boy, I could visualize everything. It seemed as though it was a movie all played out in my head. I think that being able to see visuals of what the characters were doing is a way of showing it was an excellent novel. Every time I would read this novel, I would never want to put it down. I couldn't just stop in the middle of a chapter, I had to finish it. Usually I don't have a problem with stopping after about five pages, and that's what made me like it so much. When you find a book like that you know its good.

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Summary: Story Of Triumph
Review: The Lost Boy, the sequal to A Child Called
It, is a story about a boy and his journey to
find a family. His journey includes trying to
be accepted and to be loved.

David is able to go through life and its
hardships and be positive about it even while
he was being moved from foster care to foster
care.There is not a point in the story where
you sense bitterness in Dave's story. He is
also able to accomplish many things through
out his life. He
learns very young about growing up and being
independent.

I found the book to be very inspirational and
heartwarming. It also leaves you with the
knowledge of different things that happen
within our community that people are not
always aware of. The book grabbed my
attention from the beginning and I strongly
recomend it

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Summary: The Lost Boy
Review: The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer is about a boy named David going from foster home to foster home. He was a little boy doing anything to be friends with older kids at the foster home or at school. Some kids didn't like him because of the way he dressed or because he didn't have a real family.

This book was okay because it shows how every foster parent/character treated David. Some of them treated him with respect and some of them were mean to him. The foster parents/characters that really treated him with respect was Alice and Harold because they let him have freedom. Like they let him do and have whatever he wanted. Alice and Harold welcome David in their home and made him feel comfortable and gave their love to him. Like when they told David that they were moving, David thought that he had to find another foster home, but Alice and Harold told him that he coming with them.

I like the book because there were some very interesting topics. David was young and lost. For example, He saw his mom, but she kept blowing him off. She also called foster care and said that he was "terrorizing the streets." She left this negative vibe between her and her son. He was only bad because he wanted to fit in. This invent kept me interested because throughout the book it stay on the topic.

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Summary: David Pelzer is a courageous and dedicated Author
Review: I cried throughout the book (...) "Lost Boy" (...) To come from one abusive situation only to find himself in another is astounding. How do we as a society allow this to happen to our children, our future heirs to this world? It just leaves me with my jaw dropped. Lost Boy weeves the story for the reader in such a way that there is no way you can not understand what is happening, and certainly no way for you to put the book down and not feel all of the emotions that just runs like water through this story. A truth telling courageous story. [It] will make you tear up, both will make you angry...and yet you are unable to put either one down. "Lost Boy" is exactly like that. I can not speak enough about the courage that Mr. Pelzer displays in opening up his mind and spilling out his life on paper, and the courage it has to take for authors such as David Pelzer or Katlyn Stewart to put thier lives out there for all to read. I know with reading these books I can see that they knew they had to write these books to help others in the same situation. What they didn't realize is how much they help people like me to understand them, feel for them and find a drive and determination within myself to do battle against this happening to other children.
I am so in awe of David Pelzer...of any author that finds the courage to share thier stories with us.
Do yourselves a favor, read these books. Read the whole series of books by Mr. Pelzer...Though they are emotional..you will come away with a sense of self like you have never felt before.
Kelly Hawthorne

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Summary: A story that had me Tears
Review: The novel The Lost Boy:A Foster Child's Search for a Family, was so touching and dramatic. In tha story David was treated so unfiarly by his mother, that it made me cry. This novel will leave anyone who's ever felt the need for a family cry. David talks about all he went through searching for that perfect family, but most of all that perfect mother. I guarentee that while reading this novel you will need a box of kleenex. I was surprised because I don't usually cry over books, but this story took the cake. David Pelzer is a master novelist for this book.

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Summary: A Boy That Was Abused By His Mother
Review: In this book it talks about a child called it. His mother abused him in such a way that he didn't even want to be there no more. His dad kept on saying to his wife is that you treat my son like crap. You make him get scraps out the garbage can and eat it when his sister and brothers are eating at the kitchen table. The child called it mom told him if you don't like it here then get out of my house and don't pack anything just get out. The child called it came back and realized that he can't go back

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Summary: Courageous and inspiring!
Review: After dealing with physical abuse at he hands of his own mother, the author continues his story about being taken out of his home and into foster homes throughout his adolescence.

This is a must-read for everyone! It will teach us to care for our teens more and to listen to them more. It will help us to watch out for our kids and to show them our lvoe, more and more each day.

It is heartbreaking to read how the author continued to desire the love of his mother who continually treated him with no dignity.

You MUST read this book. And then share it with a friend. I read it when a friend of mine lent it to me. I'm glad he did.

It is best to read the first book: A CHILD CALLED IT. This is the 2nd book. I stil need to read the 3rd: A MAN NAMED DAVE. I can't wait.

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Summary: an inspiring novel
Review: Being the sequel to the book "a child called it" you must first understand that in the first book David grew as a young boy being abused physically and mentally by his alcoholic mother while his father just stood by and watched it take place.
During this book, It showed David, grow from a 12-year-old boy to an 18-year-old man; through his teenage years. While on his quest for a family to love and be loved in return. He was moved form foster home to foster home and in between spend time at a womans house who little did he know he was going to spend more of his time there then anywhere. Before he was signed up for the air force he finally realized that she was the mother he had always needed and wanted to love and care for.
It was hard for me to relate to Davids life because he struggled so much and I have never had to struggle for a family's love or even a family or a home, I've always had one. But I can relate to moving because we did a lot while I was growing up and I always had a hard time adjusting, so moving in with different peolple has to be even harder.
I would deffinetly recommend this book to any other reader. Its very inspiring that a young boy could deal with such large events growing up.

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Summary: -The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search...
Review: The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
By Dave Pelzer.
This is a truly nice book that when you read it, no even to bed you want to go. It's a true story about Dave Pelzer, as a child he was ill-treated by his mother. He was forced to eat vomiting and drink ammonia. Every so often his mother tied him in the garage. I can't believe she could have done horrible things to him with no one saying nothing, not even his alcoholic father nor the other kids. Understanding this book you can tell what Dave as a kid had to do to survive his abusive and turn his life around. This book is going to make you wonder what you would do if you were a foster child, and in his shoes. It will also make you ask yourself if you could do what this young, mature boy did. I hope that if you like reading good books, that you read this one.

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Summary: The lost boy. By marie Daigle
Review: In The Lost Boy, you can very easily get sucked into the emotion of the book. This book is about a boy named David, searching for the love of a foster family. In his journey he moves from foster home to foster home. During his journey he gets in trouble, looses friends, and steals. All for someone to just love him. In the beginning of the book David is shy and doesn't have any friends. While at the end of the book David makes lots of lifelong friends and is not shy at all, at the end of the book David also finds a family to love him. Over the time of the book David
grows into a mature, honest man with a future. So long this journey he finds himself and makes some friends while doing it.

This book, I have to say was one of the best books I have ever read. The best part about this book was that is flowed, and worked really well. I think that almost anyone could read this book, one of the best things that worked in this book was that it was written in a 12-year-olds point of view, in having the book be written in a young persons point of view makes the story easier to get attached too. In reading this book you feel as though you are walking through his experiences with David. This book makes you wonder what you would do if you were in his shoes. In the book David goes through a lot of highs and a lot of lows. One of the things that really sucks you in to the story is when David is describing the way that his mother treats him. A high that David has is with his counselor Ms. Gold. His lows are when he gets in trouble just to make a friend.

I didn't really find a lot of things that didn't work in this book. I did have a problem when I would get REALLY into what was going on in a chapter and then the chapter would end and right when you thought that the next chapter would show what was going to happen to David, the next chapter would start something new all over again. So it would confuse me a lot. But other then that I really liked it. But the god thing about the way the book whet from chapter to chapter was that the book kept you in suspense.

I would recommended this book to anyone, ant any age. No matter what reading level that you are at you will like this book. This book is going to make you wonder what you would do if you were a foster child, and in his shoes. It will also make you ask yourself if you could do what this young, mature boy did. I hope that if you like reading good books, that you read this one.