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Summary: You'll never be the same...
Review: The book is written from an adolescents point of view. It's one of those books you read and cry over, but you can't put it down. David Pelzer stays in your thought long after the final pages. Whether you are a fan or just picking up his second book, you will soon wish you had always known him...A must read for everybody.
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Summary: Provides insight into the needs of rescued victims of abuse
Review: This book and the previous A CHILD CALLED IT provide an engrossing view of child abuse and the needs of those rescued from its grip. It is most helpful precisely because it comes from the point of view of the child as he is living it rather than from well-meaning experts who look from the outside in. As the guardian of a formerly abused youngster, I was particularly interested in the emotional stages that David went through after his rescue. His skill in expressing his own frustratation with himself and his reactions to those who wanted to help him is extraordinary. His story has helped me to help my own "foster" son and to better understand what he has gone through even though he himself cannot yet explain much of his behavior. I hope he will someday feel comfortable about reading THE LOST BOY and perhaps telling his own story after the wounds of his experience have become less raw. I anxiously await the third book in the series, for I wonder how the final healing has taken place for Mr. Pelzer. What has happened to his parents; did he ever learn why his mother behaved as she did? How has he learned to parent his own child in the absence of a proper example in his childhood? I think the answers to these questions might show the way for many like him who are even now struggling not to survive, or to find a family, but to heal.
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Summary: A Shocking account of how the nation value's its children
Review: One of the most memorable lines in this horrific account is when David Pelzer remarks that his mother would have treated an animal better than she did her own son. It is all too symptomatic of how this nation values its children. Animals, these days, have become more important than our precious children. People care more to protest fur than protest the abuse of children. I am the grandchild of holocaust survivors, and as far as I am concerned, Pelzer went through his own concentration camp. He was gassed, starved, and beaten like a dog. I encourage all to read this book, as a reminder of the importance of treating children as the most important beings in society. Please make this a must read for yourself, so you make the prevention of child abuse a priority in your lives.
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Summary: The most unbelievable non-fiction
Review: I read Both of Dave Pelzers first two books for a project in an english class and I was shocked by the books content. At first, I found the story very hard to believe, but as I read my heart went out to Dave. How could a mother treat her own son that way? I strongly reccomend everyone reads all of Dave Pelzer's novels so that you too may have the chance to realize the extent to which our society carries out child abuse, the effects, and what we can do to help.
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Summary: More emotional than the first one
Review: I thought this book was a great book. It had more emotional contant than the first book. This book was surprising actually becaus of the different stages he went through. He went from being abused to being a thief. Then from a thief to a relaxed teenager. It all points out in the end that we all have our teenage years.
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Summary: A heartfelt true story of an abused child
Review: I have just finished the book A Child Called "IT" and it moved me so deeply that I could'nt put it down. It deals with the life and the reality of child abuse. I think it is one of the most moving books I have ever had the chance to read. I was so moved by the first book that I rushed out to get the second book The Lost Boy and so far once again I am completely moved. These are two books nobody should miss reading!
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Summary: I really beleive child abuse should be stopped.
Review: I read a Child Called It and it really moved me. I am 12 years old and I think that no kid should have to go through such pain. Dave, I really admire your courage and I hope that I can help you prevent more child abuse cases! I know that I am only twelve, but I really want to help.If you have any comments or want to elp, e-mail me
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Summary: This is a profoundly moving story
Review: Little boys are supposed to run like the wind, play with abandonment, and laugh often and hard.But, the little boy in this story, The Lost Boy, lives in fear, eats out of garbage cans, and endures torturous beatings at the hands of a woman, who is his mother. David cried tears of joy and freedom on the day he was removed from the clutches of his alcoholic mother. But, now he begins the difficult journey of freeing himself from the grips of his past and finding a new home where he can be nurtured and loved. David's journey takes him into the foster care system where he bounces from home to home in search of his dream to be a part of a caring family. This is a profoundly moving story which speaks volumes about one boy's resilience, courage, and perseverance in spite of odds which often seemed overwhelming. It is a telling account of a childhood no child should have to live. It left me angry and frustrated, yet joyous that David was not only able to survive, but to flourish and succeed, as well. The Lost Boy is a book which everyone should read at least once to gain a better understanding of both the effects of childhood abuse, and our system for finding new beginnings for lost children.
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Summary: This is a realy good book to read.
Review: I thought that this was a good book becaus it tell how growing up in foster care can be hard. I think that every one who gets the chance to read this book should becasuse this is a good book to read. It makes you stop and think what growing up as a foster child realy fells likes.
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Summary: MUST READ
Review: THE STORY OF DAVID PELZER'S HORRIBLE SO-CALLED CHILHOOD SHOULD BRING TO MIND THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL WORK IN THE U.S. AND AROUND THE WORLD. THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN NEED TO COME FIRST. WE NEED TO INVEST IN THIS OUR MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCE, THE CHILDREN. THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO INVEST IN CHILDCARE, SOCIAL WORK, HEALTHCARE FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER RELATED PROGRAMS. HOW A CHILD IN DAVE'S SITUATION COULD BE ALLOWED TO BE PUT THROUGH THIS TYPE OF HORROR SHOULD PUT EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTRY TO SHAME. THIS CAN NO LONGER BE TOLERATED, SOMETHING MUST BE DONE AND EVERYONE MUST CONTRIBUTE TO HELPING THE CHILDREN. IF ADULTS DON'T PROTECT THEM WHO WILL? DAVE, IF YOU READ THIS, GOD BLESS YOU.
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