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

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Summary: The Lost boy. by David Pelzer
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Book 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.

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Summary: Wonderful series of Books
Review: David Pelzer does it once again with this emotionally charged,difficult to comprehend book of how anyone on this earth could do what has happened to Mr. Pelzer. I also recommend Nightmares Echo and Bastard Out Of Carolina...all excellent books dealing with the subject matters at hand...

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Summary: My Review
Review: Mr. Pelzer a child writes a wonderful book series. The books had many ups and downs. He pulls you into the book and it feels like you were right next to him. I think it was important for David to write this book to let other kids know they aren't the only ones that have this problem. If you read this you'll want to read it all the way through and never put it down. After reading this book I went out and bought the other 4 books that tell the rest of his story. You will definitely walk away a changed person inside. It is almost impossible to stop crying. This was truly a life changing book. Leaves you thinking an wondering what will happen next. Never a dull moment with this book. Not only is it a sad story about a mother who beats her son, but it's also a story about the courage of a boy who survives his abusive, alcoholic mother. He shows that if you try hard enough, you can survive nearly anything. One of the most amazing things about this book was that it was a true story and that David survived through it all and would tell the whole world all about it. This book should be read by kids 10 years of age and older. This book is not intended for younger kids because of the way David's mother hurts him. I think it would give little kids nightmares. This book series has 5 books as of right now.

1st book in series : A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive

2nd book in series : The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

3rd book in series : A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness

4th book in series: Help Yourself: Finding Hope, Courage, and Happiness

5th book in series: The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story of Longing for Acceptance and Friendship

I was also a victim of child abuse, ALL kinds ( emotional, phyiscal, neglect, sexual,born addicted to drugs,shaken baby sydrome ...ETC) it was during my 1st year of life and when I was in the womb,i'm now 17. The other day I was thinking if I write about my childhood , I be as successful as Mr. Dave Pelzer.

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Summary: Must read
Review: This book is a great sequel to "A Child Called It". This book goes on to tell you in very great detail as to what this child had to endure in his teen years. It also tells us how he was saved and went on to make something of his life.

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Summary: A new way of looking at life
Review: I thought that the lost boy was a very, very good book. It's about a boy who has been living with his mother for at least nine years and for all those years he has been beaten. Finally he is saved and is put into many foster homes. He has to go to many foster homes before he finally finds one after many years of searching. During the book you read about loss, happiness, and other breathh taking moments. While reading, you really feel like you are part of the book. This book made me look at my life and realize how good i've got it. This book was so good and I plan to read more books written by Dave Pelzer.

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Summary: The Lost Boy
Review: The Lost Boy is a book written by Dave J Pelzer. This book was published in 1997 by Health Communications In. of Deerfield Beach, Florida. It is an Autobiography in which David Pelzer tells the story about how he was treated by his abusive mother. The Lost Boy is a sequel to A Child Called "It". A Child Called It told of David Pelzer's life as a child in an abusive home. The Lost Boy tells of David's escape and how he spent a few years of his life in a foster home looking for a family.
David Pelzer suffered many years of pain and hatred while living with his mother. David couldn't stand the pain anymore so he ran away. After he ran away David is taken to a foster home where he searched for a family, a family who would give him love. Love that his real family never gave him.
The book opens in the 1970's in Daly City, California. Dave is still living with his mother and father. He tells how his mom mistreated him and his father does nothing about it. His mother starves him and only gives him meager leftovers. He says " I'm alone hungry and I'm shivering in the dark." His mother made him sleep in a garage and sometimes made him fall asleep hungry and in the cold.
If I would have to rate this book from one to ten I would give this book a ten. This book was easy to understand and David Pelzer writes with so much love that it makes the readers love his books. This book is helpful for some kids that have been abused like that, it shows them to be strong and never give up. The Lost Boy was also helpful to me because I am able to think of my life and give thanks that I don't have parents like his.

David Pelzer's journey is a long and difficult one. He has to overcome years of abuse and find a family where he will find, love, security and a sense of self. The story of his life is inspiring. This is a book everyone will benefit from reading.

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Summary: WOW really good book!
Review: David Pelzer, The Lost Boy
The book The Lost Boy, by David Pelzer is an incredible story dealing with Dave's struggle to survive his abusive life while living with his mother who was an alcoholic and his father. Dave left his house at the young age of nine years old. He thought that he being abused was his fault, he thought that maybe he should go back to his home and tell everyone that it was all his fault. But with the help of others, they helped him realize that his mother is sick and she is the one who is causing all this pain for David. Then for the next nine years of David's life he went into and out of five different foster homes. Then once he had just started to get use to the foster home he was in they would just come to get him, and they would bring him straight to the next foster home. He would have one small bag to bring the little clothes and belongings he had to each house. He would move from one school to another depending upon where his next foster home was located. One of the houses that David moves into was less than a mile away from his mother's house, so he would run into his brothers after school. David's mother was a sick person who tried all she could to get David back. Once she finally realized it wasn't going to happen, she tried to get him into a mental institute. She would make up all these lies and stories. Then after moving from foster home to foster home and dealing with all his mother put him through eighteen years later he actually feels like somebody.
This book was really interesting and well written. It was the type of book that was easy to understand there weren't too many difficult words so it was easy to breeze right through. I thought that David was a brave kid for doing all he did to make his life better and not end up like his parents who were both messes. When David was younger he would work for money so he wouldn't have to rely on his foster parents all the time. I would definitely read this book again!

Lindsay .V

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Summary: Lost but found
Review: This book is the sequel to "A Child Called IT" this book is an incrediable book which actually inspired by husband and i to become foster parents. I have not read two more powerful books in my life. I read may biographies, (about 4 a month) and this book had a long lasting effect on my life. I read all three books in 3 days and found it hard to put them down. I highly recommend this book along with the one before and after it for the whole series effect.

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Summary: agrees with reviewer also
Review: Lost boy is an excellent book, and because of a reviewers recommendation I bought both this book and Nightmares Echo. There is no sensationalism in either book, just honesty,truth and hard to deal with lives of children. Children that live around us daily, right under our noses. i recommend everyone read these emotional books

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Summary: A very important book about the emotional process.......
Review: This book with make your gut ache & your eyes water endlessly. Dave's story of survival is a remarkable one, & books like this one are important in shedding a light on the cruelties inflicted on children DAILY in our country. So many of us would love to believe that these don't happen...or that they happen "somewhere else," but they happen everyday...EVERY day....next door, down the street. Did you know that children die EVERY day in our country at the hands of child abuse? It is an epidemic of monstrous proportions, & books like Peltzer's shed a light on that epidemic...that plague. People don't like talking about this subject, but it is so vastly important that we do start talking about it....cut the monster's feet out from under him. Thank you to Peltzer & authors like him that write the painful words to share their painful stories to cause people to talk about the painful epidemic that is America's. (Did you know that more children die EVERY year in the hands of child abuse than the total number of people who died in 9-11 & Pearl Harbor combined? America must wage a war against child predators!)...