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Summary: "The Lost Boy"
Review: The book "The Lost Boy" is a story about a child(Dave) who was beated severly by the hands of his own mother. Dave was taken out of his abusive home by the police and was immediately put into foster care. Dave moved from one foster home to another during the course of the first year away from his real mother. Most of the foster homes Dave lived in did not take care of him very well as the other foster children living in the homes were often allowed to make fun of him. During this time Dave did make a friend at school but his so called friend only used Dave or tell him to do things that were wrong and in the end Dave would get into trouble. Dave's friend had convinced Dave that doing these things would make him look cool, but his so called friend ratted him out and of course Dave got into trouble. Dave had many other adventures in his life at all of the foster homes.
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Summary: A Child That Searches For The Love Of A Family!
Review: I am a reader from Cedar Rapids, Iowa and coming from Iowa I think that this book really relates to some of the things that happen here in my own neighborhood. I loved this book because it's about a child that search's for the love of a family but never finds actual acceptance into a good family until he has gone through five different foster homes. I really recommend this book to any one who wants to read a very heart touching story. This book takes you into another world in the mind and heart and feeling of David Pelzer. He lost so much but today he has gained so much and the harsh past is now just the past to him.
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Summary: Quite good but we need more like this!
Review: This book will help enlighten the masses!Ken Grant, a Home Depotand would be IBM employee also wrote such a book about his experiences growing up as an abused,handicapped and neglected youngster in Massachusetts and experiences both good and bad and good people helped along the way.
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Summary: The best book in years!!!
Review: When starting The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer I was very stunned. Shocked that someone would treat this little boy like that, but it also startled me that the story is very true. At this same moment a little boy or girl is getting abused or beaten. The paragraph that dismayed me the most was on the very first page... "I'm alone. I'm hungry and I'm shivering in the dark. I sit on top of my hands at the bottom of the stairs in the garage. My head tilted backward. My hands became numb hours ago. My neck and shoulder muscles began to throb. But that's nothing new-I've learned to turn off the pain. I'm Mothers prisoner." At this time I began to cry, I wanted to reach out and help this boy, I became addicted not wanting to set the book down. Hoping to find a happy ending in the future for this little guy. When I continued on with The Lost Boy I didn't find an ending I have hoped for. I was almost convinced that this little boy would find the best of the best foster parents or get adopted. My prediction was wrong... Dave got into more and more trouble, but along the way met some new and great people that helped inspire Dave to be all that he could be. When finishing this book it was like ending a relationship. I couldn't start another book. I am looking forward to reading the next in the series and find out what happens to Dave!!!
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Summary: Good but not the first
Review: a Ken Grant of Massachusetts and New Hampshire is said to have wrote the first such book of this kind on the market but to have been harassed and blackballed in preventing its publication,"The Wanderer". Grant once lived at the New England Home in Boston. Grant wrote of the experiences and people Bad and Good that he encountered while an abandoned,abused,handicapped child in state child care for over 15 years, representing less than 1% of the children who end up in state-sponsored care. Grant later went on to receive a college degree and even to lecture grad students on issues facing such children. This book serves a valuable purpose in forwarding little known issues for general public review and consumption.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: This is one of the great books I have ever read! Hats off to Dave Pelzer for being able to write this book. I finished it in less than a day, because I could not put it down!
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Summary: This is the Most EXTREME Case of Child Abuse Survival!
Review: This book was very touching and unbelievable that a child could survive such horrific abuse by the mother! I couldn't get over how this mom could be so loving toward her other kids, and such a monster to David, make him eat vomit, drink ammonia. tie him up sometimes in the garage, beat him and burn him badly, and you name it. As I read this true story,I wondered what it was that made her tick and why a person could have such a hate on for one of her own children. And yet, through the story, David craved his mother's love so desparately, and he did love her. As he was sent to a foster home, he still sometimes tried to return to his mothers house. And she could never ever muster the least little bit of love for David. As I read, I could not figure out why the siblings, who knew what was happening, as well as the father, didn't report her much much sooner. This story will bring tears to your eyes. And you'll wonder as you read it, how Dave ever survived at all.
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Summary: Even more amazing then A Child Called IT! A Must Read!!
Review: I was really taken back by A Child Called IT, but when I read The Lost Boy, it totally floored me. I have to beg forgiveness for my ignorance on Foster Parenting of these special kids that are in the system. Dave has taken me into a whole new world and educated me. What makes me angry is why Dave's mom was so horrid to him. Mental problems? I think so. Dave was lucky to survive. God had a purpose for him in his life: to educate others of the child abuse problem. I am thankful, as I am sure Dave is, of wonderful foster parents he had. There job is not easy helping these kids but they do so with all of the love their hearts can muster. The Catanzes. Alice and Harold. Wonderful parents with love abound. I highly recommend the trilogy, A Child Called It, The Lost Boy and A Man Named Dave.
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Summary: A heart - touching book
Review: This book is a true story about a young boy Dave whose life was torn apart by his own mother. He lived in house, actually I wouldn't really consider it house more like jail. Dave life just seemed like it was getting worse and he was just trying to survive another day. The light finally shined on him when he found help. He was shocked and frighten by everything the memories of his past still haunted him. However, he chooses the right road and tried to leave everything behind. He tried to begin his new life with many different foster homes and parents. He even though he still went thorough many problems but it was the true love that he got from his foster parents that made him survive and made him become the person he is today.
I really recommend this book to any one who wants to read a very heat touching book. This book takes you into another world in the mind and heart and feeling of Dave. He lost so much but today he has gained so much and the harsh past is now just the past to him.
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Summary: Inspiring!
Review: The Lost Boy is an inspiring book. Continuing on from A Child called "It", I learned what Dave's life was like from ages 12-18. It also helps me understand what life was like when he was a child.
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