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Summary: The Sequel is Better Than the First Book
Review: The Lost Boy is one of the best books I have read. This book tells an adventurous story of Dave Pelzer's struggle to get away from his abusive mother, his trip through several foster homes, being labeled as a foster child, and finally becoming a successful writer and father. The adversity that Dave Pelzer has to over come is amazing and inspiring. Dave Pelzer shows how strong the human sprit is. This book will leave many people feeling better about there own lives and inspire them to do more. After reading this book, a person should feel like he or she can overcome anything.This book is very emotional. People that cry easy may want a box of tissues near by while reading. It is unbelievable what Dave Pelzer went through. The Lost Boy is a "roller coaster" ride through horrible times and positive highs. The lows will bring tears to the biggest man and the highs will leave a person feeling good about life. I recommend this book to be read as soon as possible. The Lost Boy is the inspiring sequel to A Child Called "It". Although the books are a lot a like, The Lost Boy will make a person feel good about life and inspire him or her to do more. This may be one of those rare occasions when a sequel is better then the original.
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Summary: Powerfully honest and disturbing
Review: After reading Dave Peltzer's "A Child Called It", I was drawn to read this sequel. His account of the emotional and physical abuse received at the hands of his mother and then his escape from his torture and his adaptation to foster home life is riveting. However, I wanted to know the answer to the following questions: 1) Why wasn't his mother arrested on criminal charges for the almost murderous abuse inflicted on this defenseless child (she should have been!), and 2) What had caused his mother to change from the loving parent she apparently was when Dave was very small to the evil person she became? Dave Pelzer, at the end of "The Lost Boy", hints that he returned with this question to his mother but never reveals the response he got from her. Perhaps this is what he intended since it really isn't any of our business. But it makes you wonder. Dave should be commended for making his life count for something despite the horrible past he has had to cope with. Most would not have done so well. I cannot understand the father's passivity in all of this as well. All in all, well written and quick reading!
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Summary: Anika's Review
Review: Right now I am doing a review on the book called The Lost Boy. It is the sequel to A Child Called It. I feel like it is a very good book. It is a very sad book. It lets you know how parents can be so cruel to their children. It really makes you think. Also the book is based on a true story. I find it hard to believe that he survived through all that. Thank God his teachers noticed something was wrong and called the police because if they didn't he probably woudn't have had a chance to right the book. I feel so sorry for hime. What makes it so bad was that she had two other kids and she didn't treat them like that. She coudn't even call him by his name she called him The Boy.
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Summary: Rare,insightful look thru the eyes of a child in foster care
Review: I have had the experience of reading both "A Child Called It", and "The Lost Boy". These two books take you down the journey of David Pelzer as he experiences his childhood and teen years while learning to overcome the most outrageous and cruel abuse from first his mother, then his father and siblings, school community and at times the bureaucratic system of foster care. However, thw true joy of the books is that they show us how one young boy through courage, strength,his daydreams, and the use of prayer overcame great odds to becomne a shining example of a success. Although it is true that both books leave you with many questions, the foremost one being, what happened to his mother? How was she made to atone for her atrocities? This is to be expected for several reasons. First, the words were those of a child, later an uncertain young adult searching for answers. Second, the entire issue of child abuse, foster care, and society's nonchalant, or often cruel reaction to F-children is a sad but real Truth, and filled with unanswered questions. This book is an inspirational testamonial to the courage that foster children show each and every day. The author's success in the Airforce, in life, and his own family are living examples that he and the foster system beat the odds, if only this one time. Although the books are graphic and at times depressing or evoke tears, the sheer joy felt when David succeeds uplifts your soul. If all they accomplish is to bring awareness to several hundred persons regarding the atrocities of child abuse and the need for involvement with the system, then Pelzer has surpassed any expectations one could have regarding his novels impact. Thank you David, and God Bless you.
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Summary: a child the made me cry
Review: In the story The Lost Boy is a true
story of a boy name Dave.He struggles
to find a loving family. Dave trys to
make friends with older kids at the foster
homes but they seem not to like him.
He soon stays at this foster home with a
women name Ms.Gold. Dave loves her do
much that he calles her an angel.
Soon his mother came to the foster home.
Dave had a bad feeling but was happy to
see her too. When Ms.Gold was on the phone
Dave's Mom became so mean like the first
story called The Child Called It. My Opinon on this book is the saddest
thing i read. I recommened to everyone to
read this book. To help other children that
was abuse by his mother or still is today
in the USA. Dave i feel soooo sorry that
you were treated like this and god bless
to the nurse who was suspecting the bruses
and cuts from what your mother had done to you.
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Summary: A terrific book that I would suggest to everyone
Review: I have read this book and the first book, A Child Called It, a thousand times. I love them. These books capture the reality and truth of an abused boy. In the first book his alcholoic mother almost kills him in several ways(making him eat his brothers poop, sitting him on a hot stove, not letting him eat unless it had ammonia on it) I love this book. I have bought both books and look forward to Dave Pelzer's upcoming book A Man Named Dave. I am only 12 years old . I look at this book as an actual play taking place in front of me. As I read I can see this going on. It makes you almost wish that you could go in and save this boy. The Lost Boy is based on David Pelzer from ages 12-18 when he is in foster care. He has at adverage4-18 foster homes a month. This book will bring you tears, love, determintation, and leave you with a new perspective on foster children. You will see it in Dave's eyes.
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Summary: writing through a childs eyes
Review: I was looking for quality reading material at a store one day and there it was. Being a mother-I usually pick up and check out material about children. I read the back of the book and knew I had to read it. I read it all in one day. I couldn't put it down, I cried, I felt peace, I felt disgusted, I felt sick, I felt very sad for the child called "it". The very next day I purchased "the lost boy" and read it all that weekend. I am impatiently waiting for David Peltzer's third book to come to the stores. I work with abused children, and David is one more example of a role model. I am frusterated with some of the readers comments on how it is a waist of money to buy all three books, it was a ploy to make more money, etc...Three seperate books makes perfect sense to me. Book #1 was ment to be read the way a young child would tell the story. Book #2 was to be read through the eyes of a teenager. I believe book #3 is going to be written through the eyes of a father. These are three totally different viewpoints and they needed to be expressed just as they were. GOD BLESS YOU DAVID.
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Summary: My review on The Lost Boy
Review: This book is a continuation of the book "A Child called it." It is a true story about a boy named David Pelzer who barley survived his mothers many tortures and close death experience, and trying to be accepted as a foster child and live a normal life. All he wanted was to be loved and accepted by the other kids.
This book is so sad but real. Child abuse happens all the time to children, right underneath our noses. There are so many foster children all over the US than don't have a real home, and that kids tease for being a little different. This book shows how surviving in school and the world as a foster child is very difficult and sometimes seems impossible.
I love this book and think that it is a real eye opener to the world that child abuse still happens and that we need to stop it. It also shows the people that think that child abuse is the children's fault that it is absolutely not. They have no control or say in what their parents want to do to them. It is so sad that the children could possibly be blamed for their parents beating them up because the parent(s) might have (a) drinking problem(s), married issues, etc.
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Summary: Riveting and disturbing
Review: Like so many other books dealing with child abuse ("Sybil," "Bark of the Dogwood," etc) this book is not for the faint-hearted. The thing that separates this read from others of the same genre is Dave Pelzer's telling of the story. It's wonderfully written and ultimately full of hope at the end. Also recommended: "Bark of the Dogwood"
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Summary: Brought Tears To My Eyes
Review: I finished this book so fast and I haven't finished a book this fast in a long time. I was devastating at the terrible accounts David Pelzer went through. The beatings, the burns and torture was too much, but the eating of feces was way too much. I was angry and embarrasses by his mother. I could never think of treating my twins or the child that I am carrying like this. This book makes me want to love my children even more and try to be a better parent. I feel that all parents should take the time out to read this book and then give it to their children; one of my twins are very interested in reading this book and I am going to allow him to read it. At the age of 9 he is a very avid reader, due to my encouraging and as I think about it, that is one of the things David's mother should have been encouraging her son to do instead of beating and stabbing him to death. I am very eager to read the other two parts of David's story, which I am going to do as soon as I get my hands on them. I encourage you and everyone you know to read this book. I also would like to know if there is a movie available too. Later.....
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