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

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Summary: A Child Called IT
Review: I think that the book was great. I couldnt put it down. Dave Palzer is amazing.

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Summary: Will there ever be Justice for abuse?
Review: This book is a sequel to the book, "A Child Called It." Like the first book, this one is also a very emotional experience for the reader. I experienced feelings of anger, sadness, and frustration. The first chapter reveals how the first book ended with the boy being rescued from his abusive mother. The proceeding chapters go in depth of the child's life in foster care and institutions, always in search of a loving family to care for him. Whats frustrating about this particular book, and like the first, is that it never reveals any consequences the abusive mother recieved. In fact, in this sequel, she still tries to get to him and continues to manipulate the system. What's appalling is she is allowed to do this with little or no consequences. I feel this book should be read by everyone in order to make anyone who can make a difference in our society aware of this issue. It's my hope that in the last sequel, it reveals some of the consequences the abuser recieves to put closure to this issue. Thats why, I feel, the reader feels so frustrated and helpless. These are excellent books by Dave Pelzer. I highly recommend them.

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Summary: Amazing
Review: After reading A Child Called It, I of course, had to read Lost Boy. Though, I was very happy to see David got away from his mother, I was more compelled to learn that the school system got involved, finally! Being in foster care itself, can't be a easy task, i.e. living out of a paper sack with the only prized possessions he ever owned, but not knowing from moment to moment if you are going to be pulled out of that home. This book is one of those books that you just can't put down, you have to turn the page to see how David pulls through each situation. Don't pick up this book if you don't have a few hours to spend starting and finishing this book. It is a MUST read! I have purchased A Man Named Dave and have begun to read it. This series is compelling!

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Summary: A Great Educational Value!
Review: I work with students who are in foster care and who are outside of the school system for one reason or another. This book has proved invaluable as a literary study subject. Teenagers who hate to read have willingly read this book and answered questions and did vocabulary based on this novel. They have been enthusiastic about talking about the book and were quite excited at the thought of also reading the first book, "A Child Called It." It is an enthralling, fascinating, quick read that kept me absorbed from cover to cover.

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Summary: The Lost Boy
Review: The book that I have chosen to write a review on is "The Lost Boy," a true story by Dave Pelzer. The Lost Boy is the sequel to A Child Called "IT" and A Man Named Dave is the sequel to The Lost Boy. The main characters in this book was Dave Pelzer, Mr. and Mrs. Pelzer, and his two older brothers, Ron and Stan. Dave who goes by David, had a horrible life with very little memorable childhood memories. Davids father had walked out on David and the rest of his family when David was only about 9 years old because of marriage problems. Davids mother was very upset and blamed David for her seperation with her husband. Therefore, David was given many chores, little food,very little privilages, and on top of all of that he was disciplined variuos times a day. David has never had a place that he has actually called home. His only possesions are his old torn up clothes that he carries with him in a brown paper bag. In The Lost, young David has been rescued from his alcoholic mother by a young women named Mrs.Gold. Due to the fact that David does not live with his so-called family at this point of the stroy he has been placed into five different foster homes. Mrs. Gold was a young women that worked for The Child Protective Agency. David was required to talk to her about everything that was going on between David and his family, past and present. However, David was very uncomfortable talking to Mrs. Gold about his family problems. David knew that since his mother knew that he had told their secrect that she would find a way to get him back. And she did just that. She had arranged a date to go to court with her sons Ron and Stan and have a conference with Mrs. Gold and her son David. Does she get custody of David? Does she torcher David again? Will she ever treat him like her son and not as a stranger? Those questions will remain unanswered unless you read this excellent book, The Lost Boy. The Lost Boy is a sequel that will move and stand alone as a shinning inspritaion to everyone. Those who feel that all foster kids are trouble and unworthy of bring loved just because they are not apart of a real family should suffer pain.

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Summary: Get off the computer, run out the door, buy this book NOW :)
Review: The Lost Boy, the second in Dave Pelzer's trilogy, is just as compelling as the first. As we embark on Dave's journey from foster home to foster home we begin to become enchanted by this young man's strong will, love for adventure, and his life in general. The realistic dialogue sends you to the psychiatrist's office, to the junior high schools, and to the love of David and his foster parents. From the first chapter of A CHILD CALLED IT I was attached. The end of this book brought played my emotional strings and warrented the immediate start of the third book (A MAN NAMED DAVE) For anyone who has ever loved a child: this is the book for you. For anyone who has ever needed a little inspiration: search no further. Dave Pelzer will indeed give you more than your share of inspiration and really bring about some serious soul-searching.

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Summary: Breathless, I was reading parts of my own life
Review: Ive never read a book completely in my life,untill a naughbor was talking to my wife one day and she happend to be reading this book the lost boy,I overheard her saying ,Im looking at life so differantly, now I thinking ya right,I then heard her say ,but you have to read the first book first,(Achild called it) you will die. Im not a reader at all but, I kept thinking of what she said, looking at life defferantly,So i asked My naughbot for the book(A cild called it) And I opend it up and started to read.I almost dropped,I couldnt beleave it, was this guy dave liveing my life,exept for being poisend,it was my life,Only i wasnt saved,I am now 42,I have tree beautiful kids and a wonderfull wife ,and i still have a lot of isuse to deal with But i still scrape bye,but like dave im still pushing to be better,and i broke the chain of abuse also, I swore i would never ever treat my kids like i was treated ,I go to there socca games and baseball games ,basketball games ,danceing resitals I have them involved in everything I love my kids till know end, and they know it,I was overcome by your books david,we grew up in the same era Ive felt your pain ,and we made it ,thank you for your books ,and heroism,you are with out a dout my hero, GOD BLESS YOU DAVID PELZER AND YOUR WIFE AND SON

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Summary: Shocking. . .
Review: My mother handed me this book exactly two night ago, she instructed me to read the first pages of chapter 1, which were printed in italics. Once I started reading them, I literally could not stop. I did not put the book down until I had finished it later that evening. I then went on to read the rest of David's books which were excellent, yet horrible, very well written with great emotion.

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Summary: Amazing what this child had to go through
Review: This is and excellent book, I had even found myself crying at times. To even imagine what some children have been put through living with an unloving parent or parents. Also to be put in the situation of being a foster child, and having to deal with the feeling of being unloved is very unfair. This is a great story, and a true life story for that fact, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.

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Summary: Wow
Review: The first book was shocking, this was just amazing. I liked this book because it showed what it's like to be a foster child, the stuff he had to go through, and the people he met/stayed with.