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Summary: A Child Called It
Review: I belive this is the best book I have read in the whole sixteen years that I have lived.I think that what Dave's mother did to him that she should be put in prison and never be able
to get out.I don't see how anyone could be that low to do some thing like that in parts of the book I just wanted to beat the hell out of his mother. I don't see how she could do that to anybody. (expecially her own child)!! I loved the book and recommend everyone to read it.
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Summary: The Bad Life
Review: In the book the lost boy Dave Pelzer was abused as a younger kid. He was burned, beaten, starved and mistreated. Dave was stabbed in the chest by his mom when he was only 6 years old and after that he was put into foster care until he was 18. For the six years he was in foster care he was arrested a few times. For the first year he was having a problem with getting overly attached with his foster parents. He was with good ones but also with bad ones. This whole opportunity was given to him by his school nurse and his parole officer. Dave never saw his real family again except his dad whom he saw when he was about 15, a year after he began foster care and he lit the school on fire because of his parents were divorced and his father became a fire fighter. I would recommend but first read A Child Called It!
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Summary: Fighting The Struggle
Review: The novel The Lost Boy was a great demonstration of how innocent children are easily abused. The abuse toward children in their growing years may turn to mental illnesses. This may also cause psychological problems. This book is also great to help those who day by day are abused. It teaches them how to fight those struggles they go through every day. My opinion
I recommend this book because it has a great structure in the literature. It helps open the mind of many individuals who throughout their childhood were abused. I say this because it portraits how child abuse may be common in a daily basis. Throughout the novel Dave the author and the abused child seek for help for the harm ness he was living. Soon after his struggle he accomplished his goal of getting help and no longer being abused.
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Summary: A Young Boy's Search for a Family
Review: The Lost Boy was written by Dave Pelzer. It is the sequel to A Child Called "It." This novel demonstrates a young boy living his life being abused and desperetly looking for a place he can call "home." Throughout the novel, Dave tries to find hope and love from somone that wants to love and take good care of him. Both of his parents are drunks, his mother abuses him, and his two brothers live happily with his parents. The novel brings you inside Dave's live and sooner or later you'll feel the pain he goes through.
First off, I would like to say that many people recommend this novel along with A Child Called "It" to read and thats why I read it. One of the main reasons why I liked this novel was because it was a true story. Whenever I look for a novel to read, I usually read one that is a true story because I like to see how real people deal with real problems in life. I liked how the novel let me see in the eyes of a real person that gets badly abused. Abuse has always been a big problem in the world, but I never really knew exactly how the child was beaten and how they felt about it, and this book let me see that. The novel shows how he feels about being a foster child, and trying to find acceptance in the world. From reading this novel, it opened a new side of me whereas I'm interested in helping these kinds of children from child abuse.
This novel was incredible to read. It was filled with details, and it made you feel like you were right there with him. It shows how he has to deal with the other children teasing him, and him doing anything he can whether it was good or bad just to make him liked. When reading The Lost Boy, I could visualize everything. It seemed as though it was a movie all played out in my head. I think that being able to see visuals of what the characters were doing is a way of showing it was an excellent novel. Every time I would read this novel, I would never want to put it down. I couldn't just stop in the middle of a chapter, I had to finish it. Usually I don't have a problem with stopping after about five pages, and that's what made me like it so much. When you find a book like that you know its good.
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Summary: Story Of Triumph
Review: The Lost Boy, the sequal to A Child Called
It, is a story about a boy and his journey to
find a family. His journey includes trying to
be accepted and to be loved. David is able to go through life and its
hardships and be positive about it even while
he was being moved from foster care to foster
care.There is not a point in the story where
you sense bitterness in Dave's story. He is
also able to accomplish many things through
out his life. He
learns very young about growing up and being
independent. I found the book to be very inspirational and
heartwarming. It also leaves you with the
knowledge of different things that happen
within our community that people are not
always aware of. The book grabbed my
attention from the beginning and I strongly
recomend it
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Summary: The Lost Boy
Review: The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer is about a boy named David going from foster home to foster home. He was a little boy doing anything to be friends with older kids at the foster home or at school. Some kids didn't like him because of the way he dressed or because he didn't have a real family. This book was okay because it shows how every foster parent/character treated David. Some of them treated him with respect and some of them were mean to him. The foster parents/characters that really treated him with respect was Alice and Harold because they let him have freedom. Like they let him do and have whatever he wanted. Alice and Harold welcome David in their home and made him feel comfortable and gave their love to him. Like when they told David that they were moving, David thought that he had to find another foster home, but Alice and Harold told him that he coming with them. I like the book because there were some very interesting topics. David was young and lost. For example, He saw his mom, but she kept blowing him off. She also called foster care and said that he was "terrorizing the streets." She left this negative vibe between her and her son. He was only bad because he wanted to fit in. This invent kept me interested because throughout the book it stay on the topic.
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Summary: David Pelzer is a courageous and dedicated Author
Review: I cried throughout the book (...) "Lost Boy" (...) To come from one abusive situation only to find himself in another is astounding. How do we as a society allow this to happen to our children, our future heirs to this world? It just leaves me with my jaw dropped. Lost Boy weeves the story for the reader in such a way that there is no way you can not understand what is happening, and certainly no way for you to put the book down and not feel all of the emotions that just runs like water through this story. A truth telling courageous story. [It] will make you tear up, both will make you angry...and yet you are unable to put either one down. "Lost Boy" is exactly like that. I can not speak enough about the courage that Mr. Pelzer displays in opening up his mind and spilling out his life on paper, and the courage it has to take for authors such as David Pelzer or Katlyn Stewart to put thier lives out there for all to read. I know with reading these books I can see that they knew they had to write these books to help others in the same situation. What they didn't realize is how much they help people like me to understand them, feel for them and find a drive and determination within myself to do battle against this happening to other children.
I am so in awe of David Pelzer...of any author that finds the courage to share thier stories with us.
Do yourselves a favor, read these books. Read the whole series of books by Mr. Pelzer...Though they are emotional..you will come away with a sense of self like you have never felt before.
Kelly Hawthorne
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Summary: A story that had me Tears
Review: The novel The Lost Boy:A Foster Child's Search for a Family, was so touching and dramatic. In tha story David was treated so unfiarly by his mother, that it made me cry. This novel will leave anyone who's ever felt the need for a family cry. David talks about all he went through searching for that perfect family, but most of all that perfect mother. I guarentee that while reading this novel you will need a box of kleenex. I was surprised because I don't usually cry over books, but this story took the cake. David Pelzer is a master novelist for this book.
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Summary: A Boy That Was Abused By His Mother
Review: In this book it talks about a child called it. His mother abused him in such a way that he didn't even want to be there no more. His dad kept on saying to his wife is that you treat my son like crap. You make him get scraps out the garbage can and eat it when his sister and brothers are eating at the kitchen table. The child called it mom told him if you don't like it here then get out of my house and don't pack anything just get out. The child called it came back and realized that he can't go back
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Summary: Courageous and inspiring!
Review: After dealing with physical abuse at he hands of his own mother, the author continues his story about being taken out of his home and into foster homes throughout his adolescence. This is a must-read for everyone! It will teach us to care for our teens more and to listen to them more. It will help us to watch out for our kids and to show them our lvoe, more and more each day. It is heartbreaking to read how the author continued to desire the love of his mother who continually treated him with no dignity. You MUST read this book. And then share it with a friend. I read it when a friend of mine lent it to me. I'm glad he did. It is best to read the first book: A CHILD CALLED IT. This is the 2nd book. I stil need to read the 3rd: A MAN NAMED DAVE. I can't wait.
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