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

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Summary: Moving
Review: This is the sequel to A child Called it. I ran right out and bought it after finishing the first one. Picking up where "it" leaves off, here we follow the story of David from when he enters the foster care system though adolesence. His life doesn't get much easier as he moves from foster home to foster home, untrusting of affection and only having his feelings reinforced by what he learns in "the system". I didn't find this one as well written as "it", but that was quite a lot to live up to. Still, it is a moving story and one that you won't be able to put down.

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Summary: WOW! What a book.
Review: After reading a David's first book, A CHILD CALLED IT, I started reading A LOST CHILD and could not stop reading. It just grabs you and the emotions I felt were like being there myself. I am so happy that David was able to rise above all that happened to him. I see God's hand in his life and would love to talk with Mr. Pelzer. What a wonderful man he has to be, to see things for what they were and still have the strength to rise above it all. I will certainly read the next book! If you read this David, please drop me a line. Blessings, Sandy

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Summary: This is the most moving story I have ever read
Review: Children are supposed to run and play. Never really feeling pain. They are too never understand what really goes on in the real world. Dave Pezler had to endure something I wouldnt wish on my worst enemy. If you have read this book and agree go and find out what you can do to help. Being a child myself I can not imagine one of my little sisters having to go through that and not help them. Not all familys are like the one Dave was from. However, though we wish that this was a one time thing it is not. this is the life many youth are now facing. It is our job to protect the children for they are the future and without them you have nothing. So I urge you I beg you be the one to make a difference. You might think no one cares but they do just by smiling you can change someones day. By hugging a child you could save them for that moment from the nightmare they face each and ever day. Please lets try to make cases like Dave's as few as possible. As a child I know how it is when you want someone to reasure you. When someone asked for you help please give it dont be a strangeer and dont turn your back. Please help them. This book is currently being passed around all of Palo Verde High in Blythe to raise awareness to the youth there I wish you would do the same. Anyone know when the 3rd book is coming out?

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Summary: You'll never be the same...
Review: The book is written from an adolescents point of view. It's one of those books you read and cry over, but you can't put it down. David Pelzer stays in your thought long after the final pages. Whether you are a fan or just picking up his second book, you will soon wish you had always known him...A must read for everybody.

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Summary: Provides insight into the needs of rescued victims of abuse
Review: This book and the previous A CHILD CALLED IT provide an engrossing view of child abuse and the needs of those rescued from its grip. It is most helpful precisely because it comes from the point of view of the child as he is living it rather than from well-meaning experts who look from the outside in. As the guardian of a formerly abused youngster, I was particularly interested in the emotional stages that David went through after his rescue. His skill in expressing his own frustratation with himself and his reactions to those who wanted to help him is extraordinary. His story has helped me to help my own "foster" son and to better understand what he has gone through even though he himself cannot yet explain much of his behavior. I hope he will someday feel comfortable about reading THE LOST BOY and perhaps telling his own story after the wounds of his experience have become less raw. I anxiously await the third book in the series, for I wonder how the final healing has taken place for Mr. Pelzer. What has happened to his parents; did he ever learn why his mother behaved as she did? How has he learned to parent his own child in the absence of a proper example in his childhood? I think the answers to these questions might show the way for many like him who are even now struggling not to survive, or to find a family, but to heal.

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Summary: A Shocking account of how the nation value's its children
Review: One of the most memorable lines in this horrific account is when David Pelzer remarks that his mother would have treated an animal better than she did her own son. It is all too symptomatic of how this nation values its children. Animals, these days, have become more important than our precious children. People care more to protest fur than protest the abuse of children. I am the grandchild of holocaust survivors, and as far as I am concerned, Pelzer went through his own concentration camp. He was gassed, starved, and beaten like a dog. I encourage all to read this book, as a reminder of the importance of treating children as the most important beings in society. Please make this a must read for yourself, so you make the prevention of child abuse a priority in your lives.

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Summary: The most unbelievable non-fiction
Review: I read Both of Dave Pelzers first two books for a project in an english class and I was shocked by the books content. At first, I found the story very hard to believe, but as I read my heart went out to Dave. How could a mother treat her own son that way? I strongly reccomend everyone reads all of Dave Pelzer's novels so that you too may have the chance to realize the extent to which our society carries out child abuse, the effects, and what we can do to help.

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Summary: More emotional than the first one
Review: I thought this book was a great book. It had more emotional contant than the first book. This book was surprising actually becaus of the different stages he went through. He went from being abused to being a thief. Then from a thief to a relaxed teenager. It all points out in the end that we all have our teenage years.

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Summary: A heartfelt true story of an abused child
Review: I have just finished the book A Child Called "IT" and it moved me so deeply that I could'nt put it down. It deals with the life and the reality of child abuse. I think it is one of the most moving books I have ever had the chance to read. I was so moved by the first book that I rushed out to get the second book The Lost Boy and so far once again I am completely moved. These are two books nobody should miss reading!

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Summary: I really beleive child abuse should be stopped.
Review: I read a Child Called It and it really moved me. I am 12 years old and I think that no kid should have to go through such pain. Dave, I really admire your courage and I hope that I can help you prevent more child abuse cases! I know that I am only twelve, but I really want to help.If you have any comments or want to elp, e-mail me