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

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Summary: A good book to read about people who get hurt.
Review: This book is good if you like to hear about people getting abused. This book is about a little boy whose mother is abusing him and then he gets put into foster care. He gets moved around and around because people did not know he was coming. So they had to keep moving him and moving him around.He just wants to be put in a famliy that loves him and will care for him. I give this book about 4 stars because it's a good book that shows how not all people have a good life, just like everyone thinks.This good because it makes you think hard about people who did get hurt.

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Summary: The Lost Boy
Review: This book is about this kid named Dave that never had a home.Dave has been rescued from his alcoholic mother. He has no place to call home. Dave got saved by a police man and Dave cried with all his heart as He said his final good-byes to his teacher. The police man and Dave went to the foster home, so Dave could live a good life and find some new parents. Dave went to court so he could not stay with is mother, and the court say that he will live in the foster home. I gave 5 stars because I like this book, It sad what Dave has hapen in his life. The only thing that Dave wants is a real family that would love him and give him food, but he thinks that he would not find this family that would love him.

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Summary: Compelling.
Review: This is the second of three books chronicling the life of David Pelzer. As one of the worst cases of child abuse in California's history, David Pelzer's life improved dramatically after his rescue. However, his life would never be charmed, or easy in any way. This book details his life during the adolescent and teenage years, as he lived in various foster home settings. If you read A Child Called "It", you will find yourself wanting to know how David's life progressed after his rescue. You can't read the first book without caring about this boy and wanting him to have a good life filled with love. If you've read Pelzer's first book, you owe it to yourself to find out how this boy's life transpires and slowly improves.

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Summary: The Struggles Of Being A Foster Child
Review: This book describes a young boy with an abusive mom. He must fight for himself.It may leave you confused, angry, grateful, etc. I suggest reading this book, it's the sequel to "A Child Called It." From age twelve to eighteen Dave lived as a foster child. How he survived from his mother was a miracle. Dave uses his determination as an inspiration to all readers. He writes to help other children with problems he too has experienced. Dave has gotten really far in his life so far because the stories he writes have touched so many. I liked this book, but not as much as the first original book (A Child Called It). This book was good and the one before it, left me anxious so I had to read this one too. I like how things get better with the main character, the narrator of the story. When I picked this book up I could never put it down. This was a good book, probably one of the best I've read yet. I enjoy reading Dave Pelzer, I think he's a good author and I like his writing style.

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Summary: My review of 'The Lost Boy'
Review: 'The Lost Boy' is an inspirational story about one boys struggle to find a family. After being abused throughout most of his childhood, David Pelzer, is finally rescued from the place he once called 'home' and is forced to go through the Foster Care system. After reading the first two books in this trilogy of Dave Pelzer's life, i found both of them to be equally captivating and heart warming. I would reccomend this book to anyone who is mature enough to handle it and can understand the intensity of what Dave had to go through during his adolescent years.

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Summary: Pelzer Survived
Review: The Lost Boy is the inspirational story of the author Dave Pelzer, an abused child who survived. At age six, David was abused by his sick mother, who made her son clean the bathroom with ammonia and bleach, while the door closed. David's mother also turned the stove on and burned Dave's arm on purpose. His day finally came when his teachers saved him from his abusive mother. Dave was put into a foster home after his mother was proven guilty of beating him. Most of the details from this book are about Dave from the age twelve to eighteen. A first prequel to this book called A Child Called "It" covers age's six to twelve.
The content of the book is organized chronologically, beginning when his mother starts to beat him. The wording in this book is about a high school freshman reading level. Dave Pelzer uses strong words to describe abusive moments in his life. You can imagine in your mind what he went through.
Otherwise, this book was a journey to me. All the ups and downs Dave went through in his childhood. The book rates five stars, as it is extremely interesting to read. The writing was well written and I was easily able to picture the scenes in my mind. Anyone who loves children and wants to help them out would like this book. You will find out much more then you intended to and see how the child abuse law was back in the early 1970's.

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Summary: this is a great book
Review: The book The Lost Boy is a sequal to A Child Called it. It tells the adventures a child named Dave goes through. As a child he was brutally abused by his alcoholic mother. It also tells about his trial at court against his mother and all the foster homes he has to live in. After the trial he goes to his new foster home. This story is a true story. The book's main character is also the author. I reccomend the book The Lost Boy because I thought it was very interesting to see what was going to happen next.

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Summary: Wonderful Inspiration
Review: In my 16 years of life on this earth reading was not very fun for me. when I found Dave Pelzers book "The Lost Boy" I was addicted to it right away. I could not put it down and found myself reading every spare second I had. I love "The Lost Boy" by Dave Pelzer because it is about a wonderful little boy in search of a family that he never had. The book tells the life lived by a little boy going through foster care homes and trying to find somewhere to fit in. He has his ups and his downs but his foster care worker is always right there with him through it all. I feel so close to this book because I am also a foster child. I have a new foster mother and a new life. Reading this book gave me the courage to go that extra mile and work extra hard. It's not every day that you have a 16 year old girl going to court trying to keep her and her sisters together. I am lucky to have my sisters with me today. Dave had to do it all by himself and I belive everyone should read this book to see how hard it is to be acceptd in life and cherish what you have.

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Summary: "A Great Book"
Review: I am reading my favorite book called A Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer. It is about this young boy who searches for love of a family. His mom was abusive toward him. He had to leave his mom and his brothers, but now he has been moving place to place trying to find a family that will love him and will want to keep him. The reason why I love this book is because the author of the book is the little boy in the book. It's an inspiring book to young adults and how to be thankful for the parents they have. Another reason why I could read it over and over is because it has strong parts in the book that make me wonder if I was in his position, would I do what he did or just run away, but I probably wouldn't. The reason why I think the others will love this book is because I had a lot of fun reading it, and because it is true facts and true thoughts that will touch you the way you would not even want to be touched. It will probably help you get through different problems in your life. It will let you see life through his eyes, and what he went through as a kid, It is an inspiring sequel to A child called "It."

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Summary: A Child Called It
Review: A child called it was a book that I could not put down and I could not forget. I picked up a Child Called It and thought that this can't be that bad many other people I had known had been reading it. I started it in class one day and could not put it down till I finished it the same day. A Child Called it was a book that made you wonder how somebody could be so mean to their own child and would want to do these kind of things. When you read it you feel bad for Dave because, he don't understand what is goin on and why it is happening to him. You have to have a open mind and a stomach that can handle things because, there are parts that get a little gross. The worest thing was that she has more than one child and they all are boys and out of all of them she just keeps picking on Dave and he never does anything to deserve it. I loved this and I would read it again.