The amazing inspiring true story of Dave Pelzer

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	• The Lost Boy: Foster Child's Search For the Love of a Family (Sequel to A Child Called It) David J. Pelzer Omaha Press Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1994 - 190 pages average customer review:based on 448 reviews
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The Lost Boy

"Did I tell her to beat me... to... to not feed me for days... or... or have me live in the garage like... like... an animal?"-as said by Dave Pelzer in The Lost Boy.
The book I have read is The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer. It is the sequel to A Child Called `It'.
The Lost Boy is about how a young man fights for his survival from his overly drunk mother. Dave had three brothers and all of them treated him like his mother did. In this book, Dave soon became not worthy enough to have a name so Mother started calling him `It'. Soon after that, his home became known as `The House' and mommy soon became known as `The Mother'.
When I first read A Child Called `It', I knew I had to read the next book, so I did. I never really realized how horrible child abuse could be until I read these books. These books are so inspiring and I could never imagine someone beating up their own flesh and blood. These books have really made a difference on what I think the future may be like if child abuse keeps happening.

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The Story of a Foster Child

The Story of a Foster Child

Imagine being starved for days while your brothers enjoyed a hot plate of chicken and spaghetti. How would you feel? Well I'll tell you how Dave Pelzer felt about this.
The Lost Boy is a biography written by Dave Pelzer. In The Lost Boy the protagonist named Dave was abused and was almost killed by his alcoholic mother. During Dave's childhood he had not experienced any love from his mother. After all those years of hard feelings, Dave finally decides to run away. Now Dave is in search for the love of a family.
The Lost Boy is a novel that will teach you how wonderful family really is. Also, how you should appreciate what you have because Dave Pelzer didn't have a good life and many of us do.
Dave Pelzer is an author who speaks his mind. He has also written many books about his life. One of my favorite books is A Child called "it". He also wrote a book about teens. He is also one of my favorite authors next to Walter Dean Myers. Dave Pelzer was also the number one New Times Best Seller.
People who were abused or people who need to know how to get help if they were in Dave's situation should definitely read this book to know that they are not alone. I would also recommend this book to a person who is curious of how abuse can lead from one thing to another.
Dave Pelzer explains much of his childhood and his foster parents. It seems that while Dave was writing that he we upset because of the style of words Dave was using. The setting mostly took place in Dave's foster parent's house where there he learned the true meaning of family.
Over all what I think Dave was trying to say is that just because you don't have love from your own family doesn't mean no body else does.
By Cynthia Bautista

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The amazing inspiring true story of Dave Pelzer

Dave Pelzer is one of my favorite authors and has written the a book before this called, "A Child Called It." In this book (The Lost Boy) he has been dealing with trying to find a family to love him and try to get someone to actually care for him. After he was rescued, He has been havingtrouble staying with a family and keeps moving from home to home in Daly City, California.

Dave Pelzer has told many stories of himself in these books that he has shared. Like being beaten, put in a room that was like a gas chamber, stabbed once before, being yelled at and more. His storys in this book had inspired me to try my best no matter what happens and to keep on going with my head high. He also made me think if I was in his situation what I would do. It's so hard to understand how anyone can let him just go from home to home and not love such an innocent child. With everything he has been through, it taught me how to keep going no matter what anyone says or if anything bad happens.

Since this book has given me such imagination, I only read it in less then a week. It was that good. I don't think there is one thing in this book that I dislike. After I read this book I went out and bought the book following this which is, "A Man Named Dave." I'm still unable to get the thought out of my head on how much he had to go through and how he was just treated like he was an animal.

This book is very powerful. After you read this book your life will forever be changed in someway or another. Like Mr. Pelzer I've lived such a bad childhood that I couldn't even cope with it that after reading this Im able to just move on and ignore everything that has happened. Being able to read about a little kid that's not being loved, cared for and just not able to interact with his family is such an inspiration way of learning about yourself. This book was such a good book and If you want to be inspired then just get this book and read it.

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Insightful, but not Helpful

I originally thought this was going to be a self-help book for former children of child abuse. Instead, it reads like a novel. I guess you have to read the final book (My name is David) to get the full benefits of how the boy saught help AFTER he moved out of the house.

Otherwise, it is a great book to relate to if you've been tortured yourself. I felt I was almost David myself in some parts. It's not for the light-stomached at all. Things happen that are rather disgusting, degrading, and beyond just normal physical/verbal/sexual violence. This is sad to say, but it's the one book that some people can say "Well...at least THAT didnt happen to me." Probably one of the worst accounts, but inspiring stories of child abuse I've read up on. If you're in for an emotional shocking 2-hour read, this is definetly the book for you.

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Touching Story

This book left me with many unanswered questions about David and his life. I have never read "A Child Called It," but I imagine that a lot of my questions would be answered if I had read the first book first.

This book gave me a lot of incite into the life of a foster child. In school I remember there being a few foster children who came and went, but they never stayed for long. I always assumed that foster homes were just a temporary home for children that would eventually be adopted. I had no idea that a child could go his or her whole life being passed around from foster home to foster home. I don't know if this is still the way of foster care today, but I truly hope that it is not. I imagine that having no family or no place to call home could have just as serious psychological effects as the living situations that these children are being taken away from.

This book was almost impossible to put down. I had it finished in nearly two days. It is a very touching story and I would definitely recommend this book to any one.

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