Love reading his words | Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

Another excellent book. | Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family | David J. Pelzer

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	• Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family David J. Pelzer Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2002 average customer review:based on 476 reviews
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highly recommended

the lost boy

This is child abuse extreme. This will make you cry, rip out your heart and make you want to rip out the mother and father of this child's hearts. It will make you,hopefully, more aware of child abuse and make you want to do something to stop it and prevent this from happening to another child. It will make you hug your child closer to you and thank God you are not like these people.

Love reading his words

I have been reading and rereading his written words since the 7th grade. Very descriptive and extremly heartfelt.

Another excellent book.

Although not quite as intense as the first book, A Child Called It, still an excellent book. Especially if you've read the first in the series.

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So Can You

This book was a fascinating. I chose this book to read because as a kid I was always interested in starting a home for abused kids when I grew up. This book was a good read because it was all about how David was abused from, age eight until he was twelve, by his abusive mother, but then he got away. The foster home that he went to is like where I want to work: I want to start a foster home.

What helped the author create this book was it was all his own life experiences being abused by his mother, then getting away, then being bounced around from foster home to foster home.

In this book there was a lot of stereotyping and very little over-generalization. For example, people in the book stereotyped foster children as filthy little brats whose parents gave them up because they were bad. An example of over-generalization was when David's mother was trying to get him sent to the crazy house because she said that he was a crazy kid. She said that he liked to start fires, but the only fire that he started was when he was five, and it was on accident.

On Amazon.com there is a review that said that this book was "a difficult book to read." I do not agree with that because the words are supposedly big, but they are not that big. Another review said, "I must go read the other two books in the trilogy. I could not put this book down. I would recommend this book to everyone." I definitely agree with this statement because I had a hard time putting the book down; it just kept drawing me in, and its funny because I have already started the last book "A Man Named Dave."

I recommend this book to everyone because it is an easy read and it is a great book that will inspire a lot of people to keep going in their lives and not give up, because if David can do it, so can you.

Amanda Wamsley, TJHS student

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The author continues the story of his own child abuse, and his experiences being a foster child moving in and out of five different foster homes.