I choose the book the lost boy because it was interesting and i wanted to see how the little boy goes on with his life with a drug/smoker mother. The genre is non fiction. The setting is at a foster home were dave stays forever cause his mom is in jail for abusing him, and not taking care of him like the way a mother should to her son or daughter. The main charecter is Dave and is is a little boy who got beaten up by his mom cause she was an alcoholic. The main conflict is that Dave is destroying andf misbehaving in the foster care.

The sequel to the tragic story of David Pelzer's childhood is a great sequel and you wouldn't think that he would go on the path that he does. David gets a second chance at living a normal life, but he doesn't make it easy for the people who come to love and care for him. Even though David is on a foster home with a another family his mom and dad play a big part in his life. His mom, after all that she did to David, tries to keep him and explain her horrible behavior to the cops. David has to straighten out his life and try to block out his past, but with the "new" David, this is going to be very hard for him and the ones who love him.

The theme of this book is to never give up and to keep on hoping. Even though David has changed, for what seems to be the better part of him, his past seems to creep up on him and is still affecting his new life. His mother wants to justify her horrible "games," but David doesn't realize that his actions are making it easier and easier for his mother to complete her mission.

I really enjoyed this book because it shows a true story of bravery and change. David changes for the better and wfor the worse. He learns about the true meaning of love and understands what it means to be loved too. I and probably other readers enjoy David finally finding a true home and not having to deal with his mother anymore. He has a new life and thoroughly enjoys it. Your heart is with David's and you feel how he does in his situation. This book is a great read and is a well-written sequel to the first book.

"The Lost Boy" is the sequel to "A Child Called It," and it continues where the first memoir left off. This, the second installment, takes the reader through the author's years in foster care after being taken away from his sadistic mother. It is refreshing to hear positive commentary on the foster care system, since most of what is reported is horrible. Dave's strength, perseverence, and unshakeable spirit are extremely inspiring, and it is heartbreaking to learn of his experiences. This is a moving and miraculous story of survival, but it is not quite as poignant as the first in the series.

I really found this book very interesting and was a very good insight into the foster care system and how it effects a child.

A truly amazing story of Dave Pelzer, the little boy who was viciously abused by his mother. Again, I can’t come close to understanding the viciousness of this woman and how she could treat her own son this way. It is truly amazing that Dave survived and became successful as he did. Dave is so right about Foster Care and the System. I met a woman at work who became a Foster Parent and I truly looked at her in a different light. It takes an extraordinary person to commit themselves to something like that. I really admired her. This book brought tears to my eyes. Truly inspirational.

I liked this book a lot. In the beginning, I thought that it was going to be extremely depressing, like the first book. But then it changed.
It amazes me how much an environment effects a child. His foster parents definitely changed his life. Although, I still don't know why he named his child after his father. They did meet up again, twice, but both experiences were not really great. I mean his father was nicer to him the second time but he basically told him that they shouldn't have a relationship at all, which kind of made me mad. He was probably thinking of Dave's best interest, but still he kind of owes it to him. I'm looking forward to reading the next book, and I expect for them to meet again, but I know it might not happen.

To say that David Pelzer came from "a dysfunctinal home" would be like saying the Jews were "treated badly" during the holacaust! How he literally survived is a puzzle, but how he survived to go one to live a "normal" life is a miracle. We all have baggage, but this man carries a whole set of luggage!

This story picks up where "A Child Called It" left off. At 12 years old, he finally escapes the hell he lived in as a child. Yet, as an adolescent, foster-home juggling can bring trials and troubles all their own. It would have been wonderful for Dave to have been placed with one family until he became 18, but that wasn't a break that was afforded him. Still this young man perserveres.

I am going to read his next book, "A Man Named Dave". Not to see how his story ends as we can't know that until it actually "end", but to "check up on" him...to see if he is doing okay so far. You grow to love the boy and care for his well-being...and you pray for his continued healing from his past of unthinkable existence.

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The lost boy is about a teenager who's had a rough life. He gets abused by his mother, eventually he gets out of the house and goes into foster care. He gets moved throughout lots of foster homes and schools. The purpose of this book is to show people what children who are in a similar situation go through. I think the author is trying to tell the children who go though this that they aren't alone. In my opinion the author achieved this purpose by showing so much emotion. There was also a lot of specific details. I liked how the book stirred up so much emotion because it really got me connected with the characters. I would highly recommend this book but because of some questionable language I would recommend to students 13+ who like sad books.

After reading ‘The child called it’, I was hoping to find out why his mother was so cruel to him but to my great disappointment I still didn’t know WHY, she did what she did, I seriously could not put the book down his second book was all about his foster care life and the love he had for them was heartbreaking, he was in and out not staying for long moving on living out of a carrier bag, soon as he made friends he had to get up and leave again, this second book is a real eye opener to foster care work and how children get passed around the system yet again other great book going to read his third book to see if I can find out why his mother did what she did.

"You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

From reading the book "The Lost Boy", I liked that I got to understand the life of a child who was born into an abusive family, whom which had a difficult childhood but got the opportunity to make a life changing decision and was able to surpass his trauma. I also enjoyed this book was because I was able to understand that not every child is lucky enough to live a childhood of their dreams and have the opportunity to actually be a child. Unfortunately for this little boy, David, he was not treated like how a normal 12 year old boy should be treated. He was mistreated in so many ways that some could not even imagine could be possible for someone at such a young age. Another reason I enjoyed this book was because it is based on the author's real life experiences and he is giving the reader a vivid description of the events that occurred which he had experienced for himself. Having the author be so descriptive in his writings gave me the opportunity to have an emotional connection and go through different emotions as I kept on reading. Additionally, I also enjoyed this book because I got to see David grow from age 12 to age 18 and compare him between how he was in the first chapters of the book to how he was in the last chapters. I was able to see how his experience effected him on different levels and how he responded to the major roles that caused his trauma. I also liked how the author portrayed himself as such a strong little boy with lots of courage who just wanted to reach the end of all his misery and finally live out the life he always dreamed of for years. Although this book is a continuation of the book "A Child Called It", it still gives the reader the chance to connect to it emotionally and understand how traumatic his life was just from getting an insight into a part of his life. I would recommend reading this book even without having read the first book prior to this one.

Published: 01/08/1997
Author: Dave Pelzer
Recommended for: fans of true life novels

This is the sequel to A Child Called It, in this book we read about the next stage in Dave Pelzer's life. It is a truly amazing and inspiring book, it is one that will move you to tears and make you feel for him. He grew up in an abuse household, with no-one to turn to, in the series of books about his life he reveals just how bad his life was when he was growing up and how he managed to make something of his life dispite what his childhood was like. This book truly makes you appreciate what your own life is like and makes you appreciate the people that you have around you. It is very well written and really draws the reader into the book and makes them feel many different emotions, it is truly a emotional rollercoaster but it is a great book for readers who enjoy true life novels.