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

ISBN: 1558745157

ISBN13: 9781558745155

The Lost Boy

(Book #2 in the Dave Pelzer Series)

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Book Overview

Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother, his real hurt is just begining -- he has no place to call home. This is Dave Pelzer's long-awaited sequel to A Child Called "It". In The Lost Boy, he answers questions and reveals new adventures through the compelling story of his life as an adolescent. Now considered an F-Child (Foster Child), Dave is moved in and out of five different homes. He suffers shame and experiences resentment from those who feel that all foster kids are trouble and unworthy of being loved just because they are not part of a "real" family. Tears, laughter, devastation and hope create the journey of this little lost boy who searches desperately for just one thing -- the love of a family. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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15 customer ratings | 5 reviews

Rated 5 stars
The lost boy

I love this book it is very heart felt and touching it really makes you realize your life isnt as bad as it could be, it could always be worse.

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Everyone Needs to Read This!

Everyone needs to read this book. Many people don't understand child abuse or how it happens, or even who it happens to. This book shows a child searching for answers to all of these questions in the heart breaking detail of his every day abusive home life. Some people think child abuse is hitting a child too much or not giving the child enough to eat at meals. The Lost Boy shows how much worse it actually is and how sick...

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powerful

The first time I read this book, I cried several times. This is a powerful, true story about one of the worst cases of child abuse. Many of the child-abuse laws in place today came about from Dave Pelzer's case. Just as remarkable as the horrendous abuse is the author's life as an adult. I was inspired by Dave's ability to forgive his parents and live a normal, healthy life. I have seen him on "Oprah" and he is confident,...

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Awesome book to read!

This book is one of the most thrilling and adventurous books I've ever read. Even though it is very sad and emotional, it an amazing book to read. It helped me to realize how bad some people have got it. The author is so fluent with his word choice and sentences. He is so descriptive that I could actually picture the events that he encountered. I could imagine him at school, and how he felt when he sat down in the basement...

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Heart-wrenching, amazing and uplifting true stroy.

The Lost Boy is an absolutely amazing true story of Dave Pelzer, which chronicles his years from 12 to 18 years of age as a foster child. This is book two of three and now I must go and read the other two books in the trilogy. I could not put this book down. I would recommend this book to everyone.This will book will make you cry, it will make you mad, and at the end, you will be cheering and crying tears of joy for...

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