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  • 47 of 47 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mum52

    5 Stars Superman had foster parents 18/07/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages it makes you think

    Disadvantages Disadvantages it makes you think

    David ran away from home, he was just nine years old. Only given food when he had completed his chores to the satisfaction of "the Mother" he dreaded weekends because no school to go to meant there was no food available to steal, even though he was made to vomit on his return to "the House" at the end to the day to prove his success at eating without permission, or the lack of it. Following yet another battle of wills between his parents when "the Mother" argued with Father, who had made an objection to her treatment of "It" or "the Boy", David was told to leave, to reinforce the message she ... more
  • 52 of 52 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    AimeeLouise18

    5 Stars five foster homes later and finally a man 04/08/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages opens your eyes to foster care children and life after abuse

    Disadvantages Disadvantages upsetting to read in places.

    ‘The Lost Boy’ is the gripping sequel to the emotion filled book, ‘A child called IT’. It follows Dave Pelzer from the age of twelve to eighteen and shows us just what happens after an abused child is removed from his or her ‘home’. *** About the book *** There was one fear after Dave left his ‘mother’, and that was that she’d find him. All his little life he had learned to fear the consequences of his mothers drinking. He endured unimaginable things, things that just don’t happen in the ‘real’ world. So leaving that hell for good just seemed too good to be true. In fact it didn’t sink in for ... more
  • 54 of 54 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    loufenner

    5 Stars Lost But Not Forgotten 28/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages compelling read.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages can be very upsetting

    This is the second part in the trilogy of the heart rending true story of David Pelzer. The first part “A Child Called It” told you about his life with his abusive, alcoholic mother. It ended where David was at the age of 12 and he had just been “rescued”. With the help of his school teachers and a police officer he was taken into the care of the “County Child Protective Service Agency”. This is where “The Lost Boy” continues with the horrific story. David is placed in his first of many foster homes with “Aunt Mary” and first meets ... more
  • 48 of 48 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Donnie_Brasco

    5 Stars Heartbreaking 05/06/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Gives first hand insight into the life of an abused child, Brings public awareness to the subject,

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Deserves a much wider audience

    + Plot Synopsis + The Lost Boy is the second book in the trilogy by author David Pelzer. It is the moving sequel to the highly acclaimed ‘A Child Called IT’. This book details Pelzer's adolescent years, from age 12 to age 18, and follows his experiences as a foster child after being rescued from abuse in 1973, to his decision to join the U.S. Air Force in 1979. The first chapter goes back to when he was only 9 years old, which gives the reader an insight into Dave Pelzer’s life as it was described in the first book. For people who have not read ‘A Child Called It’ ... more
  • 33 of 33 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    frannie

    5 Stars HOW 'IT' BECAME A 'BOY' 06/11/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages OPENS YOUR EYES TO THE PREJUDICES THAT OFTEN GET OVERLOOKED.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages DITTO

    After reading the first of Dave Pelzer’s trilogy ‘A child Called It’, I felt compelled to go out and get the sequel entitled ‘The Lost Boy’. Once I’d read about the horrific abuse he suffered at his so called mothers hands, I had to find out how he fared once he’d been 'rescued’. This book takes up at the point where the authorities have come to realise the abuse David has suffered and take court action and have him removed from the family home and into foster care at the age of 12. Not having experienced any love or care that we all accept as the norm during childhood, he finds it extremely ... more
  • 43 of 43 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Rach_79

    5 Stars A Foster Child's Search for the love of a Family 21/01/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Storyline

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    Having read the first in this trilogy it seems only right that I should continue onto the second book – The Lost Boy. I decided to buy this book because the first one was so captivating, it made me laugh, it made me cry both with tears of joy and sadness, but I had to know whether Dave was going to make it, would he survive, would he fulfill his dreams and find a family that loved him as their own, the one thing he had always craved. The Lost Boy is the harrowing, long-awaited sequel to A Child Called "It," and is the compelling story of young Dave, who is rescued from his abusive ... more
  • 11 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    sarahbethy

    5 Stars The amount one child can go through 23/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Will help you to understand foster care and how this can affect a child

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    If you cry at movies and if you refuse to watch the news because it makes you sad, then this book is not for you. Not since Angela’s Ashes, has a book affected me so much. ‘The Lost Boy’ is a follow up to ‘A child called it”, but I read this book first. This did not affected the understanding of the story at all, in fact, I thought it was a story at first, having picked it up and started reading but it’s no fairytale, it’s not even fiction. “The Lost Boy” describes Dave Pelzer’s life from the age of 12 to 18. Having suffering horrific child abuse since the age of five, at 12 Dave is rescued by ... more
  • 46 of 46 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Miss-D

    5 Stars David's emotional journey 02/09/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages You get a deep insight into the world of foster care.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Upsetting at times

    Well, having read the first book in this trilogy, ‘A child called “It”’, I literally rushed out to hunt for the second book. I eagerly wanted to follow Dave’s life throughout his teenage years and located the book at a cheaper price from Amazon. The Lost Boy is the second part of Dave Pelzer’s autobiography. The first book detailed his startlingly abusive and traumatic childhood, which surprisingly didn’t leave him dead as you may think. Instead, David is saved from his deranged mother and the hellhole he knows at home. The Lost boy tells of ... more
  • 29 of 30 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    HappyBunny

    3 Stars Am I so Cynical 15/11/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages N/a

    Disadvantages Disadvantages N/a

    Maybe I was harsh in my review of A Child Called ‘It’ and now that I’ve read The Lost Boy, I feel slightly more satisfied. Satisfaction however, is maybe the wrong word to use in this instance. If you have heard or read of Dave Pelzer’s memoirs of his childhood then you will already want to chuck a very large object through your monitor in the hope that it will hit me in cyberspace. When I’d read A Child Called ‘It’ I was very cynical. I felt that advantage had been taken of Pelzer’s horrific childhood, and that the good ole' marketing machine ... more
  • 17 of 17 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Louise90

    5 Stars You are an F Child 15/07/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages He was free from his Mother

    Disadvantages Disadvantages His Mother

    'The Lost Boy' covers David's life from the ages of 12 yrs - 18 yrs. From the ages of 4 - 12 he was horrifically abused, mentally and physically, by his alcoholic Mother. Surprisingly, his 3 brothers weren't. Why was he singled out from the others? Was he just the unlucky one? In this 2nd of 3 books on his life, he tells his emotional and raw tale of living in an institution and in 5 different foster home. Once the authorities took him away from his Mother, he was put into a children's home. Over the 6 years covered in this book, he was placed with 5 different foster carers. They were all good ... more
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