The Lost Boy - Dave Pelzer Reviews

Dave Pelzer is without a doubt a superb author, no doubt known well to many because of his previous book, entitled A Child Called It. However, he has surpassed himself once again with this equally great effort - The Lost Boy - in which he details how he struggled with finding a family that would care and love for him. Since being ...  Read the complete review

Whilst reading this you will find it hard to both read on and put down at the same time. It goes into graphic detail about what his mother did to him and how basically the way he was treated worse than an animal by being locked up in the cellar and mocked at every turn. This is the second in the series and to be honest after reading the ...  Read the complete review

This book is the second out of the trilogy of Dave Pelzer's book, and after reading the first I had to continue on the story. The book with Dave being a twelve year old boy still living with his violent, sickening mother. However, soon after Dave's 'dreams' come true and his violence no longer goes unnoticed when he is moved ...  Read the complete review

The Lost Boy is the second book in the trilogy by author Dave Pelzer. His books make for difficult reading in terms of the subject as he writes about his childhood and the abuse which was given out to him by his mother. This book follows on from "A Child Called It" and covers his life from the age of 12 until he left ...  Read the complete review

Reading his publications i can admit that this reading is very very sad!!! I had to stop and carry on to get through it all as he reveled his awfull and sad childhood!! Even to this day i still think about him, what he must of gone through and how brave he is to share his story. i cant even begin to explain the torture and neglet he ...  Read the complete review

The continuation of David Pelzer Trilogy. The first book in this trilogy was A child called it. Giving true facts about Davids life from ages of 4-12 I am now going to try and tell you about the second book. The lost boy. Giving true facts about Davids life from the ages of 12-18. March 5th 1973 David was rescued, his ...  Read the complete review

A child called it- david pelzer. I read this quite a while ago now, it has to be one of the best , if not the best book ive ever read , and ive read alot of books.I got really into it and could not put it down until it was finished. It is a very emotional book, i cried, i felt sympathy , anger at davids tormentor , fear for him and ...  Read the complete review

I rread a 'Child Called IT,' and to be honest I cried, I cried for ages, mostly because it brought back memories, and I thought about all of those children out there who it is happening to, and yet I can't do anything to help them. I myself was abused, metanlly, pysically, sexually, and have survived, I to have broken the ...  Read the complete review

the most inspiring story ever told - Advantages: education on child abuse, understanding, helping to get through a simialer situation - Disadvantages: emotional, grief, flash backs

+ 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, ...  Read the complete review

It's been a while since I've written an opinion, so thought I'd get back into the swing of things by writing about a book I've recently read. The book is "A Child Called 'It'" By Dave Pelzer. This being a true story, based in the USA, is a story of his own child abuse case as a child. ...  Read the complete review

i am 15 years old and have read many many books and never in my life have i came across books with so many lessons in them than that of the books of Mr Dave Pelzer he is truly and outstanding hero and what a person he has turned out to be. It escapes me why any mother would want to treat a child in such way but this books learns you to ...  Read the complete review

I have been reading one of the most fascinating books I have read in a long time although fascinating may not be the correct word to use! However if you have read this book you will know what I mean when I say that it is a difficult book to put down. ?A Child Called It? is a true story about a young boy in the 70?s who suffered ...  Read the complete review

Dave Pelzer, a man with so much courage, a true survivor. He has written three books about his life through to adulthood. A young boy beaten and tortured throughout his childhood, by his own mother. She calls him ‘it’ undeserved of his name; she starves and beats him day after day. This particular book is about how he ...  Read the complete review

A child called it is one of the most moving true stories I have ever read. It was written by Dave Pelzer, who, as a child, was abused so badly by his mother that it was documented as the third worst child abuse case ever recorded in California. The most appauling thing about this, as you will discover on reading the book, is that there ...  Read the complete review

Where do I start with this amazing book? This is about Dave Pelzer a boy who was constantly abused from the age of 4 till his escape when he was 11. The book starts when he is rescued then goes back to the beginning where his mother was actually very loving and kind to him and his brothers, then all of a sudden singled Dave ...  Read the complete review

The first time I heard about this book (a few years ago) I though it was just another 'normal' book, what I didn't bank on was seeing this book in the libary. I picked the book up and started reading it, I lost track of time and when I had finished three hours had passed and I was sitting there crying. This book ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

After reading A Child Called It in which a boy named David Pelzer who is also the author was brutally beaten and starved by his Alcoholic and unstable mother, I just had to rush out and buy the second book in the trilogy, The Lost Boy. This book is not quite as horrific as the first one but its a great book none the less. ...  Read the complete review

With a story like this it’s really hard to know where to begin. It’s a tale of abuse, a tale of sorrow, a tale of hope at the end of a long hard struggle and also a tale which will make even the most hard hearted people who read it feel shocked at the horrible wretched life David Pelzer suffered as a ...  Read the complete review