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

Very easy read in terms of text and format. Difficult read based on subject matter. Images you will not soon forget. This was ordered for a sophmore health class...I just happened to read out of curiosity. Disturbing for young readers.

The Lost Boy
Author: Dave Pelzer
Book review by: Casey Therrian
6th Grade, Mrs. Roberts

A lost boy looking for a home and the love of a family. He has almost no
possessions accept his old and torn clothes. His so called family is no help
to him his mother is an alcoholic and his dad doesn't make his own decisions. This is a true story about the author of the book, Dave Pelzer

The setting in story is mostly at the home and the foster home. At first it is just at the home...not so pretty, and then when he gets sent to the foster home we spend most of the story there.

The main characters Dave Pelzer put in this book is David the little boy, Mother the one who abuses David, Father who very much doesn't care, Aunt Mary the lady who watches him at the foster home, and Mrs. Gold the sweet lady who helps David get through this. There is more characters but they were not mentioned in the book as much. There is no story without David though because He's the whole story

The little boy lives with his parents, but he got tired of her abuse so he ran off, gets found and took into a foster home. Where he is still not accepted.

Is this young boy ever going find a family to love and comfort him, to give him a feeling he's never felt before?

The theme of this book is...odd everything happens at once and it just jumps out at you, get ready...you might just get hooked...

I would for sure recommend this book to anyone, this book "The Lost Boy" is an emotional book. It shows you what is really important in life.


The End

The book The Lost Boy by David Pelzer is recommended to teenagers and adults. This book may be too graphic for children. This is a true story about Dave Pelzer as a child going through five different foster homes after being taken out of his home from his mother. This book, in my opinion, was a very well written book. It might make the reader uncomfortable, because of great details throughout this book. Many people may like this book because as you read it feels as though you start to care for the character deeply and start to feel what he is feeling. Some of the things his mother did to him would be to make him eat poop, or make him eat his own puke.

The Lost Boy connects to another book named The Pearl. Both books connect with each other because of their strength and courage. David Pelzer went through abuse physically and emotionally. Physically from his mother and emotionally because of how other people treated him. People treated Dave differently because he was a foster child. In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Kino, one of the main characters, showed courage by being willing to go and die for his family. My reaction to both books was great. In The Lost Boy I personally loved how throughout the book he is searching for something he never thought he would find, and finally at the end of the book he found it.

This book along with the accomping book a child called it are page turners and was not able to put it down one acceptional book. Also read the last book at it is just as good when you purchase this book you want to order all of them together so that you can read the others as soon as you finish the first one.

The second story of survival. A must read for those who read the first story, A child called it.