El Niño Perdido (Other)

from tracylg13

I just finished "The Lost Boy". It really gave a look into a childs view of being a foster child. It makes me look at children different who are not always seemed as "normal". The book also gives hope to others who have doubted their furture as either a foster parent or foster child. I recommend ...

from ctmscadi

Dave Pelzer was a young boy, isolated from the rest of the world by his abusive mother. In The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer, the sequel to A Child Called "It", Dave is rescued from his family and is put into foster care. There, he is moved in and out of five different foster homes and has to go to cou...

from df1a_jasminC

This book is about a boy who use to get abused by his mother and in up in a foster home. He was happy to be a foster kid into he found out how people treat them. So he stared tyo think he"s not going to be anything in life. He started to hang with the big kids and he started to steal. and he real...

from t1bnotown

When we finish A Child Called "It", we think that Dave's troubles must be over, but this book shows us how he struggles with more of his mother's mind games, the legal system of the early 1970s that did not offer adequit child protections from birth parents, the instability of a series of foster ...

from MarthaJeanne

In many ways I found this book even more disturbing than the first one. That some families are totally disfunctional is sad, even tragic. But the fumbling way society goes about trying to help those who have managed to survive such a life is a condemnation of us all.