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

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

Dave Pelzer #2

Dave Pelzer

339 pages first pub 1997 (view editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography memoir emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
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Readers who crave an emotionally intense journey that exposes the hidden failures and quiet triumphs of the child-welfare system will find this memoir both harrowing and ultimately uplifting.

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The Lost Boy is the harrowing but ultimately uplifting true story of a boy's journey through the foster-care system in search of a family to love. This is Dave Pelzer's long-awaited sequel to A Child Called It. The Lost Boy is Pelzer's story--a mo...

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3.89
based on 4,110 reviews

Moods

emotional: 88%

sad: 79%

dark: 54%

inspiring: 37%

challenging: 36%

hopeful: 36%

reflective: 35%

informative: 30%

tense: 30%

funny: 4%

adventurous: 2%


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