` Abbie Rader
Title: The lost boy
Author: Dave Pelzer
Publisher: Health Communications, Incorporated
Publication Date: September 1997
Number of pages: 250
Lost boy is a follow up to Dave Pelzer's book A Child Called It. This Novel Is a Auto-biography by Dave Pelzer. It follows his experiences in the foster care system. After being taken from his mother Dave goes from one foster home to another and he describes his life there.
The Novel starts out where it left off in the novel A Child called "It" which is his mother as always abusing him. To better knowledge you on this book the first paragraph of this novel reads ( I'm alone. I'm hungry and I'm shivering in the dark. I sit on top of my hands at the bottom of the stairs in the garage. My head is tilted backward. My hands became numb hours ago. My neck and shoulder muscles begin to throb. But that's nothing new- I've learned to turn off the pain. I'm Mother's prisoner.) This nine years old boy was treated worse......
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Approximate Word Count: 367
Approximate Pages: 2 (260 words per double-spaced page) |