First Quarter outside reading book review

The lost boy, by David Pelzer. Genre: Auto Biography

The lost boy is the sequel to a child called it. It is about him while he was a child, David was abused, and this book shows how he gets away from his mother. He has a tough time fitting in with his friends. He tries to be someone he's not. He steals from stores to impress people, and his so called "friend" set a fire then blamed him for it. He got sent to Juvenile Hall for that, but he got off easy with good behavior. It wasn't all that easy, his mother tries to claim that David was crazy, and that she did nothing wrong. She tried to get him sent to a mental hospital so he wouldn't be happy and so she could win. The judge didn't by it though because of his excellent behavior at Judi. David was a wild troublemaker. Many people didn't like him because he was an "F Child" (foster child), they thought that it was his fault that he was a foster child and not a lot of people wanted to have anything to do with him.
"One child who never had anything at all, searches for something he never had before, love" It says on the back cover.
David Pelzer really exemplifies what he is thinking. He really wants everyone to know exactly how he felt when he was a child. He wanted everyone to know that kids who were abused, who have to juggle through different foster homes, have a real hard time fitting in with the other kids. He showed a lot of his thought because; he didn't talk too much because he didn’t have anyone to really talk to until he was a teenager and got real friends, who actually cared about him. This is way different from the harry potter books, or the hardy boy books, because the other books really describe the scenery very well. They put more effort into the imagery of the book, rather than the thoughts and the words that are being said.
"I might as well give up. She wins, she always wins." (David was thinking to himself) This is a good example because it shows his fear, and how much she controls him, just through his thoughts.
This book was excellent. The author, who is also the character, really showed emotion while writing this book. It is hard to really pin point the theme, but I would say abuse is bad, or be yourself. The general reason why he wrote this book was to show how hard it is for children who are abused. But the be yourself is a theme, because when he was just a child he tried to be something that he wasn't, and all the kids who were his "friend" were just using him. It wasn't until he was a teenager until he started to be himself, and that is when he got friends that actually cared about him. This book affected me because it made me realize even more that foster children are not bad, and abuse is just horrible. Even when the abuse ended he had a hard time because he didn't fit in, he was jumping from school to school, and he was jumping from house to house. I enjoyed this story because it always made me want to read more, there was just something about it that I did not want to put it down.