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

The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
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This is the long-awaited, inspiring sequel to Dave Pelzer\'s autobiographical book \"A Child Called \'It\'\". Although now rescued from his alcoholic, abusive mother, another kind of pain is just beginning for him-- he has no place to call home. As an adolescent foster child, he experiences the instability of moving from home to home, the journey of this little lost boy who desperately searches for the love of a family. Regardless of your opinions of the foster-care and social-service systems, Pelzer is a living testament to the necessity of their existence.