Research Catalog

Title

The lost boy : a foster child's search for the love of a family / Dave Pelzer.

Author

Pelzer, David J.

Publication

Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, c1997.

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Details

Description

xi, 340 p.; 19 cm.

Summary

This volume is the second installment of a trilogy of books which depict the life of the author, who as a young boy who was physically, emotionally, and psychologically abused by his obsessive mother. The book discusses Pelzer's struggling with his ability to fit in and adapt to the new environment around him as he is put into foster care. It also talks about the kindness of his foster parents and other people around him as well as his inability to brush his mother aside.

Subject

• Pelzer, David J
• Foster Home Care
• Domestic Violence
• Child of Impaired Parents
• Child Abuse
• Alcoholism
• Abused children > California > Daly City > Biography
• Children of alcoholics > California > Daly City > Biography
• Abusive mothers > California > Daly City > Family relationships
• Family violence > California > Daly City
• Foster home care > California > Case studies
• Abusive mothers > Family relationships > California > Daly City

Genre/Form

• Personal Narrative
• Biographies
• Case studies
• Young adult literature.
• Case studies.
• Biography.
• Nonfiction.
• Personal narratives.
• Personal narratives

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The runaway -- An angel named Ms. Gold -- The trial -- New beginnings -- Adrift -- The defiant one -- Mother's love -- Estranged -- Coming around -- Break away -- Epilogue -- Perspectives on foster care -- Keynotes, workshops, and school assemblies.

ISBN

1558745157 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97017614^//r97

OCLC

• 36977169
• SCSB-11104286

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library