The Lost Boy.

About The Lost Boy

The Lost Boy (1997) is the second installment of a trilogy of books about the life of David Pelzer, who as a young boy was physically, emotionally, mentally, and psychologically abused by his mother and alcoholic father. A sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-nominated A Child Called It, in 2002 The New York Times Magazine reported that The Lost Boy had spent 160 weeks on its bestseller list for non-fiction paperbacks.