The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story of Longing for Acceptance and Friendship

I have read A Child Called "It", The Lost Boy, A Man Named Dave and Help Yourself and I must say that this book was not Dave's best work. The writing did not keep me interested as his other books have. While reading this I felt like the passion just wasn't there.

enjoyed reading his books, but, when i got to this book, i felt i was reading the last two books over again. It seems dave was repeated himself.

this is a good book! i love it when dave sees that boy from the lost boy, and the boy says what you call my sister? then david says a horror? then the boy punches dave, makes his nose bleed, and says, don't you ever, ever, call my sister a whore again! read it if you like dave pelzer as much as me!

It was all I could do to pull through the first book, "A boy called It." I had a few restless nights--most books do not make me cry. I almost put it down, but I'm glad I made it. I went through some ordeals myself, in a large and broken family by the age of 10. Today I cannot see how so many older people who surrounded me depended on me so much when I was so young! But, some people are just caretakers. I, however, was only threatened, by my own mother, to be put in foster care, if I did not conform to her demands. Unfortunately (?), foster care never happened for me. I felt that "The Lost Boy," despite it's brief account of David's travels (320 something pages), was all we needed or were meant to know. Books, even factual ones, are meant to beguile and send the reader on their own personal travels. The Lost Boy was certainly deep enough to see David's early mistakes in foster homes--but his "mistakes" were only in the sense of innocence, lack of knowledge, and growth yet to come. David went from a completely unsafe life to short-lived comforts and insecurity. Some people, whose young lives were filled with adversity, like David's, or mine, or others, find adulthood a fulfilling and wonderful chance to mend and enhance others lives. I cannot wait to read A Man Called David, and how he came to talk about his son, Stephen, and himself, as a family. I wonder what became of Stephen's mother....

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Read every Dave Pelzer book he writes. He is an exceptional human being. There should be more people like him without having to go through the abuse he endured.

The Privilege of Youth by Dave Pelzer,is about Dave Pelzer's life as a teenager.Dave tells in the book what he went through as a teenager.He didn't fit in with the others around him because he was different.He also got beat up a lot for that same reason, because he was different.Dave had a hard life, but later on in his teen years his life began to get easier.
The Privilege of Youth was an excellent book.I liked the book a lot because Dave got beat up a lot because he was different from the other students around him.Also he didn't know what the "slang words" meant cause he never really had the chance or enough confidence in himself to make friends to find out what those "slang words" meant.He finally found a home where he could feel comfortable and belong.He also makes two friends.Those two boys actually made him feel like he was someone and he belonged.
I recommend this book to anybody over the age of 15 or anyone who is mature and likes books by the author Dave Pelzer.