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I admit. I haven't read The Lost Boy, and skipped straight ahead to this book in the Dave Pelzer series because my mother didn't have the second book in her collection. I still haven't read The Lost Boy and I fully intend to reread the whole series this year. I read this back when I was fifteen, after rereading A Child Called "It" for the second time, and my heart sings with happiness. Every time I think back on this book, I tear up a tiny bit, smiling because he made it.As a person who had to suffer through abuse in my childhood, and right up to when I was eighteen before I moved out, Pelzer is an idol. He managed to get through it all, and make something of his life. He is a father, and he is a good father. He does not let his childhood twist him into something distorted. He accepts what happened to him, and he moved through it, and he allows it to define him only in the best possible ways. I have so much respect for him.Reading this book was really something I needed to do. This gave me a lot of hope growing up that I never had before. This series is inspiring to everyone that has gone through abuse in their life, or is going through it.This series teaches us that we are not alone, we do not have to be defined negatively from what happens to us, and we do not need to feel terrible because of it. We can live, and we can become a wonderful, loving person. This book is a definite read, and I will read this whole series for a long, long time and it will definitely be on my book shelf for the rest of my life.