The Boy Who Lost His Face

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The Boy Who Lost His Face

Author	Louis Sachar
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Children's novel
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	1989
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	198 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-679-88622-2

The Boy Who Lost His Face (ISBN 0-679-88622-2) is a novel by Louis Sachar. The story focuses on a group of young boys. One of them (David), joining in with the 'cool crew', helps to steal an old woman's cane. When she finds them, she cries out "Your Doppelgänger will regurgitate on your soul!" Following this, the protagonist finds himself repeatedly experiencing the same misfortunes he passed on to the old woman.

Themes of the occult and youthful sexuality are explored in the novel, and its resulting suppression has garnered it position 49 on the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000.[1]

[edit] Plot summary

In the book The Boy Who Lost His Face by: Louis Sachar, a boy named David tries to get in the cool group by helping his friends Scott, Randy, and Roger carry out a prank. Their target was an elderly woman who was called a witch by all the kids in the neighborhood. When they attacked her and stole her cane David flicks her off to try to impress Randy. But when they leave the old lady cried out to David "Your Doppelgänger will regurgitate on your soul!" The following days David finds himself experiencing strange happenings that lead him to believe that he is cursed. After being rejected by Randy and his gang David finds himself unable to do anything right. He breaks his parent's window, his little brother hates him, his zipper is unzipped, his pants fall down in front of the whole school, and he falls off his chair in every class. He also makes friends with the weird kids in the school, Larry and Maureen "Mo". His actions make him seem like one of the three stooges.