Title Looking for X / Deborah Ellis

Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2003 ©1999

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Ell/Lfx		AVAILABLE
MELB CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Ell/Lfx		AVAILABLE

Description 122 pages ; 20 cm regular print Series Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge ; 7-8 Summary Smart and independent, 11-year-old Khyber lives with her mom, Tammy, and her autistic twin brothers in a poor Toronto neighborhood. Though she doesn't have a lot in common with her classmates, Khyber does have wonderfully eccentric friends: Valerie, Toronto's meanest waitress, and X, a homeless woman in hiding from "the secret police." When Tammy decides to move her sons to a group home for proper care, Khyber's world starts to crumble. She fights with her mom and then gets expelled from school. To make matters worse, X suddenly disappears. Khyber sets out to find her in a wild all-night odyssey of self-discovery Notes Previously published: Toronto, Ont. : Groundwood ; Andover : Ragged Bears, 2000 Audience For children aged 11-14 years Subject Friendship -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction. Families -- Fiction. Autistic children -- Fiction. Friendship -- Juvenile fiction. Family problems -- Juvenile fiction Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction. Autism -- Juvenile fiction. Toronto (Ont.) -- Juvenile fiction. Canada -- Juvenile fiction. Genre/Form Coming of age. Belonging. Coming of age Belonging Novels. Illustrated works. LC no. 00002433 ISBN 1741141273 :

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