TAR: Looking for X

[Robin Shtulman <shtulman@ERVING.COM>]

HI!

I'm hoping to get your opinions on
Looking for X, by Deborah Ellis.

Do any of you have it in your k - 6 schools?
I'm in the middle of reading it, and think it's very good, but am
wondering about its appropriateness for a not quite yet YA audience.

Book Description (from amazon)
Smart and independent, 11-year-old Khyber lives with her mom, Tammy, a
former stripper, 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. Despite having to deal with pompous social workers who
make her mother cry and ignorant kids who make remarks about her
brothers, Khyber manages to enjoy herself, poring over atlases,
planning exotic journeys, and taking peanut butter sandwiches to X. But
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.

Thanks!

Robin
Robin Shtulman
Librarian
Erving Elementary School
Erving, MA
shtulman@erving.com
http://www.erving.com/library/erving_library.htm

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