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Looking for X

Khyber lives with her mother, a former stripper, and her autistic twin brothers in a poor community. Most of the time she is happy. Then things start to fall apart. The only solution seems to be to find X, a mysterious homeless woman. Originally published: Toronto, Ont.: Groundwood, 2000.

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  • "Khyber lives with her mother, a former stripper, and her autistic twin brothers in a poor community. Most of the time she is happy. Then things start to fall apart. The only solution seems to be to find X, a mysterious homeless woman. Originally published: Toronto, Ont.: Groundwood, 2000."@en
  • ""Eleven-year-old Khyber lives with her mother, a former stripper, and her autistic twin brothers in Regent Park, a poor neighborhood in Toronto. But most of the time she's perfectly happy with the way things are. She has her friends, including Valerie, the meanest waitress in the city, and X, a mysterious homeless woman who is always hiding from the "secret place." And she has big plans to explore faraway, exotic places like her namesake, the Khyber Pass."
  • "11-year-old Khyber has a special relationship with her autistic twin brothers and with a homeless woman she calls X, for whom she searches desperately on one long and eventful night."
  • "11-year-old Khyber has a special relationship with her autistic twin brothers and with a homeless woman she calls X, for whom she searches desperately on one long and eventful night."@en
  • "Eleven-year-old Khyber embarks on a desperate, all-night search for her friend, X, that proves even more wild than any adventure she has ever imagined."@en
  • "When Khyber's mother decides to move her autistic brother into a special home and her homeless friend goes missing, Khyber's special world is suddenly turned upside down."@en
  • ""Eleven-year-old Khyber lives with her mother and autistic twin brothers in a low-income area in Toronto. In addition to her problems at school (she skipped two grades and doesn't fit in), she deals with her mother's decision to send her brothers to a group home, some menacing skinheads, a false accusation of vandalism that gets her expelled, and a search for her homeless "friend, "X."
  • "In this urban adventure story, a smart, bold, eleven-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood sets out to find her friend X, a mysterious homeless woman who has gone missing."@en
  • ""In this gritty, urban novel, an 11-year-old girl sets out to find her friend - a mysterious, homeless woman who has gone missing. Her all-night, downtown odyssey culminates in wild adventure" Cf. Our choice, 2000."@en

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  • "Children's stories"
  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Coming of age"
  • "Belonging"

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  • "Sinnombre"@es
  • "Looking for X"
  • "Looking for X"@en
  • "Looking for x"@en

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