Deborah Ellis

Looking for X is a children's novel written for ages 9-12 by Deborah Ellis. This novel is about an eleven-year-old girl named Khyber that lives in a poorer area, Regent Park, in Toronto, Ontario. She lives there with her mother and her twin brothers who are both autistic. One day Khyber shows up at school and is …

Life is bustling in Frank, Alberta, with more new settlers arriving every day in the booming mining town. Keeley is busier than ever, hatching plans for her newspaper and preparing for the upcoming spelling bee. She's bound and determined to outspell Peter! Everything changes, however, when a disastrous landslide …