Book Review #16 ~ Looking for X

I'm back with yet another book review. This one is by a pretty famous author. It's by the author who wrote "The Breadwinner." Deborah Ellis. She wrote another book, which I found pretty exciting and gripping. It's called:
Searching for X - Deborah Ellis

Adventure-loving Khyber is an 11-year-old girl who struggles to help her mother make ends meet. Her mother was a former stripper. She was poor then, and she is poor now. And being a single mom with three kids, Khyber and her two autistic twin brothers, her mother is beyond stressed and is practically living on Asprin. Khyber, despite all the difficulties in their household, (and trust me, there are more difficulties than you could ever imagine) is perfectly fine and handles her life in a positive, glass is half-full way. The story comes to a heavy climax when her mother decides that she will give the twins away to a home because she simply can't handle them anymore. Khyber is shocked, and then angry when she finds out that her mother would do such a thing. While Khyber is stressing about this issue, not wanting to let her brothers go, she is suddenly framed for a crime that she didn't commit. Her mother doesn't take her side when she pleads her innocence to the school principal, which makes Khyber even more frustrated, angry, and overflowing with so many other emotions. When she becomes overwhelmed with everything happening around her, she goes searching for her homeless friend X, hoping that X can help her out of what seems to be a bottomless pit.

This book was just as good as "The Breadwinner," if not better. I thought that it was a very gripping book. I wanted to scream and pull my hair out when her mother and the principal both believed that Khyber had commited the crime. I loved the fact that the book made me want to do this, because the way Deborah Ellis had written this was very rousing. I would definitely recommend this to everyone, for this is an exceptional book that everyone would love!
Be back soon~!