The Way It Works
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ByWilliam Kowalski (Author)
Ebook
Walter Davis is young, handsome, intelligent, dynamic, personable and homeless.
The product of a bi-racial marriage but abandoned by his father as a young child, he prides himself on three things: his drive to succeed, his fine clothes and never having been late for anything in his life. Walter is also homeless. The medical expenses that came with his mother's brief and unsuccessful battle against cancer have left him destitute. Still, ever the optimist, Walter believes that if he lives in his car for a few months, he will have the time he needs to find a good job in the business world and turn his life around. His situation gets more complicated when he finds himself attracted to a girl he meets at the mailing center where he keeps a post box. But trying to impress a girl when you have no fixed address proves difficult, and when he's caught in a lie, she shuns his company. Walter's struggles grow when his car is impounded and he can't afford to pay the fine. Only resilience, ingenuity and his drive to succeed can bring Walter back from the brink of despair.
This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for older teen readers and adults who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Accessibility
EPUB
- Screen reader and text-to-speech friendly
- Customizable text and layout
- Table of contents navigation
- Heading navigation
- Described images
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Other features
- Includes ARIA roles to organize and improve the structure and navigation
- Described chemical information
- Contains indexes
- Includes the page numbers of the print version
- There is a logical reading order to the text
- Text-to-speech hinting provided
A simple book with some images. This book contains various accessibility features. A digital rights page has been added and number of blank and/or ad pages in the print equivalent book have been removed or substituted from this digital EPUB. This publication conforms to WCAG 2.1 Level AA.
Author biographies
About William Kowalski
William Kowalski is the best-selling, award-winning author of many novels including seven in the Rapid Reads line. His first novel, Eddie's Bastard, won the 1999 Rosenstein Award, the 2001 Ama-Boeke Prize, and occupied the #5 spot on the Times of London bestseller list. His fifth novel, The Hundred Hearts, won the 2014 Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. He has been nominated three times for the Ontario Library Association's Golden Oak Award and his books have been translated into fifteen languages. William lives with his family in Nova Scotia.
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- Publisher
- Rapid Reads
- Collection
- Rapid Reads
- Categories
- Narrative theme: Sense of place, Romance, Narrative theme: Coming of age
- Publication date
- September 2010
- Pages
- 128
- Chapters
- 19
- Language
- English
- ISBN EPUB
- 9781554695577
- ISBN Paper
- 9781554693672




