Heavy Freight
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BySigmund Brouwer (Author)
Ebook
Fifteen-year-old Maxwell Stone has been surviving and thriving in the tough part of East Vancouver by being smart and fast.
But when a drug deal goes wrong, Max suddenly finds himself on the run from both the bad guys and the cops. Desperate to escape, Max impulsively decides to hop on a moving freight train. His first attempt to climb aboard fails, but at the last second a hand reaches down and pulls him in. Joseph has been riding the rails for years, and his tales inspire Max to take a journey to the last place he ever expected to go.
This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for teen readers 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
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Fully accessible
- Profiles:
- WCAG 2.0 AA
- Certified by:
- https://bornaccessible.org
- 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 2.2 Level AA.
Author biographies
About Sigmund Brouwer
Sigmund Brouwer is the award-winning author of over 100 books for young readers, with over five million books in print. He has won a Christy Book of the Year and an Arthur Ellis Award, and some of his titles were finalists for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award (twice) and the Red Maple Award. Sigmund has captivated students with his Story Ninja writing program during his school visits, reaching over one million students since 1990. His many books in the Orca Sports, Orca Soundings and Orca Currents lines have changed the lives of countless striving readers. Sigmund lives in Red Deer, Alberta.
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- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Collection
- Orca Soundings
- Categories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Action & adventure stories, Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories, Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction
- Publication date
- November 2017
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- ISBN EPUB
- 9781459814776
- ISBN Paper
- 9781459814752




