The Thing You're Good At
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ByLesley Choyce (Author)
Ebook
Key Selling PointsNew, enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.After her parents are deported, Maria's life is not only upended, it's in danger.
Jake's friend Maria is the daughter of undocumented immigrants who have been living and working in the country for a long time. But the new government has implemented a crackdown. Maria's parents are detained and quickly sent out of the country. Maria, who was born here, decides to hide out in Jake's basement rather than risk becoming a ward of the state. But when she returns to her old apartment to retrieve her hidden birth certificate, Maria is abducted by young men on the lookout for teenage girls who have lost their parents to deportation. Jake is determined to rescue Maria before she's turned over to the authorities. Or worse.
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
- Includes the page numbers of the print version
- There is a logical reading order to the text
- Text-to-speech hinting provided
This title is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as table of content, page-list, landmark, reading order, Structural Navigation, and semantic structure. This publication conforms to WCAG 2.0 Level AA. There is a page list and embedded page-breaks within this EPUB to aid in the ability to go to a specific page.
Author biographies
About Lesley Choyce
Lesley Choyce, who has been teaching English and creative writing for over thirty years, is the author of more than 100 books of literary fiction, short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction and young adult novels. He has won the Dartmouth Book Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Ann Connor Brimer Award. He has also been short-listed for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor, the White Pine Award, the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award, the Aurora Award from the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association and, most recently, the Governor General’s Literary Award. He lives at Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia.
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- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Collection
- Orca Soundings
- Categories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories
- Publication date
- August 2018
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- ISBN EPUB
- 9781459818064
- ISBN Paper
- 9781459818040




