Hide and Shriek
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ByAlison Hughes (Author)
Ebook
An innocent game of hide 'n seek turns deadly when four friends witness something they were never meant to see.
When Emily, Tess, Cam and Dylan decide to ignore the new town curfew during their Friday-night game of hide-and-seek, they get more than they bargained for. Down by the river, they witness a shady deal go down involving some criminal types who recently moved into their neighborhood. When the teens are discovered, they are hunted through the dark streets and back alleys. They will have to use all their hide-and-seek skills to save each other. Ultimately, Emily, the youngest of the group and the best hider, discovers that sometimes staying hidden is the best way to escape.
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 Alison Hughes
Alison Hughes is an award-winning author of many books for children and young adults, including The Silence Slips In, winner of the R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature and Hit the Ground Running, a nominee for the Governor General's Literary Award. Alison is a university Writing Advisor, volunteers with children and literacy groups and gives frequent workshops and presentations at schools, libraries, festivals and conferences across Canada. She lives in Edmonton with her family.
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- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Collection
- Orca Soundings
- Categories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children's / Teenage fiction: Thrillers
- Publication date
- August 2018
- Pages
- 144
- Chapters
- 19
- Language
- English
- ISBN EPUB
- 9781459818750
- ISBN Paper
- 9781459818736




