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Stowawaycoverforsocialmedia.Pdf Dear Reader, People-smuggling is a very current topic these days, but Stowaway puts an adventurous twist on it. Owen is a bored, West Coast Canadian teen who decides to stow away on a visiting yacht just for fun. Imagine his shock to find it holds six Guatemalan teens whose parents have paid the captain and his first mate — a captive former street kid — to leave violent Guatemala and usher them illegally into Canada. The idea for this book sprang from learning that, legally, ships in need of temporary harbour during a storm must be allowed to dock. Owen’s family owns a marina, his parents are away, and the stormy night’s arrival intrigues him. Then he meets the “clients” and figures out the setup — knowledge that means the captain is now unwilling to release him. Meanwhile, a haunting incident in his past urges Owen to make poor decisions. When the captain fails to release the boys, Owen engineers an escape — until he’s double-crossed. The captain locks everyone but his first mate into the engine room of the tug, destroys the boat’s controls, and points it seaward under full speed in a storm. The boys team up to turn the tug around and barrel toward the yacht for a final confrontation that will set the first mate free. Home safe and having redefined trust, friendship, and family, Owen hopes the boys might be released to join him there one day. Pam Wither s STOWAWAY Pam Withers Owen’s plan to sail away on an adventure puts him on a collision course with some very dangerous people. FORMAT Paperback EPUB PDF 5 in (W), 8 in (H) 9781459741911 9781459741935 9781459741928 216 pages $12.99, £8.99 $8.99, £5.99 $12.99, £8.99 KEY SELLING POINTS • A nautical adventure story where a teen stowaway stumbles on a human trafficking scheme • Suspensefully written, with white-knuckle tension throughout • Explores the world below-deck on a luxurious yacht, as the teen stowaway tries to evade a sinister captain and lead a mutiny at sea • Author has written eighteen YA adventure novels, including 2017’s Tracker’s Canyon “A great choice for filling the dearth of realistic adventure novels for the middle-school crowd.” —School Library Journal, for T racker’s Canyon RIGHTS AGES Worldwide 12 to 15 years BISAC YAF001020 – YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories YAF059130 – YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Sports & Recreation / Water Sports YAF058210 – YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Runaways ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pam Withers is an award-winning author of over a dozen teen adventure novels, including Tracker’s Canyon and Andreo’s Race, and two nonfiction books. She is a former outdoor guide, journalist, and editor. Pam lives in Vancouver. STAY CONNECTED #Stowaway Pam Withers @pamwithers pamwithers.com MARKETING AND PUBLICITY • Bookmarks • Guest Post on Dundurn Blog • Festival pitches • Consumer, library, bookseller, and • Event promotion: posters, evites author newsletters • Trade shows, school and library • Key Influencer mailing conferences • Bookseller mailing, enhanced • Launch event, Vancouver packaging • Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, • Targeted media and blogger review Instagram, Dundurn.com campaigns mailings • Goodreads giveaway • Advance Reading Copies available, • Cover and sample chapter reveal enhanced quantity • Digital Reader Copies available: • Shelf Talkers NetGalley, Edelweiss ABOUT THE BOOK When Owen’s parents leave him on his own for a week, the sixteen-year-old gets bored and hatches a crazy idea: sneaking on to the yacht that’s visiting the sleepy Pacific Coast island where he lives, and stowing away on an adventure! Once on board the vessel, though, Owen quickly finds out this is anything but innocent fun. The ship is packed with teenagers from Central America, and it looks like Owen has stumbled into a people-smuggling operation. Complications pile up, and as things head from bad to worse, a haunting incident from Owen’s past tightens its grip on him. There’s only one way to break free and make his way home. Owen and the first mate, Arturo — a former street kid — must work together to commandeer the boat and win the trust of those on board. But who’s friend and who’s foe in the shifting tides? BY THE SAME AUTHOR TRACKER’S CANYON Pam Withers 9781459739635 Paperback $12.99, 184 pgs For orders in Canada contact UTP Distribution, 1.800.565.9523 For orders in the U.S. contact Ingram Publisher Services, 1.866.400.5351 @dundurnpress dundurn.com STOWAWAY 9781459741911_INT.indb 1 2018-02-05 14:14 9781459741911_INT.indb 2 2018-02-05 14:14 STOWAWAY PAM WITHERS 9781459741911_INT.indb 3 2018-02-05 14:14 Copyright © Pam Withers, 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or trans- mitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (ex- cept for brief passages for purpose of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright. All characters in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Cover image: FOG: Shutterstock.com/leolintang BOAT: shutterstock.com/Girts Pavlins Printer: Webcom Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Withers, Pam, author Stowaway / Pam Withers. Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 978-1-4597-4191-1 (softcover).--ISBN 978-1-4597-4192-8 (PDF).-- ISBN 978-1-4597-4193-5 (EPUB) I. Title. PS8595.I8453S76 2018 jC813’.6 C2017-907455-5 C2017-907456-3 1 2 3 4 5 22 21 20 19 18 We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million an Ontario government agency un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country, and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of theGovernment of Ontario, through the On- tario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and the Gov- ernment of Canada. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays. Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions. — J. Kirk Howard, President The publisher is not responsible for websites or their content unless they are owned by the publisher. Printed and bound in Canada. Dundurn VISIT US AT dundurn.com | @dundurnpress | dundurnpress | dundurnpress 3 Church Street, Suite 500 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5E 1M2 9781459741911_INT.indb 4 2018-02-05 14:14 9781459741911_INT.indb 5 2018-02-05 14:14 9781459741911_INT.indb 6 2018-02-05 14:14 PROLOGUE Guatemala City, Guatemala ARTURO Crack! Crack! The sound of gunshots rips my eyes open and sends rats scurrying across the abandoned warehouse. “Try in there!” Men’s shouts make me spring up from the dirt-coated concrete floor, where the kids and I have been dozing in a corner. Fifteen pairs of sleep-deprived eyes widen and turn to me in the near-total darkness. Small, grimy hands reach out to grip my arm, but no one makes a sound. Not so much as a whimper. I have trained them well. “Follow me!” I whisper. I grab my backpack and roll through the hole in the crumbling brick wall beside us. The night’s fresh, salty air fills my lungs as I get to my feet and head for the bay. I twist around once, just in time to see the last child crawl through the gap sec- onds before the watchmen’s powerful flashlights shine 9781459741911_INT.indb 7 2018-02-05 14:14 PAM WITHERS there. In the pre-dawn stillness, the soft pounding of the youngsters’ feet behind me gives wind to my own. Not a night passes that I don’t have a backup plan. It is why my contingent of street kids and I are still alive. Tonight, I’m aiming for the empty Dumpster beside the shipyard, no more than a two-minute sprint away. But I worry about them all fitting inside. The size of my group has become unwieldy. “Too many of us,” pants Freddy, my second-in- command, not for the first time. At eleven, he’s the oldest and most street-savvy of them all — ready, we’ve agreed, to take command of his own pack soon. My group is dangerously large because, unlike other teen leaders, I don’t beat my charges. And when bruised, battered, homeless boys show up after defecting from other clans, I don’t have the heart to turn away these mirror images of my six-year-old self. “Take half the boys tomorrow,” I tell Freddy as we reach the Dumpster. “Or all if I get whacked.” His lips curl into a grim smile. The slight squeak as I lift the Dumpster lid is drowned out by our pursuers’ continued shouts. I cup my hands to hoist the youngest boy up by his foot, like I once saw a rich man lifting his child onto a saddled pony. With the older boys helping, they’re soon all up and over. Freddy throws himself on top of the squirming pile, shushing them as I lower the lid. “Get him!” a guard shouts, and I know it is time to dart away, to direct the armed posse elsewhere, like a mother bird with a faked limp. 8 9781459741911_INT.indb 8 2018-02-05 14:14 STOWAWAY Crack! Crack! Heart flipping and ears ringing with the noise of bullets whizzing over my head, I leap onto the deck of a docked yacht and scurry to the far side.
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