Do you listen to Young Adult audiobooks? If not, this summer is a perfect time to start! You can check out audiobooks from the library and check out the SYNC program.
SYNC is trying to develop the audience of teen/YA audiobook listeners by offering two complete digital audiobooks for download every week during the summer. Each week there will be a current Young Adult title paired thematically with a Classic or assigned Summer Reading title. They are available for free to listeners ages 13+.
Here are the SYNC Titles for Summer 2011:
Available June 23 – June 29
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
Available June 30 – July 6
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Available July 7 – July 13
Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Available July 14 – July 20
The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney
Beowulf by Francis B. Gummere [Trans.]
Available July 21 – July 27
Chanda’s Secrets by Allan Stratton
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Available July 28 – August 3
Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari
Rescue: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea by Dorcas S. Miller [Ed.]
Available August 4 – August 10
Immortal by Gillian Shields
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Available August 11 – August 17
Storm Runners by Roland Smith
The Cay by Theodore Taylor