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This year’s YA Sync kicks off on April 28th with Black Panther Tales of Wakanda and four short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In case you aren’t familiar with the program, this is a collaboration between Audiofile Magazine and Overdrive. Each week on Thursday a two new audio books are offered for download. While …
This is your chance to get free audiobooks selected for teen audiences during the summer. Each week for 13 weeks 2 audiobooks with a common theme are offered. The books are available for a week and the offerings change on Thursday nights. While the books are only available for a week, once you download them …
It is that time again. The 2019 Audiobook Sync program for teens has started. Sync is a teen audiobook literacy program that runs each summer. Each week two complete audiobooks are available for free download. Be sure to check each week to download the titles you’d like to listen to as they are only available …
Cindy has hooked me on audiobooks and every summer we tune into Sync Audiobooks for Teens for a season of Young Adult picks. The books are chosen for a teen audience, but we’ve found many that we enjoy. It works like this: each week during the summer two audiobooks are posted. You provide your name …
I would have enjoyed and learned so much more from my middle school and high school social studies and history classes if they had been centered on books. And I don’t mean textbooks! Even though my school years are long behind me, I find that I am learning more than ever by reading books that …
YA Sync is a free summer audiobook program that starts next week on April 27th. Each week, for 16 weeks, two different audiobooks are available for download. The program is geared towards teens, but anyone can download the weekly audiobooks. The books are only available for one week. After that week then the next two …
Life can be difficult. When a person is facing situations they have no control over with no chance to change or improve things sometimes humor is the only way to stay sane and carry on. Here are three excellent books that use humor and comedy to address tough subjects:
Good coming-of-age stories can be powerful and life-changing for readers of all ages. Traditionally, coming-of-age stories feature teens facing hardships that help them mature and become adults. Nowadays this genre can refer to any book where the protagonist matures and learns some important life lessons by overcoming major obstacles in their life, no matter their …
Get ready, lovers of Young Adult books! The 2017 Hub Reading Challenge is here! What is the Hub Challenge, you ask? The Hub is the blog for YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association), a division of the American Library Association. Every winter they sponsor a reading challenge featuring an amazing variety of award-winning young adult …
Book reviews serve two purposes for me: first, to help me find a book to read and second, to gain additional perspectives on a book I’ve already read. We live in an amazing time and country where thousands of new book titles are published every week. Since there are far more books I’d like to read …
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I have always loved books. When I was in elementary school my weekly $2.25 allowance was enough to buy a Hardy Boys book and a Hersey Bar with Almonds. I would start my Saturday afternoon by reading Frank and Joe’s latest adventure. I was pretty far through the series when one year for Christmas I …