Free YA Audiobooks for the summer!

In an effort to develop the listening audience of YA books a program named SYNC was developed.

SYNC is offering two completely free digital audiobooks (a current Young Adult title paired thematically with a Classic or typically assigned Summer reading title EACH WEEK during the summer)

You can text syncya to 25827 to receive text alerts on the titles as they become available.

Download Details
• Downloads are in MP3 format, hosted by OverDrive, and are Mac and Windows compatible.

• Downloads will operate through OverDrive’s Media Console.

• Most listening devices are supported. Check here for the full list.

• Starting June 23, each SYNC audiobook will be available for download for a period of 7 days (only). Go to the SYNC group on Audiobook Community to get the download links for each title within the seven-day period.

SYNC Titles – 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