SYNC YA Literature into Your Earphones 16 FREE Audio Books

2 Free Audiobook Downloads Each Week

June 23 - August 17, 2011

Teens and other readers of Young Adult Literature will have the opportunity to listen to bestselling titles and required reading classics this summer.   Each week  from June 23 - August 17, 2011, SYNC will offer two free audiobook downloads.

The audiobook pairings will include a popular YA title and a classic that connects with the YA title's theme and is likely to show up on a student's summer reading lists.  For example, Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, the first book in a popular series with strong allusions to Romeo & Juliet, will be paired with Shakespeare's classic.

To find out when you can download titles to listen to on the run this summer, visit www.AudiobookSync.com or text syncya to 25827

SYNC Titles

Summer 2011

6/23/11 - 6/29/11

Shiver By Maggie Stiefvater

Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

6/30/11-7/6/11          

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

The Trial by Franz Kafka

7/7/11-7/13/11

Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

7/14/11-7/20/11       

The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney

Beowulf by Francis B. Gummere [Trans.]

7/21/11-7/27/11

Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

7/28/11-8/3/11

Ashes, Ashes  by Jo Treggiari

Rescue: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea by Dorcas S. Miller [Ed.]          

           

8/4/11-8/10/11          

Immortal by Gillian Shields

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

8/11/11-8/17/11                   

Storm Runners by Roland Smith

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

One Week Till the 48 Hour Book Challenge!

 

Who is  joining me for the 48 hour book challenge?  Here are the rules again.  MotherReader  says give it your best try.  12 hours makes you eligible  to win prizes, so I think I will start there!  Good Luck!

Free Audio book

Tantor Audio is giving away H.G. Wells’ classic until May 31st. Just visit the website here to download an MP3 of this 4-hour Steampunk original, first published in 1895 – narrated by one of the audiobook community’s best talents.  You’ll need to create a Tantor account, but no other personal info is needed. Grab this now for a great summertime-travel family-listening title!

It is worth it to create an account.  Last summer they offered 10 free audiobooks.  5 new "classics" paired with 5 similar classics.  I hope they do it this summer too!!

Teaser Tuesday comes to you from: MizB from the blog Should be Reading
TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Please avoid spoilers!

I have just begun  Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddax.

Mrs. Livingston states off into the distance, off into the past, off into a time when she didn't know the fire was comong.  " The story begins like so much else," she says slowly.  "With hope.  Hope and dreams and daring..."