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Thursday, July 12, 2018
Our 12th week of AudiobookSYNC 2018 brings us a pair of novels with distinctly Puritan Colonial roots. Thanks to Listening Library for providing them.
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Thursday, July 5, 2018
This week’s pair of audiobooks gives listeners excellent opportunities to challenge themselves to see beyond assumptions that some girls just can’t be worth meeting.
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Thursday, June 28, 2018
This week we’ve paired a classic most high school students will encounter before graduation with a contemporary gothic novel that offers a good introduction to the genre.
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Thursday, June 21, 2018
We’re celebrating Pride Week this year with a teen novel and a stage play. Be sure to catch both of them!
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Thursday, June 14, 2018
The Juneteenth holiday is just the right time for the pair of audiobooks we offer this week. The last day to download the pair is Juneteenth itself, so you have seven days to be sure you have them, and even have time to get some listening done to give the date more meaning in your own life. The occasion of Juneteenth, dating from 1865, is a good time to celebrate both freedom and equal rights.
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Thursday, June 7, 2018
Most people would prefer to explain themselves than to have judgment fall on them based on other people’s views. How often do we pause in our lives, however, to consider whether our own judgments of others might be unfair?
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Thursday, May 31, 2018
Both of the audiobooks you can download during this Week 6 of our 2018 program have won AudioFile Magazine’s Earphones Award for excellence. Listeners will be quick to understand why as they settle into these stellar teen novels.
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Thursday, May 24, 2018
Here we are at Week 5 of SYNC’s ninth season! How’s all the listening going where you are? We’d love to see you share your responses and pictures, too, on any of the social channels we follow (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr, too).
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Thursday, May 17, 2018
In Week 4, both titles in our audiobook pair are brought to us courtesy of Listening Library. Both feature strong girls who meet challenges to their self assurance with a balance of standing up for themselves and accepting the support of those who wish them well.
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Thursday, May 10, 2018
For Week 3 of SYNC 2018, we’re offering a pair of audiobooks in which boys are running for their lives. Some teen listeners will identify with one or another of these young people while others, through listening, can discover empathy for circumstances in which they have never found themselves.
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Thursday, May 3, 2018
Welcome to Week 2 of our 2018 SYNC season! This week’s pair of audiobooks includes a nonfiction and author-narrated book that will take you places you might find beyond imagination, and a novel, also performed by the author, about which we’re sure you’ve heard friends enthusing.
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Thursday, April 26, 2018
Week 1 of our 2018 season is here! Both titles of our first week’s audiobook pair offer fiction rooted in history with which teens are familiar and arrive with author and narrator names many will recognize. What better way to introduce the new season?
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Thursday, April 19, 2018
The 9th season of SYNC and free audiobooks for teens opens in just one week! Have you put all your local teens onto the news that 26 audiobooks can be theirs for free and to keep as the summer unfolds?
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Did you know you can download many of 2018's free SYNC audiobooks anywhere in the world? AudioFile Magazine works with both large and small audiobook publishers each SYNC season to acquire a summer's worth of audiobooks for teens and international rights vary from title to title. This year, however, comes with a listening bounty for international listeners.
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Thursday, April 5, 2018
As you have discovered, the Toolkit page on the AudiobookSYNC site is a goldmine of ready-made posters (both for walls and for your website), banners, press release information, and more. We have some great tools for promotion beyond the Toolkit as well.
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Thursday, March 29, 2018
SYNC's partner OverDrive provides the technology for our summer program. Understanding how to make the best use of OverDrive is important to successful downloading of 2018's 26 free audiobooks.
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Thursday, March 22, 2018
As AudiobookSYNC heads toward its 9th season, more and more teachers, librarians, and parents have discovered its benefits to the teens with whom they work and live. We know, however, that finding support for any new program can require supplying data and testimonials to administrators unfamiliar with the reasons why something--even a free something--might be helpful.
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Thursday, March 15, 2018
Listening Library has donated several titles to our free audiobook program this year. Thank you!
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Thursday, March 8, 2018
With so many audiobooks available from SYNC, listeners are bound to discover a genre new to each of them.
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Thursday, March 1, 2018
We have LOTS of news this week so hang on to your tea cup and get ready for AudiobookSYNC 2018!
