If you're a librarian in a public or school setting, whether or not your library subscribes to OverDrive, be sure your community understands how to update apps in general and why it's a necessary housekeeping task.  The OverDrive app is, of course free; however, any app you have obtained legally includes access to its latest updates for free.  You don't have to acquire it again, just update it, the way you make sure that you've checked for the latest weather news instead of assuming last summer's forecast remains in effect.

We end this fine SYNC summer with two World War II stories which demonstrate how important the roles of both author and narrator are to listening and and literary appreciation.

The Civil War experiences of a New England family make for another easily matched pair from SYNC this week.

We are off on adventures this week with SYNC, so take your free downloaded audiobooks on the road for great listening this week!

Gather a posse of young men and get them listening this week! We've got a pair of titles--and author narrators--sure to evoke big time interest.

This week Mother Nature and the audiobook narrators Henry Leyva and Richard Davidson take us into dangers at sea and have us right where they want us--wrapped right up in the challenges faced by these books' protagonists.

AudioFile editors get to listen to new audiobooks all year long, and as we listen, we often note special recordings that would make excellent additions to SYNC. We also review the many reading lists, published by schools and public libraries, with their suggestions of titles teens would enjoy. By noticing shared themes between these two sources we discovered this week's likely pair.

Victorian London offers a rich setting for all kinds of stories. It takes skillful writing to create singular characters as riveting as that time and place, and accomplished performers to give those characters the voices they deserve.

The SYNC: YA Literature Into Your Earbuds program, sponsored by AudioFile Magazine and powered by OverDrive, kicks off its sixth year with an exciting lineup that includes bestselling authors such as Walter Dean Myers, Louisa May Alcott, Terry Pratchett and Melissa de la Cruz.

Buddha Boy from Full Cast Audio!