This summer, SYNC will be providing two free teen audiobooks each week from May 5th to August 11th. Each week will focus on a specific theme, pairing a classic YA title with a more modern YA title. This week starts Thursday, June 30th with The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Readers Edition by Michael Pollan and Grasshopper Jungle by […]
The Help by Kathryn Stockett takes place in Jackson, Mississippi in 1692. The main focus of the book is to expose the injustice and discrimination that maids, or “the help,” have to deal with every day when they work for white women. The story is told from three different points of view. The first point of view comes from Skeeter, […]
We have even more new realistic fiction for you to read this summer: A Hundred Hours of Night by Anna WoltzNew York steals Emilia’s heart at first sight — even though absolutely nothing goes to plan. She didn’t plan to end up homeless on a stranger’s doorstep. She didn’t plan to make friends with Seth, Abby, and Jim. And she could […]
The entire book of Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher takes place throughout the course of one day. The main character, Clay, receives a package with thirteen cassette tapes inside. The tapes are from Hannah, a girl that committed suicide at Clay’s school. Each tape explains a reason why she decided to end her life, and there is a list of people […]
This summer, SYNC will be providing two free teen audiobooks each week from May 5th to August 11th. Each week will focus on a specific theme, pairing a classic YA title with a more modern YA title. This week starts Thursday, June 23rd with Donny’s Brain by by Rona Munro and Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan. These two titles […]
A Game of Thrones is a book that has a lot of different things going on at once. It takes place in a time where the warm years of summer are ending and a harsh, cold winter is coming. There are unknown creatures causing destruction outside the northern walls of the kingdom, and no one knows how to stop them. […]
Looking for some stories about love, heartbreak, and romance this summer? We have some great new books for you: Love, Lies and Spies by Cindy AnsteyIn the early 1800s, when her father sends her to London for a season, eighteen-year-old Juliana Telford, who prefers researching ladybugs to marriage, meets handsome Spencer Northam, a spy posing as a young gentleman of leisure.
This summer, SYNC will be providing two free teen audiobooks each week from May 5th to August 11th. Each week will focus on a specific theme, pairing a classic YA title with a more modern YA title. This week starts Thursday, June 16th with How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James […]
See what’s new in Speculative Fiction: Dreamology by Lucy KeatingExperiencing dreams about her soulmate all of her life, Alice meets the real boy, Max, when she moves to a new school and finds that their real relationship is more complicated than their dream one. A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha MabrySpending the summer with his hotel-developer father in Puerto […]
My book review is over the Divergent Series by Veronica Roth. All the books in the series are jam-packed with intense action scenes. Also there are four books in the series: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegient, and Four. In all books there is a faction system where there are five groups: Amity, Candor, Dauntless, Abnegation, and Erudite. If people end up not fitting […]
