Every Shiny Thing by Cordelia Jensen & Laurie Morrison Seventh-grader Lauren begins stealing to help children who, like her brother Ryan, are on the autism spectrum. When Lauren recruits Sierra, in foster care in Lauren’s neighborhood, Sienna knows she has more to lose than her friend. Enabling Lauren’s lawbreaking could cost Sierra everything.
Relative Strangers by Paula Garner Eighteen-year-old Jules has always wished for a close-knit family. She never knew her father, and her ex-addict mother has always seemed more interested in artistic endeavors than in bonding with her only daughter. Jules’s life and future look as flat and unchanging as her small Illinois town. Then a simple quest to find a baby […]
All Out of Pretty by Ingrid Palmer For sixteen-year-old Andrea, beauty and friendships are a liability and academic achievement is the key to her future, but survival becomes paramount after her addict mother claims custody and puts them at the mercy of her drug dealer boyfriend.
This summer, SYNC will be providing two free teen audiobooks each week from April 26th to July 25th. Each week will focus on a specific theme, pairing a classic YA title with a more modern YA title. These two titles will be available to download for free this week only (from 7/19 to 7/25) at the SYNC website. The thirteenth week […]
Summer of Broken Things by Margaret Peterson Haddix Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted and sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts, once good friends, begrudgingly travel to Spain together for a summer vacation where they uncover a secret their families kept hidden from them their entire lives.
Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian (Ash Princess #1) Held captive by the brutal Kaiser since age six when she witnessed her mother’s murder, Theodosia, called Ash Princess, is now sixteen and prepared to reclaim the throne by any means necessary.
Flight by Jae Waller (Call of the Rift #1) Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn’t want to be Rin anymore–not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her only way out is to join another tribe, which means a one-way trek through the coastal rainforest. Killing a colonial soldier in the woods isn’t part of the plan. Neither is spending the […]
Beyond a Darkened Shore by Jessica Leake Princess Ciara of Mide, who has the ability to control others’ minds and actions, has been using her powers to protect her people from the plundering Northmen, but when she captures Lief, a young Northman leader, she learns she is not the only one to harness this power.
Isle of Blood and Stone by Makiia Lucier (Isle of Blood and Stone #1) When two maps surface, each bearing the same hidden riddle, nineteen-year-old Elias, a royal mapmaker, sets sail with King Ulises to uncover long-held secrets behind the mysterious disappearance of the king’s two young brothers eighteen years earlier.
Diminished by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson (Diminished #1) A rare few are singleborn in each generation, and therefore given the right to rule by the gods and goddesses. Bo Trousillion is one of these few, born into the royal line and destined to rule. Though he has been chosen to succeed his great-aunt, Queen Runa, as the leader of the Alskad […]
