What an honor and privilege to be sharing this summer reading resource with you another year! SYNC is a FREE summer audiobook program for Young Adults. Each week, beginning on May 15th and continuing to August 13th, SYNC gives away two complete audiobook downloads – a current young adult title along with a thematically paired classic or required summer reading title. Kicking off the program is Warp: The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer and H.G. Wells classic The Time Machine available for download TOMORROW!
from SYNC:
Warp: The Reluctanta Assasin by Eoin Colfer Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims’ dwellings. On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI’s Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP). Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day London, followed closely by Garrick.
In modern London, Riley is helped by Chevron Savano, a nineteen-year-old FBI agent sent to London as punishment after a disastrous undercover, anti-terrorist operation in Los Angeles. Together Riley and Chevie must evade Garrick, who has been fundamentally altered by his trip through the wormhole. Garrick is now not only evil, but he also possesses all of the scientist’s knowledge. He is determined to track Riley down and use the timekey in Chevie’s possession to make his way back to Victorian London where he can literally change the world.
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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700–and everything had changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings–unearth their secret and then retum to his own time–until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen.
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The free mp3 downloads are available for listening using OverDrive Media Console. OverDrive is a FREE resource and available for most devices. So what are you waiting for?!? Jump over to SYNC sign up for the email updates or TEXT 25827 for a weekly reminder of available downloads.
There’s a few I’m eagerly anticipating – The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie {I’m on an Agatha Christie kick lately!}; Code Name Verity {recent World Book Night book!}; and Anne of Green Gables {an absolute fave of mine}! There’s many more fantastic selections that you’re sure to find amazing. Visit the lineup here. And tell every young adult you know about this FREE resource!
