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SYNC Audiobooks for teens is offering 2 audiobooks every week from April 27-August 16. You can set up text reminders so you don’t miss out. The audiobooks are your to keep but they are only available during their week.
Go to http://www.audiobooksync.com/ or TEXT “syncya” to 25827 to set up your alerts and check out all the titles!

This week they are the same book! You can read the actual book, read it online through Overdrive, or listen to the audiobook through Overdrive. Any way you experience it, the story will take you into the world of Steam Punk.
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger (click on the title to preview the book)

It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time, welcome to finishing school. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminnick is a great trial to her poor mother-her atrocious curtsy is an embarrassment to the pfamily name. So Mrs. Temminnick enrolls her daughter in Mademoiselle Geraldine’s FinishingAcademy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine’s, young ladies certainly learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage-in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year’s education. Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series debut is filled with all the same saucy adventure and droll humor Gail Carriger’s legions of fans have come to adore.

The BFG by Roald Dahl (Click on title to preview the book)

Captured by a giant!The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!

50 Cent (Click on title to preview the book)

Explores the life of the rap artist, covering his youth as a drug dealer, arrest, interest in the music business, and successful career as a rapper, and discusses how the birth of his son changed his life.

Extreme Parkour by Virginia Loh-Hagan (click on title to preview the book)

Extreme Parkour presents the thrills and spills of this intriguing extreme sport.

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent’s only gift seems to be that she makes other people’s talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own–and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.

 

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill–an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.

Dear Bully by Megan Kelley Hall and others (click the title to preview the book)
Presents top authors for teens as they share their stories about bullying–as silent observers on the sidelines of high school, as victims, and as perpetrators.

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

A stunning young adult novel by Rodman Philbrick that tells the heartwrenching story of two “special ed” boys who pair up to form a unique and empowering friendship. Two boys a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg braces forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force. Made into the film, The Mighty.

Pax by Sara Pennypacker (click on title to preview the book)

“After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back”