The Joy of Children's Literature

2 Free Audiobook Downloads Each Week from Listening Library    Listening Library is proud to team up with AudioFile Magazine to support SYNC. Beginning this month, SYNC offers FREE audiobook downloads of Young Adult audiobooks and Summer Reading Classics! Watch for Listening Library's IRISES by Francisco X. Stork available June 21 – June 27 and THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND by Jonathan Stroud available June 28 – July 4. To find out when you can download titles to listen to on the run this summer, visit www.AudiobookSync. or text syncya to 25827.

NPR BOOKS CONFESSES LOVE FOR “TEEN” READS “SUMMER BOOKS” SERIES COMES-OF-AGE WITH YOUNG ADULT FOCUS, YA AUTHORS REVEAL FORMATIVE LITERARY INSPIRATIONS NPRBOOKS.ORG FEATURES ANNUAL “SUMMER BOOKS” ROUND-UPS FROM NPR FAVORITES May 30, 2012; Washington, D.C. – A good novel doesn ’ t just transcend the boundaries of its target market – it knows nothing about target markets. NPR Books takes this to heart with the launch of its annual Summer Books package, focusing this year’s theme on the coming-of-age stories that open our eyes to a world beyond childhood and stick for a lifetime. NPR Books will spotlight Young Adult literature with a new series and its annual listeners’ poll in addition to round-ups of critics’ picks and exclusive excerpts from this season’s most anticipated reads. The centerpiece of Summer Books is “ PG-13: Risky Reads ,” a new series exploring the ageless themes and no-holds barred style that makes the Young Adult genre eternally inspiring. In f...