Summer Reading Ideas: Free eBooks & Audio Books

Summer time is here which means endless hours with books of YOUR choice. Check out the following reading lists to find your soon-to-be favorite books of this summer.

2013 Texas Lone Star Reading List

2013-2014 Mansfield ISD Battle of the Books Reading List

YALSA Best of the Best 

And if you are too hot to go outside, why not stay in and read or listen to some awesome books from the following websites on your mobile device. Email Mrs. Smith if you need help logging on.

Free Audio Books From SYNC YA: 

Free eBooks From Jobe Library

The New 2013-2014 Battle of the Books List

Are you thinking about joining Battle of the Books this fall?
 The titles on the new list will make great summer reads!

Grades 7 and 8

Title	Author	Publisher
Elephant Scientist	Caitlin O'Connell	Houghton Mifflin
Notorious Benedict Arnold	Steve Sheinkin	Square Fish
Pull of Gravity	Gae Polisner	Square Fish
Jefferson's Sons	Kimberly Brubaker Bradley	Puffin
Lions of Little Rock	Kristin Levine	Puffin
Breadcrumbs	Anne Ursu	Walden Pond
Ninth Ward	Jewell Parker Rhodes	Little, Brown
Apothecary	Maile Meloy	Puffin
Dead End in Norvelt	Jack Gantos	Square Fish
Bruiser	Neal Schusterman	Harper Teen

Free audio books from SYNC is back!

"SYNC offers free Young Adult & Classic audiobook downloads in the summer months to introduce the listening experience.

SYNC is a program that gives away two complete audiobook downloads–a current Young Adult title paired thematically with a Classic or Required Summer Reading title–each week to listeners ages 13+ while SYNC is in session.

SYNC is in session this year from May 30 – August 21, 2013.

Titles are delivered through the OverDrive Media Console.  You can prepare for the program by downloading the software to your desktop and whichever device you anticipate listening on.

 How Do I Sign-up?

Go to http://www.audiobooksync.com/

Go to the right column and sign-up to get notifications of when the FREE audiobook downloads are available.  You can alerts by text message, email newsletter, or by simply following the SYNC blog.

Signing up for these alerts will not send you the titles.  The alerts will simply tell you when and where the title is available to download."

http://www.audiobooksync.com/