Get Ready for SYNC 2022!

SYNC returns April 2022! Keep an eye on SYNC for announcements about the complete 2022 title lineup and a complete toolkit. And for the latest reviews of new audiobooks for teens, visit AudioFile.
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VOICES: MAKING THE MAGIC
Dan Bittner shares his experience narrating HONESTLY BEN, an Earphones Award winner and one of our 2022 SYNC titles. Bill Konigsberg’s novel is a complex portrait of Ben, a scholarship student and baseball team captain at an elite East-coast boarding school. Ben is confused about his sexuality, namely his feelings for his ex-best friend, Rafe, and a cute girl at the neighboring school. Watch the video.
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Robin Miles narrates the eerie journey of a traveling carnival in the Depression-era South. Eliza has the ability to communicate with animals. When an alligator wrestling match goes awry, she steps in to prevent disaster. Afterward, the owner invites her to join the carnival, and she's eager to go, not knowing that evil resides within it in the form of an ancient demon who is hungry for souls. Miles's performance is the perfect vehicle for this powerful story of a young woman’s search for her destiny.
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Ron Butler narrates this tale of time travel and romance. Because of the time jumps, Butler has to make the characters sound specific to a time and place. Listeners will have no trouble discerning who is from 2021 and who is from the past. And when Butler narrates the internal monologue of the protagonist, Andre, he shows off his full vocal range. A compelling, honest, and sometimes heartbreaking listen. 
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The lucid and accessible discussion of the connection between fascism and lying made by Argentine historian Federico Finchelstein comes to listeners through the equally clear and agile narration of Edoardo Ballerini. The audiobook calls upon Ballerini to demonstrate his ease with a broad range of languages to smoothly pronounce names and terms. His pacing, and the author’s writing, prevent any sense of drag, making this short audiobook rigorous enough to engage politically educated listeners. 
Frankie Corzo's delivery is beautifully suited to Stork's spirited narrator and strong characters in this story of loss, hope, and fighting for yourself in trying times. After Vicky Cruz attempts to end her life, she finds herself in the Mental Disorders Ward of Lakeview Hospital. Electing to stay and seek treatment, Vicky soon meets people who accept her as she is, and finds a strength and determination she hadn't thought possible.
Left for dead, with only snatches of memory, Calexa moves into a suburban cemetery crypt — the only place she feels safe while unraveling the mystery of her attempted murder. From the gentle pattering of rain on freshly dug soil to the blaring sirens of police cars, no sound is missing from this shadowy opening to a graveyard trilogy. To facilitate adaptation from graphic novel to audiobook, Calexa recounts the action, and the listener is privy to her innermost forebodings.  
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