For Pride Month, AudioSYNC brings us real-life and fictional accounts of teens across the rainbow of gender and sexuality.
You have until Wednesday 28 June 2023 to download either or both of these professionally produced audiobooks into your Sora shelf. Get all the details here.
The Audiofile review page for each audiobook include a link to their podcast discussion of the book!
Get ready to read with your ears!
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out (free Sora download 6/22-6/28/23)
by Susan Kuklin | Read by Tanya Eby, Nick Podehl, Todd Haberkorn, Roxanne Hernandez, Janina Edwards, Nancy Wu, Marisol Ramirez
Published by Brilliance Audio/Candlewick
Two trans feminine, two trans masculine, and two nonbinary young people spoke candidly with Susan Kuklin about their struggles to be accepted.
These real interview transcripts of gender non-conforming teens also include some family members; all narrated by professional voice actors with emotion and empathy.
Loveless (free Sora download 6/22-6/28/23)
by Alice Oseman | Read by Billie Fulford-Brown, Elizabeth Schenk, Imogen Church
Published by Scholastic Audiobooks
Surely her first year of college will be when Georgia finally has a crush, gets kissed, falls in love…right?
New friends and old help the British teen find her true self and claim her identity as asexual/aromantic.
I recommended Loveless here on BooksYALove.
What’s your favorite story with gender-nonconforming characters?
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