This week’s free audiobooks from SYNC bring us 9-year-olds faced with violence and hard choices, on opposite sides of the world.
Download either or both titles by Wednesday (5/16/18), then listen to your selection any time you like, using the free Overdrive app.
Bookmark the SYNC site now so you can download great audiobooks all summer long: http://www.audiobooksync.com/
Johnny, Get Your Gun (free download 5/10-16/18)
by John Ball
Read by Dion Graham
Published by Brilliance Publishing
Fight the school bully? A 9 year old boy with a gun sparks violence in his impoverished LA neighborhood as racial tensions flare during the 1960s.
On Two Feet and Wings (free download 5/10-16/18)
by Abbas Kazerooni
Read by Abbas Kazerooni
Published by Brilliance Publishing
Abbas can become a soldier at age 9 in the Iran-Iraq War or escape to Turkey without money, family, or friends! Autobiography narrated by the author.
Other stories of young kids prevailing in terrible times?
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