{"id":12128,"date":"2021-06-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12128"},"modified":"2021-06-29T09:05:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:05:54","slug":"pride-and-identity-audiobooks-bring-stories-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12128","title":{"rendered":"Pride and identity – audiobooks bring stories to life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Quick, quick! Put these outstanding free audiobooks from SYNC<\/a> on your Sora shelf right now, before the selection changes on Wednesday night (30 June 2021)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once they’re saved on your free Sora shelf (FAQs here), you have 99 years (yes, really) to read them with your ears! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sasha Masha<\/strong><\/em> (free download 24-30 June 2021 on Sora)
by Agnes Borinsky<\/a>
read by Agnes Borinsky
published by Tantor Media<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex struggles with their identity, trying to live up to expectations of being a boy in Baltimore. A photo sent by faraway best friend revives suppressed memories, leading Alex to find a supportive social club for queer youth amid awkward interactions at home and school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read by the transgender author who invites us on Alex’s journey of personal truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stay Gold<\/strong><\/em> (free download 24-30 June 2021 on Sora)
by Tobly McSmith<\/a>
Read by Theo Germaine, Phoebe Strole
Published by Harper Audio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At his new Texas high school, Pony isn’t announcing that he’s transgender, just wanting to make some friends, including cute cheerleader Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia just wants to finish high school and get over a bad breakup, not expecting to fall for Pony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What other affirming stories would you recommend for Pride Month and all year long?
**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quick, quick! Put these outstanding free audiobooks from SYNC on your Sora shelf right now, before the selection changes on Wednesday night (30 June 2021)! Once they’re saved on your free Sora shelf (FAQs here), you have 99 years (yes, really) to read them with your ears! Sasha Masha (free download 24-30 June 2021 on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[127,22,4,11,5,16,18,44,43,187,39,295,49,15,9,21,35,3,173,6,8],"class_list":["post-12128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-audiobooks","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-lgbtq","tag-love","tag-maryland","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-texas","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12205,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128\/revisions\/12205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}