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Patchogue Medford Library Young Adult Department

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Audiobooks add to the story!

Have you checked out our great selection of Young Adult audiobooks lately? Books are available for download to your MP3 player, or on Playaway, CD or cassette.

Hearing a story can help pass a long car trip, or help you catch up with reading while you exercise or travel back and forth to school.

In addition, often audiobooks are more than just the written word. The reader or readers will have the accent of the country or region the book is set in. The pronunciation of unusual or foreign words is there for you.

And even better - sometimes there are sound effects that add to the story. Some examples:

Feed by M.T. Anderson - you hear the "feed" inputs directly to the teenagers' brains.

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar - nursery music is played when Scott talks to his unborn sibling, Smelly.

The New Policeman by Kate Thompson features a piece of tradition Irish music highlighting each chapter.

Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going and Born to Rock by Gordon Korman feature pieces of music appropriate to the stories.

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