New Playaway titles available!

We've got some new audiobooks in the teen section this week, in the form of Playaway! Playaways are cool because instead of a box with like, 5 or 8 CDs, you just have this little MP3 player to carry around. Handy!  Here's the new titles:

FICTION

• Playground by 50 Cent, read by 50 Cent and Dwayne Clark
• Football Genius by Tim Green, ready by Tim Green and a full cast
• W.A.R.P. The Reluctant Assassin (Book 1) by Eoin Colfer, read by Maxwell Caulfield
• The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson, read by Michael Kramer
• Icons by Margaret Stohl
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, read by Khristine Hvam
• Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card, performed by Scott Brick, Kirby Heyborne, Don Leslie, Stefan Rudnicki, Kristoffer Tabori
• Ruins by Orson Scott Card, performed by Stefan Rudnicki, Kirby Keyborne and Emily Janice Card
• A Midsummer Night's Scream by R.L. Stine, read by Brittany Pressley
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, read by Raul Esparza

Does anyone have any favorite audiobooks? Comment below with your favs! (my favorite is probably Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, read by Wil Weaton!)

edit: Another six audiobooks came in after I posted this, so I added them to the list.

Playaways: Books for Your Ears!

We have purchased a growing number of Playaways for the teen and J sections this year, but you may not even know what they are! Playaways are audio books that come pre-loaded on mp3 players. You just plug in your headphones and go! They are way more portable than books on tape or CD. Some libraries charge to borrow Playaways, but the Upper Darby Libraries do not. You can borrow them for three weeks and renew them twice, just like books.

Here are the Playaways that we own in the teen section:

• The Six Rules of Maybe by Deb Caletti
• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (NEW!)
• The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (NEW!)
• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
• Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (NEW!)
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Dunk by David Lubar
• Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
• Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer (NEW!)
• Flocabulary: The Hip-Hop Approach to SAT-Level Vocabulary Building by Blake Harrison