FREE: “Beyond Magenta” and “Loveless”

It’s already week nine of AudioFile’s Sync summer program. I just wanted to add a reminder today because Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out is free through this coming Wednesday, June 28. This is one of the books that is a target of the current book banning movement.

At the time we purchased Beyond Magenta for our library, we had a young adult teacher’s aide who was transitioning genders. The students had questions, and this was one of the books that had lots of voices giving answers.

Download for free by signing up for the summer program at https://audiobookSYNC.com . Have a listen for yourself. Grab Loveless for free as well. After that, you’ll get notification for each of the remaining weeks of the fourteen week program.

Poster advertising the AudioFile Sync audiobooks for teens program. Includes text "Celebrate the Rainbow Spectrum" and book cover images for "Loveless" (three teens in a crowd) and "Beyond Magenta" (teen wearing a pink dress shirt with a bow tie and jeans).

About Victoria Waddle

Victoria Waddle is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and has been included in Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest. Her books include a collection of feminist short fiction, Acts of Contrition, and a chapbook on grief, The Mortality of Dogs and Humans. Her YA novel about a polygamist cult, Keep Sweet, launches in June 2025. Formerly the managing editor of the journal Inlandia: A Literary Journey and a teacher librarian, she contributes to the Southern California News Group column Literary Journeys. She discusses both writing and library book censorship on her Substack, “Be a Cactus.” Join her there for thoughts on defiant readers and writers as well as for weekly library censorship news.

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