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November 1, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

November Audio Book of the Month Giveaway from Books on Tape/Listening Library: Man Made Boy by Jon Skovron

November 1, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS   17 comments

This month we are kicking off a new monthly giveaway brought to you by Random House Books on Tape and Listening Library.  Each month you will have the chance to enter and win a new MG or YA audio book – because audio books are cool. 

Here are 5 times it is great to listen to an audio book:
1. When driving in the car.
2. When you are cleaning your room (or your house, or your car).
3. While exercising.
4. When cooking.  I mean, I hear some people do that.  Cook that is.
5. When you have a struggling reader, have them listen to the book and read along.

This month’s selection is MAN MADE BOY by Jon Skovron, read by the author.

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Boy is the son Frankenstein and his Bride, but he is also just like any teenage boy – into technology, in love with a girl who may or may not love him back, and bullied by a centaur for being different.  Wait, perhaps that last part isn’t just like every other teen.  Because the world is not friendly to monsters, his family hides with other magical and mythical creatures like him by taking part in a Broadway show.  The audience doesn’t know that the acts they are seeing are real.  Boy is an expert hacker, and when he creates a sentient virus, who names herself VI, he finds himself on the run with the daughter of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – two girls in one body.  She’s on the run from her maniacal brother, who thinks he can get rid of the Hyde half of his sister, who doesn’t really want to go.  Along the way they meet a variety of magical and mythical creatures – and a ton of hijacked humans that VI is downloading herself into via cell phone technology to try and reach out to her creator.  It’s a road trip like no other.

This was a very interesting story that combined stories of old with a modern day world.  There are undertones and themes of modern day that teens will relate to: bullying, identity, falling in and out of love, rebelling against parents, technology, and even the ethics of science in some great discussions of creator responsibilities.  It was so fun to see which character would show up next and how they would be given a modern day twist.  It’s a combination of Hotel Transylvania updated for teens with great techno twists (and mature teen language).  The author did a really good job of giving each character a distinct voice. 

So here’s how you can enter to win:

1.  The contest will run each month, the first day of the month until the last.

2. You can enter via the Rafflecopter in multiple ways.  One way includes leaving a blog comment so tell us: 1) What’s your favorite time, place or way to listen to audio books? and/or 2) What monster would you like to see pop up in Man Made Boy?

3.  The contest is open to residents of the U.S. 

4.  Rafflecopter will pick a winner, I will email that winner to get their address, and Random House Books on Tape/Listening Library will email the winner’s audio book out to them.

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Filed under: Audio Book of the Month Giveaway, Audio Books, Books on Tape, Jon Skovron, Listening Library, Man Made Boy, Random House

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About Karen Jensen, MLS

Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 30 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).

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  1. booksnquilts says

    November 1, 2013 at 1:02 pm

    Favorite time to listen to audio books: while driving. A close second is while quilting.

  2. Betsy Powell says

    November 1, 2013 at 1:56 pm

    1) What's your favorite time, place or way to listen to audio books? Driving on long trips (or short ones!) Otherwise, when I have to walk/exercise (except now I use a pool =( )

    2) What monster would you like to see pop up in Man Made Boy? I hear la Llorona is in it and I'm really interested to see how she's used.

  3. Anonymous says

    November 1, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    To and from work is when I listen to audio books. I find them very relaxing. Long road trips seem shorter when you are listening to an audio book. I would like to see a vampire used. My students are very interested in anything related to a vampire.

  4. Jessica says

    November 1, 2013 at 3:53 pm

    I love to listen to audio books while driving. I drive for around an hour and a half each day so I get a lot of listening in!

  5. Tammy says

    November 1, 2013 at 4:55 pm

    I always have an audiobook I'm listening to while I drive or when walking around Walmart grocery shopping. Currently it's A Sword Of Storms, on disc 24 🙂

  6. Bridget says

    November 1, 2013 at 5:01 pm

    Another driver who listens to audiobooks over here! Doubles my intake of books, and therefore helps make a dent in my endless TBR pile.

  7. Jess Arnold says

    November 1, 2013 at 8:56 pm

    Favorite time to listen to books – on my commute back and forth to the library every day!
    As far as monsters go… i love seeing cerberus pop up in different arenas.

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  9. Elizabeth says

    November 2, 2013 at 4:09 pm

    Always listening to audiobooks in the car! Thanks for the giveaway!

  10. Christine Pacuk says

    November 2, 2013 at 4:20 pm

    I listen to audiobooks while sewing and cooking! Thanks for the opportunity 🙂

  11. Wonder Twins says

    November 3, 2013 at 2:44 am

    I love, love, love, love, love to listen to audiobooks whenever I can, in the car, while cooking or exercising or gardening or waiting in line. I listen when I'm brushing my teeth, cleaning the bathroom (admittedly, this doesn't happen a whole lot), knitting, and walking my increasingly lame dog. Audiobooks are the best! Monsters are good, too. And zombies. Maybe Boy could meet up with a new kind of zombie, one who is working to control his cravings with an all carb, no meat diet. Just a thought.

  12. Lisa Rose says

    November 4, 2013 at 2:54 pm

    I listen to audiobooks in the car…makes my 45 minute commute fly by. Not sure about the monster…werewolves are always unpredictable.

  13. Unknown says

    November 4, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    Driving. Cleaning. It's so much better to listen to an audiobook when cooking or cleaning, since when I listen to TV, I keep getting distracted to look at the screen and I clean 1/3 as much…

  14. Ella says

    November 4, 2013 at 11:21 pm

    I like to listen to audio books when I'm traveling in the car. Not sure what monster (if I would consider it a monster) turn up – maybe a vampire

  15. Katie Boyer says

    November 6, 2013 at 6:21 pm

    I am actually really picky about audiobooks. If I am driving, it is best for me to listen to an audiobook I already know because I kind of zone out while on the road and stop listening and instead look around at that I am passing by.

    Listening at the gym has worked for me. If I am going to be on a cardio machine for a long time at a stable pace I can listen to an audiobook then.

  16. Kirsten Weaver says

    November 8, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    I like to listen while doing housework and driving on trips

  17. Ariel T says

    November 29, 2013 at 11:05 pm

    I don't really like listening to audiobooks, but I occasionally do when I'm bored or just too lazy to actually read.

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