Across the ninth and tenth weeks of the 2021 SYNC program of free audiobooks for teens, you’ll have opportunities to meet people remaking their own lives to better fit themselves, and then stories re-imagined from lives you have probably met before in books or movies.

Making changes in your own life can be exciting, unnerving, and surprising in how those changes can affect others. Making any change first requires us to make a decision, and that can be the most difficult step in the whole process. During Week 7 of this year’s SYNC program of free audiobooks, we hear about two different changes: one with effects on a personal and a community level and the other with implications on species survival as well as big business.