YA Nonfiction audiobooks

Open Mic

By: Mitali Perkins

Narrated by: Mitali Perkins, Todd Haberkorn, JD Jackson, Tom...

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Using humor as the common denominator, a multicultural cast of YA authors steps up to the mic to share stories touching on race.Listen in as ten YA authors—some familiar, some new—use their own brand of humor to share their stories about growing up between cultures. Henry Choi Lee discovers that pretending to be a tai chi master or a... Read more

Homesteading in the 21st Century

By: Janet Williams

Narrated by: Dan Culhane

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The ultimate guidebook for self-sufficiency and sustainable living in the 21st century.

I believe everyone can build a self-sufficient homestead with a little help and guidance. You could be just a few weeks away from enjoying your beautiful, sustainable lifestyle. Learn how to:

Create a Sustainable Homestead By Raising Livestock and Gardening. No... Read more

Discovering Wes Moore (The Young Adult Adaptation)

By: Wes Moore

Narrated by: Wes Moore

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

From the governor-elect of Maryland comes a story of two fatherless boys from Baltimore, both named Wes Moore. One is in prison, serving a life sentence for murder. The other is a Rhodes Scholar, an army veteran, and an author whose book is being turned into a movie produced by Oprah Winfrey.
 
The story of “the other Wes Moore” is one that the... Read more

Gettysburg Voices from the Front

By: Robert Child

Narrated by: Joe Pike

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A stirring collection of first-hand accounts from Privates on up to the commanding Generals at the Battle of Gettysburg woven into a dramatic and compelling narrative. The reader is transported back to the chaos and uncertainty of the sweltering first three days of July 1863 when Lee's Army of Northern Virginia invaded the North threatening... Read more

Essential French in 2 hours with Paul Noble

By: Paul Noble

Narrated by: Paul Noble

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been... Read more

Essential Italian in 2 hours with Paul Noble

By: Paul Noble

Narrated by: Paul Noble

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been... Read more

Essential Spanish in 2 hours with Paul Noble

By: Paul Noble

Narrated by: Paul Noble

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been... Read more

Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People)

By: Tracy Kidder & Michael French

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •“[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
 
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains]... Read more

Who Is My Neighbor? (And Why Does He Need Me?)

By: David Webb & John Hay

Narrated by: Marissa Leinart

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Recommended by Chuck Colson on BreakPoint! The third book in the award-winning What We Believe series helps children understand what it means to be salt and light to the world (Matthew 5:13-14). This study will encourage kids to develop a Christlike servant attitude based on these biblical truths: God created me to be a blessing to the world;... Read more

Funny, You Don't Look Autistic

By: Michael McCreary

Narrated by: Michael McCreary

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn’t “look” autistic. But, as he’s quick to point out in this memoir, autism “looks” different for just about everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary... Read more

Father Water, Mother Woods

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Survival in the wilderness – Gary Paulsen writes about it so powerfully in his novels Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter, Brian's Return, and Brian's Hunt because he’s lived it. These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, taking listeners through the seasons. In Paulsen’s north country, every expedition is a major one, and often... Read more

Dear Teen Me

By: E. Kristin Anderson & Miranda Kenneally

Narrated by: Julia Whelan & MacLeod Andrews

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing pains are an essential part of teenage life, for better and for worse. Some “mistakes” turn into positive, life-changing experiences, and some apparent triumphs seem, in retrospect, like low points. Some first kisses leave you feeling on top of the world, and others can make you want to hide under a rock. In Dear Teen Me, your favorite... Read more

In 80 Tagen um die Welt - Abridged

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Philipp Moog

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Der reiche Engländer Phileas Fogg sorgt im ganzen Land für Aufsehen: Er wettet, dass er es schafft, in 80 Tagen um die Welt zu reisen, und setzt dabei sein ganzes Vermögen aufs Spiel. Niemals kann das gelingen, meinen seine Freunde. Doch Fogg veranlasst seinen Diener zum Packen der nötigsten Sachen und schon sitzen beide im Zug Richtung Dover.... Read more

Blizzard of Glass

By: Sally M. Walker

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

December 6, 1917, started like any other day in Halifax. But everything stopped shortly before nine o’clock that morning, when two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One of the ships was loaded with munitions for the troops fighting in Europe; the other was preparing to collect medical supplies for the war’s victims.

The resulting disaster was... Read more

The Notorious Benedict Arnold

By: Steve Sheinkin

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

On a bitter cold day in January 1741 Benedict Arnold was born. Little did anyone know that he would grow up to become the most infamous villain in American history. But first, he would be one of the country’s greatest war heroes. Fearless in the line of fire, a genius at strategy and motivating his men, General Arnold was America’s first action... Read more

Master of Deceit

By: Marc Aronson

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“King, there is only one thing left for you to do....Take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation.”Dr. Martin Luther King received this demand in an anonymous letter in 1964. He believed that the letter was telling him to commit suicide. Who wrote this anonymous letter? Most likely William Sullivan, an assistant... Read more

We All Fall Down

By: Nic Sheff

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In his follow-up to his bestselling memoir Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff reveals a brutally honest account of a young person's struggles with relapse and rehab.

In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through his days as an addict. In this powerful follow-up... Read more

Who Is God? (And Can I Really Know Him?)

By: David Webb & John Hay

Narrated by: Marissa Leinart

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Our children are bombarded daily with competing messages. Every song, movie, book, TV show, blog, and game is full of ideas -- ideas about God, people, truth, beauty, and right and wrong. Not all of these ideas are true. Some are deceptive and even destructive. The What We Believe series helps children learn to discern the truth by using God's... Read more

Who Am I? (And What Am I Doing Here?)

By: David Webb & John Hay

Narrated by: Marissa Leinart

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Our children are bombarded daily with competing messages. Every song, movie, book, TV show, blog, and game is full of ideas -- ideas about God, people, truth, beauty, and right and wrong. Not all of these ideas are true. Some are deceptive and even destructive. The What We Believe series helps children learn to discern the truth by using God's... Read more

Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different

By: Karen Blumenthal

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Your time is limited. . . . have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."--Steve Jobs

From the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty, created Apple in his parents' garage with his friend Steve Wozniack. Then came the core... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christian Teen Talk

By: Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen

Narrated by: Nick Podehl & Kate Rudd

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

You care about your connection and relationship with God, but you are also experiencing all the ups and downs of teenage life. These 101 stories are written by teens who share their own experiences growing up as a Christian teen. You will be supported and inspired by these heartfelt true stories, as teens like you use their faith to help them... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Madeline Cla...

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton & Tom Parks

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Middle school is hard. Your bodies are changing, your friends are changing, classes are harder, and tough things happen. This “support group in a book” is specifically geared to you. Listen to stories written by kids just like you, about their middle school years, and:• true friends and new friends
• mean girls…and boys
• embarrassing moments
•... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk High School

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...

Narrated by: Nick Podehl & Kate Rudd

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook focuses on issues specific to high school age kids, ages fourteen to eighteen. Teens in high school have mainly moved past worrying about puberty and cliques, so stories in this book cover topics of interest to older teens such as sports and clubs, religion and faith, driving, curfews, growing up, self-image and self-acceptance,... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Tough Times

By: Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen

Narrated by: Nick Podehl & Kate Rudd

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Being a teenager is difficult even under idyllic circumstances. But when bad things happen, the challenges of being a teenager can be overwhelming, leading to self-destructive behavior, eating disorders, substance abuse, and other challenges. In addition, many teens are faced with illness, car accidents, loss of loved ones, divorces, or other... Read more