Children's audiobooks

The Dark

By: Lemony Snicket

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Laszlo is afraid of the dark.

The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo. Mostly, though, the dark stays in the basement and doesn't come into Lazslo's room. But one night, it does.

This is the story of how Laszlo stops being afraid of the dark.

With emotional insight and poetic economy, two award-winning talents team up to conquer a universal... Read more

Rise

By: Anna Carey

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In the stunning conclusion to Anna Carey's epic tale of romance and sacrifice, Eve must choose who to leave behind, who to save, and who to fight in her final stand against the New America.When Eve lost her soul mate, Caleb, she felt like her world ended. Now, trapped in the palace, as a reluctant bride and unhappy princess, Eve's entire life is... Read more

Splat the Cat: On with the Show

By: Rob Scotton

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Splat the Cat can't wait to be in his school play about castles and kings and queens—maybe he'll even get to play a knight! Will Splat find a way to steal the show? Join him and his classmates for another hilarious Splat the Cat adventure! Read more

The Vine Basket

By: Josanne La Valley

Narrated by: Zeynep Bilik

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Things aren’t looking good for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul. She yearns to be in school, but she’s needed on the family farm. The longer she’s out of school, the more likely it is that she’ll be sent off to a Chinese factory . . . perhaps never to return. Her only hope is an American woman who buys one of her decorative vine baskets for a... Read more

The Sasquatch Escape

By: Suzanne Selfors

Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ben Silverstein is sent to the rundown town of Buttonville to spend the summer with his grandfather, he's certain it will be the most boring vacation ever. That is, until his grandfather¹s cat brings home what looks like . . . a baby dragon?

Enter Pearl Petal, a local girl with an eye for adventure, who helps Ben take the wounded dragon to... Read more

The Land of the Nen-Us-Yok

By: Jamie Sutliff

Narrated by: Jamie Sutliff

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Land of the Nen-Us-Yok is the second volume in a young-adult fantasy series and the sequel to The Elves of Owl's Head Mountain. The story is based on Native American magical beliefs.In The Elves of Owl's Head Mountain, a young boy was summoned to a magical dimension by a shaman. Now his adventures with the elves and wizards of that world... Read more

The Clock

By: James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier

Narrated by: Rachel Dulude

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When her spendthrift father goes into debt after buying a sheep and the inner workings of a clock, fifteen-year-old Annie Steele is sent to work in the town's new wool mill to help support her family. Her job is full of risk—especially after she and her friend Robert discover that the mill's cruel overseer is stealing bags of wool and decide to... Read more

The Empty Mirror

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Nick Hodges had always been a troublesome boy. Growing up an orphan in his Uncle Jack's care in a small New England town wasn't easy. Everyone was a little wary, a little watchful—a little too watchful. One day, while Nick is walking in the woods, a neighbor thinks she sees him miles from where he actually is. Soon a series of events reinforcing... Read more

Wild Boy

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In this rousing coming-of-age story set on the American frontier, one ornery twelve-year-old has a lot to learn if he's to survive his new life as a mountain man. Having run away after hitting Pa in a bout of rage, Jesse decides to fend for himself. Too much uncontrollable anger and inexplicable emotion since Ma went away have taken their toll.... Read more

The Dreadful Revenge of Ernest Gallen

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Gene Richards is haunted by a voice, and he doesn't like what it's saying. He's trying to ignore it—pretend it's not real—but the voice has plans for Gene. A long time ago, something bad happened in the town of Magnolia—something that Gene's grandfather and his friends want to keep quiet. The voice has started hurting those who were responsible,... Read more

To Be a King

By: Kathryn Lasky

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The eleventh title in the New York Times bestselling Guardians of Ga'Hoole series brings Hoole to kingship and the legends to fulfillment, signaling a return to the adventures of Coryn, Soren, and the Band.In this next adventure, Hoole reclaims the throne of his father and goes on to wage a war against the forces of chaos, greed, and oppression... Read more

Orphan Train Rider

By: Andrea Warren

Narrated by: Laura Hicks

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as fortunate. In recent years, some of the riders have begun to share their stories. Andrea Warren alternates chapters about the history of the orphan trains with the... Read more

Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now

By: Lauren Child

Narrated by: Claire Skinner

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A witty and insightful book about worries, starring Clarice Bean. Created by Children's Laureate Lauren Child and read by Claire Skinner, star of the BBC's 'Outnumbered'.

It's the worry you hadn't even thought to worry about that should worry you the most. At least that's how it looks to Clarice Bean, who has been writing her worries in a... Read more

Perfect Revenge

By: K.L. Denman

Narrated by: Arielle Lipshaw

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Lizzie Lane is used to life at the top of the food chain. Her near-perfect life is ruined when Rachel, a girl she socially destroyed, exacts her revenge by getting Lizzie in trouble for cheating on a test. Friendless and facing detention, Lizzie obsesses over finding the perfect revenge. When Stella, Lizzie's strange new neighbor, teaches Lizzie... Read more

It’s Murder at St. Basket’s

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Peter Mark Kendall

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher Quincy was an American boy whose father admired everything British. As a result of this trait, Chris found himself trapped at St. Basket's, an ancient London school founded—and built—in the time of Henry VIII and, Chris thought, it looked it. The corridors were dim and drafty, and the rooms of the boarding pupils, of whom Chris was... Read more

Rock Star

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

To Tim Anderson, playing the guitar is as natural—and just about as important—as breathing. He's already decided he's going to be a musician. But his father has other career plans for him—all involving college. And now, because Tim is on the verge of flunking math, he's been forbidden even to touch his guitar. It couldn't have happened at a... Read more

Cheat

By: Kristin Butcher

Narrated by: Arielle Lipshaw

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurel, caught up in the thrill of an investigation, is willing to risk her reputation to get the story, but her ultimate discovery changes everything. Laurel discovers her passion for investigative journalism when she writes an article for her school paper about a person experiencing homelessness who's been living at the school. Eager to write... Read more

The Elves of Owl’s Head Mountain

By: Jamie Sutliff

Narrated by: Jamie Sutliff

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Elves of Owl's Head Mountain is a young adult fantasy novel based on Native American magical beliefs and characters. Native Americans believed in elves, witches, wizards (shamans), wind-walkers, and changelings. They believed these magical beings "walked the wind" into other dimensions. The Elves of Owl's Head Mountain is about a boy living... Read more

Rear-View Mirrors

By: Paul Fleischman

Narrated by: Monica Willey

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Olivia hasn’t seen her father since she was eight months old. But when he summons her out of the blue, Olivia travels cross country to New Hampshire to meet him. That summer, she learns to adapt to rural life and to try to understand her reclusive father. The next summer, following high school graduation, she returns to... Read more

The Shade

By: K.L. Denman

Narrated by: Arielle Lipshaw

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Safira doesn't believe in ghosts, but the girl in her cabin at camp was not a living person, so what was she? Safira's friend Trinity is convinced Safira's seen a ghost and sets out to discover who the ghost girl is. Safira is too busy dealing with her family to help solve the mystery. Safira has never gotten along with her sister, Mya, and now... Read more

Bedtime

By: Michelle Roberton-Jones

Narrated by: Michelle Roberton-Jones

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Michelle Roberton-Jones has created ten special bedtime meditations for children ages five and up, with music provided by Llewellyn. Meditation at bedtime aids a good night's sleep and encourages the child to release the day, to let go of all that no longer matters with the breath, and to listen to and concentrate on the words as magnificent... Read more

Blob

By: Frieda Wishinsky

Narrated by: Arielle Lipshaw

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It's hard enough for Eve to adjust to a new high school without the extra weight she's gained over the summer. Her best friend is ashamed to hang out with her, and she's become the focus of a schoolmate's cruelty. Determined not to be "that pathetic fat girl" at school, Eve struggles with a diet and forces herself to join a mentoring program.... Read more

Die Olchis und der Geist der blauen Berge - Abridged

By: Erhard Dietl

Narrated by: Rainer Schmitt, Robert Missler, Dagmar Dreke, E...

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Touristen hinterlassen zu viel Müll beim Wandern? Kein Problem: Schmuddelfings Bürgermeister schickt einfach die Olchis los. Die werden den Müll schon wegfuttern. In den blauen Bergen treffen die Olchis überraschend ihren blauen Artgenossen. Und weil der die Müll-Touristen ganz und gar nicht krötig findet, will er sie mal so richtig... Read more

Spanish Christmas Stories for Children - Abridged

By: Pedro Pablo Sacristán

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua & Lorie Kellogg

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Visit Santa at the North Pole, witness the birth of Baby Jesus, go inside Noah's Ark, and more! These ten timeless short stories, by noted Spanish children's author Pedro Pablo Sacristan, will charm and entertain your whole family. Christmas stories include: "The Best Choice," "A Forced Christmas," "Bula the Traveler," "Christmas Presents,"... Read more