Children's audiobooks

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

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

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

Pedro’s Halloween Fables - Abridged

By: Pedro Pablo Sacristán

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua & Lorie Kellogg

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Goblins, fairies, witches, and ghosts! These ten short Halloween themed stories, by noted Spanish children's author Pedro Pablo Sacristan, will charm and entertain your whole family! These delightful stories are produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio and theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, and performed by husband and wife... 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

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

Penguin Pandemonium - The Wild Beast

By: Jeanne Willis

Narrated by: Penelope MacDonald

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The third of the award-winning Penguin Pandemonium books. Part of the Awesome Animals series – the funniest fiction, starring the wildest wildlife, from prize-winning authors. Rory and his pals have got their flippers in a flap!The swimming, singing, snowboarding penguins of City Zoo have got competition. There’s a new... Read more

Stallion by Starlight

By: Mary Pope Osborne

Narrated by: Mary Pope Osborne

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!

Hold your horses! Jack and Annie must find four secrets of greatness for Merlin the magician. To start, they travel back in time to meet Alexander the Great. He should know all about greatness, right? But young... Read more

Wasteland

By: Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan

Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of the Divergent and Hunger Games series will love Wasteland, the first installment of the Wasteland trilogy, by five-time Emmy Award–nominated writer Susan Kim and Edgar Award–winning Laurence Klavan. With heart-pounding thrills, this harrowing survival story is alive with action and intrigue. Welcome to the Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic... Read more

The Mystery of the Lost Village

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

The Boxcar Children learn lots of interesting things about the Navajos – but best of all is a legend about an ancient Native American village that once existed nearby. Curious, the children begin digging there and uncover some valuable artifacts. But it seems someone wants the village to stay buried! Read more

The Mystery of the Purple Pool

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Narrated by: Aimee Lilly

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and they’re going on an exciting trip to New York City! The children have a great time visiting the Empire State Building and ice skating at Rockefeller Center. But they discover something very strange at the hotel swimming pool:... Read more

The Ghost Ship Mystery

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Narrated by: Aimee Lilly

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Boxcar Children are spending time in a New England fishing village. They learn of an old legend about a ship that sank just off the coast. No one knows what really happened to the ship, and the townspeople say it reappears on dark, stormy nights. Can the children find out the truth about the ghost ship? Read more

Buk

By: Robin Bennett

Narrated by: Imogen Stubbs

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Nancy's mother is having a baby and it is making her ill; Nancy's father is angry with her mother because they can't afford the baby; Nancy is angry with everyone. Then she starts to see things... things that should only happen in fairytales. Is Buk a sign she is going mad or is he there to save her? Read more

Building Our House

By: Jonathan Bean

Narrated by: Matthew Brown

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013In this unique construction book for kids who love tools and trucks, readers join a girl and her family as they pack up their old house in... Read more

In Defiance of Hitler

By: Carla Killough McClafferty

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 4, 1940, an unassuming American journalist named Varian Fry made his way to Marseilles, France, carrying in his pockets the names of approximately two hundred artists and intellectuals - all enemies of the new Nazi regime. As a volunteer for the Emergency Rescue Committee, Fry's mission was to help these refugees flee to safety, then... Read more

Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray?

By: Randy Powell

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Biff, a weird, wild-haired high school senior with a couple of problems. He's 18 but looks more like 14, which makes it hard for people-especially girls-to take him seriously. He's too shy to say anything more than "Hi' to Tommie, the girl he's had a crush on for two years. The way things are going, it doesn't look like Biff will ever find... Read more

Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move

By: Judith Viorst

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander's dad has a new job a thousand miles away, so now his family has to move. Alexander would rather have poison ivy. Maybe he could live with the Baldwins and their dog. He's always wanted a dog. How can he leave Rachel, his favorite baby-sitter, who taught him to stand on his head and whistle with two fingers (but not at the same time)?... Read more

Venom

By: Marilyn Singer

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Beware! Poisonous things are all around you. In the spirt of What Stinks?, Marilyn Singer brings kids the coolest, newest info on creatures that can harm or even kill with a bite or sting. Read more

Dean Duffy

By: Randy Powell

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Although he's only just graduated from high school, 18-year-old Dean Duffy thinks of himself as a has-been. Mired in an inexplicable and frustrating two-year batting slump, he helplessly watches as a once-promising baseball career fizzles when he strikes out to end his senior season. With his baseball career now seemingly over, Dean settles into... Read more

Sweet Friday Island

By: Theodore Taylor

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Peg Toland and her father think they've found the perfect vacation spot: a beautiful, uninhabited Mexican island in the sparkling Sea of Cortez. Unfortunately, the locals who live on the coast do not agree. "That is no place to go," they tell the Tolands with alarm. They will not explain why. Peg and her father should have listened to these... Read more

Kiss

By: Aileen Weintraub

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

I wanna rock and roll all night are the words that fans shout at KISS concerts. Self-proclaimed hottest band in the land, KISS rocks stadiums and albums. Their upbeat anthem Rock and Roll All Nite rocketed them to stardom. Fans can t get enough of their loud, showy, and flashy concerts. Read about the band members and how they formed KISS, the... Read more

Wabi Sabi

By: Mark Reibstein

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as "simply beautiful" by Kirkus Reviews, this is the poetic tale of Wabi Sabi, a Japanese cat who doesn't understand her name. As she travels across the country searching for answers, she begins to understand the most wonderful things are often those that seem most ordinary. Author Mark Reibstein's innovative use of haiku makes Wabi Sabi... Read more

April Fool!

By: Karen Gray Ruelle

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Trying to think up some tricks to play on Mom and Dad for April Fools' Day, Harry and his little sister, Emily, know they'll need something even more special than the plastic spiders and whoopee cushion they used last year. A trip to the magic shop gives them all they need to play some tricky tricks, but Harry thinks Emily is too little to fool... Read more

The Secret Garden

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary, unloved and selfish, finds friendship and happiness helping her neurotic, invalid cousin become strong and healthy. Nature's powerful magic touches both children as they toil to revive their secret garden. The story alludes to some very modern themes including the ability of mental beliefs to create health, the strength of group optimism,... Read more