Children's audiobooks

My Mountain Song

By: Shutta Crum

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed children's author Shutta Crum presents an attractive tale of country living. Brenda Gail Munson is very excited to be staying with her great-grandparents up on the mountain for the summer. But her cousin Melvin has come to visit too, and he's so annoying! When Melvin taunts Brenda, she throws a handful of dirt and stones at him. But... Read more

Poppy & Rye

By: Avi

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth book in the beloved Poppy series by Newbery Medal–winning author Avi, with illustrations from Caldecott Medal–winning artist Brian Floca

Heartbroken over the death of her fiancé, Ragweed, Poppy the deer mouse journeys west through the vast Dimwood Forest to bring the sad news to Ragweed's family. But Poppy and her prickly porcupine pal... Read more

The Kingdom by the Sea

By: Robert Westall

Narrated by: Ron Keith

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The air raid siren that pierces the English night sky comes as no surprise to young Harry Baguely. Ever since Hitler began sending his warplanes to raid London, Harry has become an old hand at running to his family's bomb shelter and waiting for the attacks to end. This time, though, Harry's family doesn't make it to the shelter. A war orphan... Read more

The Fighting Ground

By: Avi

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan's older brother is away fighting with General Washington in Pennsylvania. But at 13, Jonathan is too young to fight. Still too young. Then one morning, April 3, 1778, the tavern bell sounds, calling men to arms. Eager to prove his mettle, with blood pounding in his ears, Jonathan joins the gathering men at the tavern to hear the news.... Read more

Summer of Fear

By: Lois Duncan

Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For 15-year-old Rachel Bryant, summer vacation promises to be fun. Her 17-year-old cousin Julia will be coming to Albuquerque, New Mexico to live with the Bryants, following her parents' deaths. With two brothers, Rachel is looking forward to finally having a sister. From the moment Julia arrives, everyone is enchanted with the orphaned... Read more

Esther's Story

By: Diane Wolkstein

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The beautiful young Esther has been chosen as queen by the king of Persia. Surrounded by servants, each day she wears gorgeous dresses and eats delicious foods in his luxurious court. Still, she remembers the promise made to her uncle when she was a child. She tells no one that she is Jewish. One day the prime minister, angry because Esther's... Read more

The Man Who Was Poe

By: Avi

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Old City lay dark and cold …

It is night. And Edmund is alone. His mother is gone. His aunt, who went in search of her, is dead. His sister has disappeared. Edmund has no one. Except for a stranger of the night.

A dark, mysterious stranger who flees from his own demons … who follows Edmund with grim determination through the cold and shadow... Read more

The Barn

By: Avi

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin was nine years old in the spring of 1855 when his father met with the accident that changed Benjamin's life. Called home from boarding school, his first sight of his father lying nearly lifeless in the bed petrified him. Gone was the energetic man who had held the family together when Benjamin's mother succumbed to diphtheria. With the... Read more

Guinea Pig Scientists

By: Leslie Dendy & Mel Boring

Narrated by: Jonathan Fried

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

It's one thing for scientists to use animals for their experiments. But it's another thing entirely for them to use humans to test out a new vaccine or medical treatment-especially when the scientists are the subjects of their own experiments! Guinea Pig Scientists features brief but informative biographies of men and women who have changed the... Read more

Janie Face to Face

By: Caroline B. Cooney

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of psychological thrillers like We Were Liars, Girl on the Train, and Beware That Girl, bestselling author Caroline Cooney’s Janie series delivers on every level. Mystery and suspense blend seamlessly with issues of family, friendship and love to offer an emotionally evocative thrill ride of a read.

Janie Johnson has received unwanted... Read more

The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral

By: Robert Westall

Narrated by: Ron Keith

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Steeplejack Joe Clark climbed his first factory chimney when he was four years old. Steeplejacking had been in his family for five generations. Not much frightened him. Certainly not stone. So when Joe is offered the lucrative job of repairing the weathercock and stonework on one of Muncaster Cathedral's spires, he can't believe his good... Read more

Here Comes the Garbage Barge

By: Jonah Winter

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed children's author Jonah Winter reimagines a true story from 1987. The small Long Island town of Islip has a big problem-3,168 tons of garbage and no place to put it! So workers pile the smelly refuse on a large barge, hire a tug boat, and send the stuff south to find a final resting place. But as the barge travels from North... Read more

Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?

By: Avi

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A fast-paced, madcap adventure--with a fresh new cover treatment--from the always surprising raconteur, Avi! It's the spring of 1945 in Brooklyn, and while WWII rages in Europe, sixth grader Frankie Wattleson--inspired by the heroics of The Lone Ranger and other radio show idols--sets out to right the wrongs of the world. Frankie is so caught up... Read more

Immigrant Kids

By: Russell Freedman

Narrated by: Brian Keeler

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Many people came to America in the early 1900s looking for jobs, opportunity, and freedom, and a lot of them were kids. But what happened to all these immigrant children after they passed inspection at New York's Ellis Island-that is, if they passed inspection? Life was not easy for immigrants. Large families lived in small, one-room tenement... Read more

The Salem Witch Trials

By: Jane Yolen & Heidi E.Y. Stemple

Narrated by: Jessica Almasy

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

During the long, cold winter of 1692, seven young ladies from Salem, Massachusetts, begin to display disturbing symptoms. They're convulsing, contorting, cowering, and croaking strange sounds. Finding no help from medical books, the village doctor declares them bewitched. Having already triggered more than 60,000 executions in Europe, the fear... Read more

Roanoke: The Lost Colony

By: Jane Yolen & Heidi E.Y. Stemple

Narrated by: Jessica Almasy

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Spurred on by Sir Walter Raleigh, John White leads 120 men, women, and children across the treacherous Atlantic to colonize the wilds of Virginia. Landing at Roanoke Island in July of 1587-with hostile Indians afoot and little food for winter-the colonists persuade White to return to England for the supplies and help they need. After a... Read more

World War II

By: Sir Tony Robinson

Narrated by: Sir Tony Robinson

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of Best Books with Facts in the 2013 Blue Peter awards, voted for by children.

In Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders World War II, Sir Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War II! It's history,... Read more

The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop

By: Kate Saunders

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Reminiscent of Road Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . . . a great read-aloud." --Booklist

Welcome to the most magical house in London. 

The family of eleven-year-old twins Oz and Lily have inherited it, together with the mysterious shop downstairs. Long ago, the shop's famous chocolate-makers, who also happen to be Oz and Lily's great... Read more

Garden Princess

By: Kristin Kladstrup

Narrated by: Kate Reinders

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Princess Adela has always been more than a little unconventional. She would rather work in her garden than find a husband—much to her step-mother’s dismay—and Adela’s version of happily ever after involves traveling the world and collecting rare plant specimens. So when the opportunity arises to attend a garden party thrown by Lady Hortensia,... Read more

Wild Boy

By: Mary Losure

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

One day, villagers from Lacaune, in the mountains of southern France, returned from the woods with a startling story. They’d glimpsed a naked boy digging in the leaves. A year later—in 1798—the strange, scarred boy appeared again, and this time woodsmen captured him and marched him down the mountain to the village square, where everyone crowded... Read more

The Marvin Redpost Series Collection

By: Louis Sachar

Narrated by: Everette Plen

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Marvin Redpost, the Master of Mayhem!
 
Kidnapped at Birth?: Marvin Redpost has finally figured out why he doesn't look like anyone in his family. He's not really Marvin Redpost—he's Robert, the lost prince of Shampoon!

Why Pick on Me?: Marvin is shunned by his classmates and teacher after he is unfairly fingered as a nose-picker by the class... Read more

Code

By: Kathy Reichs & Brendan Reichs

Narrated by: Cristin Milioti

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Virals are put to the ultimate test when they find a geocache containing an ornate puzzle box. Shelton decodes the cipher inside, only to find more tantalizing clues left by "The Gamemaster." A second, greater geocache is within reach--if the Virals are up to the challenge.

But the hunt takes a dark turn when Tory locates the other box--a... Read more

Mirage

By: Jenn Reese

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The desert is no place for ocean-dwelling Kampii like Aluna and Hoku, especially now that Aluna has secretly started growing her tail. But the maniacal Karl Strand is out to conquer the Above World, and the horselike Equians are next on his list. Aluna, Hoku, and their friends—winged Calli and Equian exile Dash—race to the desert city of Mirage,... Read more

Chasing the Prophecy

By: Brandon Mull

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling Beyonders fantasy trilogy comes to a stunning and epic conclusion.

Jason and Rachel were not born in Lyrian. They did not grow up in Lyrian. But after all of the battles and losses, the triumphs and adventures, and most of all, the friendships forged in this fantastical world, Lyrian has become home to them in a... Read more