Children's audiobooks

Ivy Takes Care

By: Rosemary Wells

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After her best friend, Annie, leaves for a fancy camp in New Hampshire, Ivy can’t imagine how she’s going to endure the long, hot Nevada summer with no one around but that pain-in-the-neck Billy Joe Butterworth next door and all those melancholy visitors to the Red Star Guest Ranch. Happily, an answer comes to Ivy in a flash of honey-colored... Read more

Stranded

By: Jeff Probst & Chris Tebbetts

Narrated by: Charles Carroll

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

It was supposed to be a vacation—and a chance to get to know each other better. But when a massive storm sets in without warning, four kids are shipwrecked alone on a rocky jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific. No adults. No instructions. Nobody to rely on but themselves. Can they make it home alive? A week ago, the biggest challenge... Read more

Beholding Bee

By: Kimberly Newton Fusco

Narrated by: Ariadne Meyers

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fans of Kate DiCamillo, Jennifer Holm, and Polly Horvath will find this an enjoyable and engrossing read.” —School Library Journal
 
Bee is an orphan who lives with a carnival and sleeps in the back of a truck. Every day she endures taunts for the birthmark on her face, though she prefers to think of it as a precious diamond.
 
Then one day a... Read more

The Adventures of Sir Givret the Short

By: Gerald Morris

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the help of his gallant Knights of the Round Table.

There was Sir Lancelot the Great, Sir Kay the Loyal, Sir Bedivere the Just, and others, including young Givret, who was known for being . . . well, short. Poor Givret: his size makes him so easy to... Read more

Sever

By: Lauren DeStefano

Narrated by: Angela Lin

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren DeStefano's New York Times best-selling Chemical Garden trilogy has drawn immense praise from an ever-growing fanbase. In the saga's chilling conclusion, Rhine's race against time brings her to Vaughn's eccentric brother Reed. Elsewhere, Rowan's involvement in the underground resistance reaches dangerous new heights. When Rhine's search... Read more

Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout

By: Megan McDonald

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Stink may be super smart and Stink may be uber-clever, but he just can’t seem to turn into a Dolphin. He’s been in the Polliwog swim class for what seems like frog-ever, and still can’t bear to put his face in the water. Then, one day, Stink has a close encounter with a freaky mutant frog. All of a sudden, his froggy senses are tingling! He has... Read more

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great

By: Gerald Morris

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the help of his gallant Knights of the Round Table.

Sir Lancelot the Great
Of these worthy knights, there was never one so fearless, so chivalrous, so honorable, so . . . shiny as the dashing Sir Lancelot, who was quite good at defending the helpless and... Read more

The Same Stuff As Stars

By: Katherine Paterson

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Paterson, author of Newbery Medal winners Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved, again displays her storytelling talent in this powerful novel. Eleven-year-old Angel must play the adult when she and her brother are abandoned at their great-grandmother's house and the old lady proves incapable of caring for them. An emotional... Read more

Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.!

By: Eleanora Tate

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Mary Elouise is unhappy about who she is, until two African storytellers come to her school and help her to appreciate the value of her heritage. Eleanora E. Tate shares the richness of the contemporary African American experience with themes that speak to young readers of every color: self-acceptance, a healthy pride, and the importance... Read more

What Happened on Planet Kid

By: Jane Leslie Conly

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

At her aunt and uncle's farm in the summer of 1958, 12-year-old Dawn and her new friend Charlotte create their own private world: Planet Kid. Away from whiny brothers and nosy neighbor boys, they pass one carefree day after another. But as dark secrets from the adult world creep into Planet Kid, Dawn must make some tough choices-choices that... Read more

The Presence

By: Eve Bunting

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Catherine hopes visiting her beloved grandmother will help ease the pain she feels over the death of her best friend. Instead, an encounter with a young, handsome stranger presents her with a dangerous dilemma. Award-winning author Eve Bunting has also written The Hideout and Jumping the Nail. Read more

Rash

By: Pete Hautman

Narrated by: Andy Paris

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Award, Pete Hautman pens a futuristic satire brimming with wry humor and honored by a Booklist starred review. Welcome to the United Safer States of America in 2076! Here, prisoners perform all manual labor. And the country is finally safe. Sixteen-year-old Bo ignores governmental protective devices capturing every... Read more

Ragweed

By: Avi

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

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

A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. Ragweed is determined to see the world. He leaves his family and cozy country home and sets off by train for the big city. What wonders await him: music,... Read more

The Other Side of Dark

By: Joan Lowery Nixon

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen-year-old Stacy is sunbathing in the backyard when she hears a strange noise from inside the house. Turning to look, she sees a man with a gun burst through the door; then everything goes black. She wakes up in a hospital bed to learn that she has spent the last four years in a catatonic state. Suddenly 17, she finds herself struggling... Read more

Shadowmaker

By: Joan Lowery Nixon

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Katie Gillian's mother is a dedicated investigative reporter. Her articles have helped innocent men on death row and have halted the illegal dumping of toxic wastes. Now the Gillians have moved from their home in Dallas to a small, quiet Texas town, where Katie's mother is taking six months off to write a novel. In the local high school, Katie... Read more

Toys Come Home

By: Emily Jenkins

Narrated by: Sara Barnett

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

When a little girl gets a plush stingray for her birthday, it makes friends with some of her other toys as they all try to navigate in the world of real people. Read more

Shadow on the Mountain

By: Margi Preus

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Margi Preus has established herself as a preeminent voice in children's literature with works like Newbery Honor Book Heart of a Samurai. In Shadow on the Mountain, Preus recounts the adventures of a teenage Norwegian boy during World War II. Young Espen defies occupying Nazi soldiers by becoming a spy for the Norwegian resistance movement. But... Read more

Just So Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Let young adults discover the exotic landscape, the wondrous magic, and the fascinating menagerie of creatures-jaguars and kangaroos, hedgehogs and leopards-that have made Rudyard Kipling's Just-So Stories worldwide favorites for a century. Included: The Crab that Played with the Sea, How the Camel Got His Hump, and ten others. Read more

Shark Bait

By: Graham Salisbury

Narrated by: Graham Salisbury

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Mokes is 12, and he knows he's supposed to stay out of town Saturday night when the Navy comes ashore. But tonight's the night when his hero, tough-guy Booley, has vowed to get revenge on a sailor. He's got to be there! One problem: Mokes's Dad is the chief of police. Written with the voice and rhythm of the street that only first-hand knowledge... Read more

Perfect

By: Natasha Friend

Narrated by: Danielle Ferland

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

First-time novelist Natasha Friend is a writer with a talent for realistically expressing the fears and uncertainties of today's adolescents in a good story. Perfect has received the Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature and is a Book Sense "Winter Picks" selection. This is the moving story of a young girl who develops a dangerous eating... Read more

Surviving Brick Johnson

By: Laurie Myers

Narrated by: Joel Leffert

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex is enjoying a laugh with friends in fifth grade. The next he's fearing for his life. The huge new kid, Brick Johnson, is one guy he doesn't want to mess with, and now Alex has to do something . Quick! Author Laurie Myers captures Alex's growing fear and Brick's mysterious nature, while the humorous narration by Joel Leffert brings the... Read more

Rose in Bloom

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Returning to the "Aunt Hill" from a two-year trip around the world, 20-year-old Rose Campbell suddenly finds herself surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them! Rose is rich and pretty, and she suspects many of these suitors are more interested in her wealth than her dreams. But she is determined to live her own life and find... Read more

Shug

By: Jenny Han

Narrated by: Elizabeth Morton

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

First-time novelist Jenny Han has penned a realistic story that all middle-graders will surely be able to relate to. Meet 12-year-old Annemarie "Shug" Wilcox. What's not to like about her? She's smart, she's tall, and she has lots of freckles. She lives in a small Georgia town with her popular, gorgeous older sister and intellectual mother. Shug... Read more

The Octopus

By: Cynthia Rylant

Narrated by: Mark Nelson

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Rylant pens the enchanting tale of Whistler and Lila's adventures during the low tide of the full moon. The mice children set off to meet new creatures before the tide comes back in and washes the creatures back to sea. Suddenly, a young octopus named Cleo startles the children, but the three soon become good... Read more