Children's audiobooks

The Secret of Gumbo Grove

By: Eleanora Tate

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven-year-old Raisin enjoys doing odd jobs for old Ms. Effie Pfluggins. Ms. Effie is the church secretary, and she has fascinating stories to tell about the African American history and people of Gumbo Grove. When old Miss Pfluggins asks her to help clean up the church cemetery, Raisin discovers a real-life mystery that no one wants to talk... Read more

The Secret School

By: Avi

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1925 Colorado, 14-year-old Ida Bidson dreams of becoming a teacher, but she knows it won't be easy. When the school board closes the town's one-room school, threatening to keep Ida from finishing eighth grade and moving on to high school, it looks like her dream will never come true. Then she and her classmates come up with a plan for a... Read more

Horrible Harry and the Drop of Doom

By: Suzy Kline

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The school year is ending, and Song Lee has invited Harry and some other classmates to an amusement park for a party. Everyone is looking forward to the rides: canoeing down the waterfall on Kasploosh Mountain, enjoying the 60s music and cars on Main Street, and floating through the Haunted House. But when Sydney starts talking about the newest... Read more

Red Sings from Treetops

By: Joyce Sidman

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In spring, Red sings from treetops: cheer-cheer-cheer, each note dropping like a cherry into my ear. Sleepy Yellow sticks to summer. Yet ocean Blue stays cool and alive. Green fades in fall, turns to dust, and no longer keeps Brown at bay. In winter, Pink blossoms on chilled cheeks. And Black echoes through the still of winter's night. But... Read more

One Beetle Too Many

By: Kathryn Lasky

Narrated by: Stafford Clark-Price

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively exploration into the life of Charles Darwin, One Beetle Too Many recounts both Darwin's childhood and his time on the Beagle as a naturalist. This adventurous tale explores Darwin's discoveries in geology, paleontology, and animal anatomy that led to his famous theory of evolution. Read more

Secret, Silent Screams

By: Joan Lowery Nixon

Narrated by: Alexandra O'Karma

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The coroner has ruled Barry Logan's death as the latest in a string of teen-age suicides. Marti Lewis was Barry's best friend, and she knows that he was murdered. She just can't get anyone to believe her. The evidence is clear to Marti. Barry was excited about being accepted at Texas A&M and had everything to live for. Why would he shoot... Read more

Zero the Hero

By: Joan Holub

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning children's author Joan Holub has penned over 70 books for young audiences in her decades-spanning career. In Zero the Hero, Holub offers a humorous and lighthearted look at one of math's most overlooked, yet essential, figures - the number zero. All the other numbers scoff at Zero's value, but as soon as one of them gets into... Read more

The Perilous Gard

By: Elizabeth Marie Pope

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Sutton is all arms and legs. She possesses none of her sister Alicia's honey-eyed beauty, but is intelligent and willful like her grandfather. It is an injustice, then, when Kate is falsely accused of Alicia's wrongdoing and is banished to remote Elvenwood Hall. But the world Kate encounters in Derbyshire, England is so strange and... Read more

Windcatcher

By: Avi

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Tony has saved $300, enough to buy a small sailboat. He will use it every day during his three-week stay with his grandmother on the Connecticut shore. Once Tony learns to sail, he starts exploring the waters around a group of tiny islands offshore. One day, he sees two people in diving gear on a motorboat. But instead of greeting him, they wave... Read more

Second Chance

By: Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye

Narrated by: Scott Shina

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The world has been thrown into chaos after thousands of people suddenly vanished one horrifying evening. Four kids in the Chicago suburbs-Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan-reel with shock as they learn they are the only ones left in their families. As the truth behind the disappearances becomes clear, the kids discover they are faced with... Read more

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

By: Kate Douglas Wiggin

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This unforgettable classic has been captivating children and adults alike for more than a century. Rebecca's widowed mother has a failing farm, meager resources, and seven children to raise. When her spinster sisters offer Rebecca a home and an education, Mrs. Randall bundles her second eldest into a stagecoach with a kiss and an admonition to... Read more

The Vanishings

By: Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye

Narrated by: Scott Shina

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The evening begins like many others. Lionel falls asleep while listening to his uncle tell stories. Ryan stays up reading and listening to music. Vicki goes out smoking pot with her friends. And Judd, tired of being told what to do, takes his father's credit card and heads to the airport in search of freedom. But in one shocking moment,... Read more

A Small White Scar

By: K.A. Nuzum

Narrated by: Steven Boyer

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Kathy Nuzum's debut novel, compared favorably to Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, follows a set of twins: one bent on rodeo super-stardom and one content to follow behind. Will is sure of what the future holds for him, but he's not so sure what life holds for his twin brother Denny. The two are as different as night and day, but they both hold with... Read more

Skellig

By: David Almond

Narrated by: David Almond

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain.

Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who needs Michael's help if he is to survive. With his... Read more

Secret Heart

By: David Almond

Narrated by: David Almond

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe lives with his mother in Helmouth, a forgotten village crumbling on the edge of the suburbs. His days are spent trying to evade the demands of school and the taunts of the local bullies. Joe's friend, Stanny, insists that Joe must toughen up, become a survivor - and he is adamant that a weekend in the wilderness with Stanny and his Uncle... Read more

Unfed

By: Kirsty McKay

Narrated by: Amy Shindler

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The good news: Bobby survived her Undead school trip. Bad news: her best mate, Smitty, is missing. Bobby knows she's got to find him, even if it means risking it all and going out into the starving-zombie-infested wastelands again. Even if it means taking fellow survivors along for the ride. And even if the zombies are not the only ones who are... Read more

Operation Bunny

By: Sally Gardner

Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Vole makes headline news in the first weeks of her life, when she is found in an abandoned hatbox in Stanstead Airport.

Then, only a few years later, her neighbour Mrs String dies leaving Emily a mysterious inheritance: an old shop, a small bunch of golden keys and a cat called Fidget. In the shop Emily discovers drawers full of fairy... Read more

The Mystery of Wickworth Manor

By: Elen Caldecott

Narrated by: Sophie Aldred

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

On a school trip to Wickworth Manor, the local stately home, Curtis finds a portrait in his bedroom of a young black servant dressed in livery. But why is the portrait hidden in the bedroom? Then Paige finds an intriguing letter which mentions the portrait, written over 200 years ago by Miss Verity Burton, who used to live at the Manor. There is... Read more

Kit's Wilderness

By: David Almond

Narrated by: David Almond

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Kit has just moved to Stoneygate with his family, to live with his ageing grandfather who is gradually succumbing to Alzheimer's Disease. Stoneygate is an insular place, scarred by its mining history - by the danger and death it has brought them. Where the coal mine used to be there is now a wilderness.

Here Kit meets Askew, a surly and... Read more

Moonbird

By: Phillip Hoose

Narrated by: Phillip Hoose

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet rufa red knot B95. Scientists call him the Moonbird because, in the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, this robin-sized shorebird has ?own the distance to the moon—and halfway back! Each February he joins a ?ock that lifts off from Tierra del Fuego, headed for breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic, nine thousand miles away. Late in... Read more

Seven Wonders Book 1: The Colossus Rises

By: Peter Lerangis

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestselling Series!“A high-octane mix of modern adventure and ancient secrets. The Colossus Rises is Lerangis’s most gripping work yet. Young readers will love this story. I can’t wait to see what’s next in the Seven Wonders series!” —Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson seriesPercy Jackson meets Indiana Jones in master... Read more

City of a Thousand Dolls

By: Miriam Forster

Narrated by: Shannon McManus

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The girl with no past, and no future, may be the only one who can save their lives.Nisha was abandoned at the gates of the City of a Thousand Dolls when she was just a little girl. Now sixteen, she lives on the grounds of the isolated estate, where orphan girls apprentice as musicians, healers, courtesans, and, if the rumors are true, assassins.... Read more

Oh So Tiny Bunny

By: David Kirk

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

During the day, Oh So Tiny Bunny is very, very small. But at night, he dreams of being big—as big as a dragon, or even a mountain! At first, that's fine, but then he feels lonely. There's no one to share it with. Are there no other bunnies so big as him?
Every small child dreams of the day they will grow up to be big, but in this book David Kirk... Read more

The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This children's fantasy novel is a collection of stories that follow the Monarch of Mo and the people of his magical land. The people of Mo live in a perfect land in which all of their essentials grow on trees. But not all is perfect for the Monarch. He has several adventures throughout the novel, first of which includes the Purple Dragon that... Read more