Children's audiobooks

Buttercup's Lovely Day

By: Carolyn Beck

Narrated by: Priscilla Holbrook

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Called a "read-aloud gem" by Quill & Quire, this picture book will delight children with its creative use of language and endearing illustrations. In rhyming text that winds like a creek through a farmer's field, the book takes readers on a journey through one lovely day in Buttercup's life. Whether she is ruminating on the mud beneath her... Read more

Library Mouse

By: Daniel Kirk

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author and illustrator of over 30 children's books, Daniel Kirk delights kids with his fun-filled tales. The first in a new series, Library Mouse tells the story of Sam, a young mouse who lives in a hole in the library and comes out at night to write stories. His books are soon found by a puzzled librarian, who leaves a note inviting... Read more

Hilda Must Be Dancing

By: Karma Wilson

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning Karma Wilson, author of Bear Snores On, has created the delightful Hilda Hippo-a hippo who loves to dance despite all the noise she makes while doing so. It's just that the Ka-bump! Ka-bump! Crash! Crash! Crash! noises disturb her jungle friends. Maybe Hilda could take up knitting? But knitting doesn't quite suit the would-be... Read more

M.C. Higgins, the Great

By: Virginia Hamilton

Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Two years ago bulldozers had come to make a cut at the top of Sarah's Mountain. They began uprooting trees and pushing subsoil in a huge pile to get at the coal. As the pile grew enormous, so had M.C.'s fear of it. He had nightmares in which the heap came tumbling down. Over and over again, it buried his family on the side of the... Read more

Astrid Lindgrens Märchen

By: Astrid Lindgren

Narrated by: Manfred Steffen

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Zauberhaft und geheimnisvoll ist Astrid Lindgrens Märchenwelt. Petra und Peter, zwei Kinder so groß wie Puppen, tauchen plötzlich in der Schule auf. Eine Elfe fliegt ins Kinderzimmer von Lena und der Junge Göran erlebt Abenteuer im Land der Dämmerung. Der Erzählband enthält 15 der schönsten Märchen der weltberühmten schwedischen... Read more

Larky Mavis

By: Brock Cole

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mooning about, Larky Mavis trips on three peanuts. She eats two of them, but when she sees what is in the third peanut, she can only laugh and say, "I won't eat you!" The villagers can't agree on exactly what Larky Mavis has found, but they soon have to admit that something strange and wonderful is happening in this delightful, contemporary... Read more

The Bloody Country

By: James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen-year-old Ben Buck and his family spent four years clearing the wilderness to build a new home in Pennsylvania. They fought the Indians and the British, and they made sacrifices most people wouldn't have been strong enough to make, all so they could be independent and free. Now someone's trying to take everything away from them—their... Read more

Little Men

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Men (1871) by Louisa May Alcott is a classic coming-of-age story about Jo and her husband Professor Bhaer, who open a progressive school for boys at their home, Plumfield Estate.

The novel follows the lives of the boys and their interactions with each other and the adults, as they learn important life lessons and grow into young adults.... Read more

The Worst of Times

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Charles Carroll

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Depression strikes America, throwing millions out of work, Petey Williamson’s family seems safe. Hadn’t the boss promised Petey’s father that he’d always have a job? But during the Depression, promises cannot always be kept, and Petey finds his family sliding rapidly into poverty. And when Petey’s much-admired cousin Steve starts... Read more

Jumping the Scratch

By: Sarah Weeks

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Sarah Weeks is critically acclaimed for her numerous best-selling books for children of all ages. In Jumping the Scratch, she tells the tale of Jamie Reardon, who has always been told that bad things happen in threes. So when his father leaves, his cat dies, and his Aunt Sapphy is in an accident that makes it impossible for... Read more

The Maze

By: Will Hobbs

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

IRA/CBC Teachers' Choice
Junior Library Guild Selection
ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
American Bookseller Pick of the Lists
ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
IRA/CBC Young Adults’ Choice

Just fourteen, Rick Walder is alone, on the run, and desperate. Stowing away in the back of a truck, he... Read more

Seal Song

By: Andrea Spalding

Narrated by: Priscilla Holbrook

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"No good comes from seal songs," says Finn's father. But Finn believes differently. Finn loves to swim with the seals in a secret cove. He arrives at the cove one day and rescues a young seal tangled in netting. Finn wishes the seal could live on land. That night the seals sing. When Sheila, a mysterious girl no one has ever seen before, appears... Read more

The Corn Raid

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Life for indentured servants in pioneer Virginia is hard. It is doubly hard for Richard Ayre, a London orphan who had been scooped off the streets as a child and sent to the Jamestown Colony. But a chance encounter with an Indian boy his own age gives him a friend, the first real friend he has had in years—until his master's plan to raid an... Read more

Sternenschweif, Teil 23: Liebeszauber

By: Linda Chapman

Narrated by: Anette Gunkel, Anita Hopt & Henry Dahlke

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Das magische Pony Sternenschweif ist der geheimnisvolle Held der zauberhaften "Sternenschweif"-Welt. Zusammen mit Laura erlebt es fantasievolle Abenteuer und aufregende Geschichten, die viel Platz zum Träumen lassen. Das große Treffen der Hüter der Einhorngeheimnisse steht bevor. Laura und Sternenschweif freuen sich schon sehr darauf, andere... Read more

Lives of the Athletes

By: Kathleen Krull

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you have a favorite sports hero? If so, have you ever wondered about what kind of zany things things he or she likes to do when not competing? Have you ever wondered what the great athletes like to eat, or what they like to drink? For instance, it's a little-known fact that baseball great Babe Ruth relished the chance to wolf-down pickled... Read more

The Jazz Kid

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: August Ross

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Paulie Horvath is never going to be a good student like his brother, John, never going to follow his hardworking father into the plumbing trade, never going to ease his mother's mind by passing tests or cleaning up his room. But once he hears jazz by accident from the basement of a speakeasy, he knows exactly what he will do: learn that music... Read more

A Sack Full of Feathers

By: Debby Waldman

Narrated by: David Skulski

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Yankel loves to tell stories, as long as they are someone else's. He does not see the hurt that his stories cause, the way they spread and change. Then the rabbi hands him a bag of feathers and tells him to place one on every doorstep in the village. Yankel is changed by what happens and finds himself with his best story yet, one of his very own. Read more

Lord of the Deep

By: Graham Salisbury

Narrated by: Robert Ramirez

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

Fishing. This is it, the big time. Mikey's 13, a deckhand working on a charter boat in Hawaii. Working for the best skipper anywhere, his stepdad, Bill. Before Bill came along, it was just Mikey and his mom. Now they're a real family, and Mikey has a little brother. He can't believe how lucky he is. And... Read more

Invisible

By: Pete Hautman

Narrated by: Norm Lee

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman crafts a powerful tale of one tormented boy's troubled life in Invisible. Seventeen-year-old Doug Hanson is obsessed-with his best friend Andy, with pretty Melissa Haverman, and with his model railroad town. Doug also has terrible secrets from his past, and he isn't taking the medication his... Read more

How Dinosaurs Took Flight

By: Christopher Sloan

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Would you believe it if I told you that every bird you see-even the smallest hummingbird-is a dinosaur? Well, that's what many scientists now believe! Follow along as scientists examine ancient fossils and pose new theories on how prehistoric dinosaurs evolved into today's modern birds. Packed with exciting stories of unearthing ancient fossils... Read more

The Mayor of Central Park

By: Avi

Narrated by: Mark Nelson

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Newbery Medalist Avi carves an imaginative story full of suspense and surprises. For the animals of Central Park, life turns upside down when Big Daddy Duds and his gang of rats move uptown and take over the park. The mayor of Central Park, a squirrel named Oscar Westerwit, is determined to give the park back to its rightful owners-the... Read more

Sternenschweif, Teil 24: Geheimnis der Nacht

By: Linda Chapman

Narrated by: Anette Gunkel, Anita Hopt & Henry Dahlke

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Das magische Pony Sternenschweif ist der geheimnisvolle Held der zauberhaften "Sternenschweif"-Welt. Zusammen mit Laura erlebt es fantasievolle Abenteuer und aufregende Geschichten, die viel Platz zum Träumen lassen. Laura ist besorgt: In der Gegend häufen sich Fälle von Pferdediebstählen. Ob Sternenschweif auch in Gefahr ist? Laura und... Read more

Can Hens Give Milk?

By: Joan Betty Stuchner

Narrated by: David Skulski

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Tova lives with her family on a small farm in the famous town of Chelm, a mythical village populated, according to Jewish folklore, by fools. Tova's farm has hens and even a rooster, but no cow. Her mother, Rivka, wishes they could afford to buy a cow, so they could have fresh milk and butter every day. One night Tova's father has a dream about... Read more

True Purity

By: Hayley DiMarco & Michael DiMarco

Narrated by: Michael DiMarco

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Purity. What exactly is it? According to bestselling authors Hayley and Michael DiMarco, purity is far more than abstinence from sex or other sexual activities. It's not about rules. It's not a list of don'ts. It's not about scare tactics, teen pregnancy statistics, or warnings about STDs. And it's not ruined the moment we mess up. It goes way... Read more