Children's audiobooks

Second Chance

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 Vanishings

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

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

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

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

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

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 AviA 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, excitement, new friends … and cunning, carnivorous cats!Silversides is... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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