Children's audiobooks

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

Play Makers (Game Changers, Book 2)

By: Mike Lupica

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Lupica presents the second book in his NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Game Changers series!Still living large off their incredible football championship win just weeks before, Ben McBain and his crew must now prepare for basketball season. Ben is known as the best point guard throughout the league. And now that Shawn O'Brien has joined their... 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 AwardFishing. 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

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

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

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

Alien and the Pants of Doom

By: Jimmy Mars

Narrated by: Stanley McGeagh

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The parping pantpiper is on the rampage in Pete's classroom. This stinky little ickimal must be stopped and fast! Binko the alien and Pete are back in their second adventure, and this time it's a tale of killer wedgies, mouse sausages and pants aplenty. The second in this super-fun series, at the heart of which is the friendship between a... Read more

Preacher's Boy

By: Katherine Paterson

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Willful and high-spirited, exerting his independence at every turn, 10-year-old Robert "Robbie" Burns Hewitt plans to live life to the fullest--because the world is going to end at the turn of the century anyway! The year 1900 is fast approaching. Robbie decides that living by The Ten Commandments, which have been drilled into his head by his... Read more

Kokopelli's Flute

By: Will Hobbs

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Tepary Jones leads a life of constant adventure. But he gets more excitement than even he can handle when he plays a flute he finds in an ancient ruin. Magic from the Distant Time changes him into a bushy-tailed woodrat and ensnares him in a world of danger and suspense. His parents don't realize what's happened to him-only his dog Dusty... Read more

The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore

By: Joan Lowery Nixon

Narrated by: Julie Dretzin

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Christina Lattimore's family is wealthy and powerful. She attends the best private high school. Yet Christina feels trapped by her family's expectations. Frustrated and angry at her situation, she pays little attention when a strange car follows her home one night. Its headlights are the last thing she remembers until she wakes up in captivity.... Read more

True Purity

By: Michael DiMarco & Hayley 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

Room Enough for Daisy

By: Debby Waldman & Rita Feutl

Narrated by: Priscilla Holbrook

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Daisy has more toys than she knows what to do with. In this story, inspired by an Eastern European folktale about a house that's too small, Daisy thinks she needs a bigger bedroom for all the gifts on her birthday list. Her clever mom helps her realize less is more, and Daisy decides to donate many of her things to a Mitzvah Day rummage sale. In... Read more

George vs. George

By: Rosalyn Schanzer

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

George Washington and King George III of Britain had a great deal in common-aside from sharing the same first name. Both loved to hunt and farm, both towered above most other men of their day, and both were dedicated husbands and fathers. Yet despite their similarities, they were destined to become bitter enemies. As the Revolutionary War... Read more

Lad

By: Albert Payson Terhune

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Lad, a handsome collie, rules the Place for his master and mistress. With his sleek mate, Lady, at his side, he chases away neighborhood dogs and intruders. But one day, when the master brings home a spirited young male, Lady starts to spend all her time running with the newcomer. Will Lad be able to win back her loyalty? For Lad, the excitement... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Never Say Die

By: Will Hobbs

Narrated by: Nick Cordero

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Will Hobbs' adventure novels set in the great outdoors have garnered a slew of awards, including numerous selections as ALA Best Books for Young Adults. In Never Say Die, 15-year-old Inuit hunter Nick Thrasher takes a trip downriver with his half-brother Ryan, who's visiting Canada's Arctic to photograph the caribou migration. But when disaster... 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

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