Children's audiobooks

Secret Agent Jack Stalwart: Book 11: The Theft of the Samurai Sword: Japan

By: Elizabeth Singer Hunt

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the cover of darkness, a band of ninja thieves has stolen some of Japan’s most priceless treasures, including an ancient samurai sword. Can Secret Agent Jack Stalwart take on the gang before the treasures are lost forever? Read more

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By: Robison Wells

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life. He was wrong. Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive.Where breaking the... Read more

Daughters of Eve

By: Lois Duncan

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The girls at Modesta High School feel like they're stuck in some anti-feminist time warp-they're faced with sexism at every turn, and they've had enough. Sponsored by their new art teacher, Ms. Stark, they band together to form the Daughters of Eve. It's more than a school club-it's a secret society, a sisterhood. At first, it seems like they... Read more

Locked in Time

By: Lois Duncan

Narrated by: Jaselyn Blanchard

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Nore Roberts didn't ask for a new life, but now that her mom is gone and her dad is newly married, she has to settle in at Shadow Grove, the old Civil War mansion her stepfamily calls home. When she meets her stepmother, Lisette, Nore is shocked by her youth and beauty that gives her chills- and a hint of something sinister. There's hope of... Read more

The Circuit

By: Francisco Jiménez

Narrated by: Adrian Vargas

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Francisco Jim├®nez writes of his childhood growing up in an immigrant Mexican family. His narrative is simple, as from a child's point of view, but that same simplicity packs the power of a highly skilled storyteller. Beautifully and authentically rendered by actor and playwright Adrian Vargas, these twelve stories tell of the almost unendurable... Read more

Morning Girl

By: Michael Dorris

Narrated by: Eliza Duggan, Riley Duggan & Terry Bregy

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the alternating voices of twelve-year-old Morning Girl and her younger brother Star Boy, we step into the extraordinarily rich lives of an indigenous family on a Bahamian Island in 1492—just as their paradise is about to be discovered and a new world order begins to take shape.Beautifully painted in words by Michael Dorris and narrated... Read more

Road to Nowhere

By: Mark "Chopper" Read

Narrated by: Andy McPhee

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

‘This book is about my journey through the Australian prison system. You’ll have heard a few of these stories before, but not like this. It’s a step-by-step history of my twenty-three years behind bars; what day to day life was really like in jail, what I did to survive and why I’ll never go back. It’s not a nice story. I was not a nice... Read more

Pie

By: Sarah Weeks

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When Alice's aunt Polly, The Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous piecrust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo . . . and then leaves Lardo in the care of Alice. Suddenly, the whole town is wondering how you leave... Read more

Icefall

By: Matthew J. Kirby

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed author Matthew J. Kirby deftly weaves a stunning coming-of-age tale with chilling cleverness and subtle suspense that will leave readers racing breathlessly to the end.Trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen sea, Solveig--along with her brother the crown prince, their older sister, and an... Read more

The Ghost’s Grave

By: Peg Kehret

Narrated by: Charles Carroll

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

What Josh thought would be the dullest summer of his life, spent with his eccentric aunt, turns chilling when he meets the ghost of a coal miner killed in a mine explosion. Willie has been waiting years for some kind soul to dig up his leg and rebury it with the rest of him—only then will he be at peace. Josh agrees to do the grisly deed, but... Read more

Iron Thunder

By: Avi

Narrated by: Tyler Greenlaw

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

After his father is killed fighting for the Union, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll takes a job at a Brooklyn ironworks to support his family. He quickly learns that they are building an ironclad "unsinkable" ship to be called the Monitor to finally sink the Confederates' "unsinkable" ship, the Merrimac.This is a brilliantly written description of... Read more

Blizzard!

By: Jim Murphy

Narrated by: Taylor Mali

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the region of Virginia to Maine to its knees. During the next three days, the Great Blizzard raged out of control, devastating every community in its path. Through the eyes and words of survivors and victims alike, as well as the careful research for which Newbery Honor... Read more

Henry and Mudge and Annie's Perfect Pet

By: Cynthia Rylant

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry's cousin Annie wants a pet, but she can't have a big dog like Mudge, so Henry and his parents help Annie settle on a pet that is perfect for her and her more delicate tastes - a little white bunny! Read more

Peter and the Wolf

By: Sergei Prokofiev

Narrated by: Jim Dale

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Following Brilliance Audio’s recent Grammy-nominated musical-audiobook for children, The Shoebird, starring the inimitable Jim Dale, another popular children’s title is being released just in time for the holidays: Peter and the Wolf. This beloved fairy tale, with music by Sergei Prokofiev, tells of how the courageous Peter and his animal... Read more

Eclipse

By: Darcy Pattison

Narrated by: Josiah Bildner

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

KIRKUS REVIEW: "Pattison takes a complicated scientific theory and makes it not just fairly understandable, but entertaining as well."
In 1915, British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington was fascinated with Einsteins new theory of general relativity. The theory talks about how forces push and pull objects in space. Einstein said that the sun's... Read more

Escaping the Giant Wave

By: Peg Kehret

Narrated by: Terry Bregy

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast with his family would be great. He'd never flown before, and he'd never seen the Pacific Ocean. But Kyle's perfect vacation becomes a nightmare while he's babysitting his sister, BeeBee. An earthquake hits the coast and starts a fire in their hotel. While fighting their way... Read more

All Aboard at Silver Street Farm

By: Nicola Davies

Narrated by: Nicola Davies

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Some farms are up in the hills ... or down long, winding lanes ... but Silver Street Farm is different – it's right in the middle of a town!

It's summer at Silver Street and all the animals are getting very hot and thirsty. The three children who run the farm – Meera, Gemma and Karl – decide to hold a competition to see who can come up with the... Read more

Die Playmos - Das Original Playmobil Hörspiel, Folge 26: Wettrennen um die Schatzinsel

By: Simon X. Rost & Florian Fickel

Narrated by: Gerrit Schmidt-Foß, Santiago Ziesmer, Ricardo R...

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Tobi spielt mit seinen PLAYMOBIL-Welten im Kinderzimmer. Seine drei Lieblingsfiguren Sam, Emil und Liv dürfen dabei nicht fehlen. Immer wenn er das Zimmer verlässt, passiert jedoch etwas sehr Merkwürdiges: Die Playmos werden lebendig und erleben aufregende und lustige Abenteuer! Wieder einmal treten die Playmos gegen die Piraten an. Wer findet... Read more

Undead

By: Kirsty McKay

Narrated by: Amy Shindler

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When their ski-coach pulls up at a cafe, and everyone else gets off, new girl Bobby and rebel Smitty stay behind. They hardly know each other but that changes when through the falling snow, the see the others coming back. Something has happened to them. Something bad...
Soon only a pair of double doors stand between those on the bus and their... Read more

Seriously, Norman!

By: Chris Raschka

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Two-time Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka's dazzling fiction debutNow that the whole thing is over (and we all survived!), I can tell you what happened. Picture this for a second. Rock wall six inches on my left. Sheer cliff hundreds of feet down on my right, my best friend Norman in front of me, mumbling something, and my mom behind me saying,... Read more

Henry and Mudge and a Very Merry Christmas

By: Cynthia Rylant

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Henry and Mudge are back for a holiday treat . The sound effects and narration make the story come alive...Suzanne Toren voices each character with different animated tones. A great addition to the series." -School Library Journal Read more

Whirligig

By: Paul Fleischman

Narrated by: Robert Field, Lily Christian & various narrators

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

New to town, Brent Bishop longs to stroll around school with the popular Brianna on his arm. But when Brianna begs him at a party full of schoolmates to stop hounding her, Brent’s hopes are shattered. Trying to escape his humiliation, he attempts to destroy himself in a car crash—and ends up killing Lea, an innocent teen unfortunate enough to... Read more

My Brother Sam Is Dead

By: James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier

Narrated by: John C. Brown

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Newbery Honor, My Brother Sam is Dead brings the Revolutionary War to life in this contemporary classic for young adults.The classic story of one family torn apart by the Revolutionary WarAll his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother. Sam is smart and brave, and is now a part of the American Revolution. Not everyone in town... Read more

11 Ways to Ruin a Photograph

By: Darcy Pattison

Narrated by: Lauren McCullough

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

11 WAYS TO RUIN A PHOTOGRAPH: A Military Family StoryWhen her father goes soldiering for a year, a girl decides that without Dad at home, it’s not a family photo album. Though her beloved Nanny is in charge of the album that year, the girl makes sure that photographs of her never turn out well. Photos are blurred, wind blows hair in her face.... Read more