Children's audiobooks

The Meanest Doll in the World

By: Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin

Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft are two dolls who have been best friends since they met in Kate Palmer's house at 26 Wetherby Lane. In this sequel to The Doll People, they hitch a ride in Kate's backpack and find themselves in the biggest adventure of their lives, a day at school! But when an attempt to return home lands them in the wrong... Read more

Rufus M.

By: Eleanor Estes

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved children's author Eleanor Estes has been the recipient of the Newbery Medal, several Newbery Honors, and the Certificate of Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children's Literature. Rufus Moffat, a very lively and creative boy, stars in this charming tale set in the 1910s. Rufus is seven and he has two older sisters and one older... Read more

Vive La Paris

By: Esme Raji Codell

Narrated by: Tichina Arnold

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris has just come for piano lessons, not chopped-liver sandwiches or French lessons or free advice. But when old Mrs. Rosen gives her a little bit more than she can handle, it might be just what Paris needs in order to understand the bully in her brother’s life . . . and the bullies of the world.  

This companion novel to the award-winning... Read more

Riddle of the Prairie Bride

By: Kathryn Reiss

Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Kansas prairie in 1878 is the setting for this mystery about a girl who gets a new stepmother—a woman who may not be what she appears

Ida Kate Deming lives on the Kansas prairie with her father. Once a lonely outpost, Hays City is now a bustling town where the twelve-year-old impatiently awaits the arrival of papa’s mail-order bride. Ida Kate... Read more

Through the Looking Glass

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1865, Lewis Carroll won the hearts of children around the world with a wondrous story of a disappearing cat, a mad tea party, and a croquet-playing Queen of Hearts. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland quickly became a beloved classic of children's literature, and fans wrote thousands of letters to Lewis Carroll asking him to write a sequel to... Read more

The Smugglers

By: Iain Lawrence

Narrated by: Ron Keith

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

It's been two years since John Spencer and his father were shipwrecked and nearly murdered by unscrupulous scavengers. Now the Spencers have a new ship, the Dragon, and 16-year-old John is elated to be making the new schooner's maiden voyage to London. Not long out to sea, John realizes that the captain and crew of the Dragon are not who they... Read more

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery

By: James Howe

Narrated by: Victor Garber

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

BEWARE THE HARE!
Is he or isn't he a vampire?

Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household -- a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits...and fangs! Read more

The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow

By: Kaye Umansky

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Nottinghamshire Book Award winner Kaye Umansky combines humor and a Dickensian atmosphere to bring young readers into the unlikely world of Solomon Snow. Solly's life stinks. He lives with Ma and Pa Scubbins in a rundown cottage outside of the village of Boring working as a delivery boy for their laundry service. But his luck soon changes when... Read more

Demons of the Ocean

By: Justin Somper

Narrated by: Daniel Philpott

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Vampirates is a colorful extravaganza with a wildly eccentric cast and lashings of swashbuckling adventure, punctuated with horror and old-school romance. Conor and Grace are twins, recently orphaned after their widowed father's death. Rather than being adopted by the town's busy-bodies, they decide to set sail for new pastures in their father's... Read more

Vegan Virgin Valentine

By: Carolyn Mackler

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Carolyn Mackler has won such awards as the Michael L. Printz Honor Book award and the ALA Best Book for Young Adults award for her highly acclaimed novel The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things. Virgin Vegan Valentine was a Teen People "Don't Miss This" pick. In this story, Mara Valentine is in the home stretch-in just a few more... Read more

Howliday Inn

By: James Howe

Narrated by: Victor Garber

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Not a great place to visit, and you wouldn't want to live there

The Monroes have gone on vacation, leaving Harold and Chester at Chateau Bow-Wow -- not exactly a four-star hotel. On the animals' very first night there, the silence is pierced by a peculiar wake-up call -- an unearthly howl that makes Chester observe that the place should be called... Read more

Elijah of Buxton

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He’s best known in his hometown as the boy who made a memorable impression on Frederick Douglass. But things change when a former slave steals money from Elijah’s friend, who has been saving to buy his... Read more

The Doll People

By: Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin

Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The 100-year-old Doll family—beautifully crafted china dolls passed down through four generations of girls in one American family—meet their new neighbors, the Funcrafts, a doll family made completely of plastic and delivered straight from the factory shelves.

Annabelle Doll is eight years old—she has been for over a hundred years. Not a lot has... Read more

Touching Spirit Bear

By: Ben Mikaelsen

Narrated by: Lee Tergesen

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Within Cole Matthews lies anger, rage, and hate. Cole has been stealing and fighting for years.  This time he caught Peter Driscal in the parking lot and smashed his head against the sidewalk.  Now, Peter may have permanent brain damage–and Cole is in the biggest trouble of his life.
... Read more

Stink and the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneakers (Book #3)

By: Megan McDonald

Narrated by: Nancy Cartwright

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow your nose to a hilarious Stink-fest no kid will want to miss!

Stink Moody’s class is going on a field trip to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum, and he can’t wait to see the Vomit Machine, the Burp-O-Meter, and the Musical Farts. Best of all, when he gets to the Everybody Stinks exhibit, Stink discovers that his very own nose... Read more

Rakkety Tam

By: Brian Jacques

Narrated by: Brian Jacques & A Full Cast

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Brian Jacques has millions of copies of his phenomenally popular Redwall series in print. Fans cannot get enough of the feasting, fighting, and fantastic adventures that fill every book. A horrifying creature has landed on the shores of Mossflower country,Gulo the Savage, a wolverine who is known to devour his... Read more

Triss

By: Brian Jacques

Narrated by: Brian Jacques & A Full Cast

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling story of Triss, a young squirrelmaid. She escapes a life of misery as a servant to the tyranical ruling ferret family in Riftgard and sets off to find her way to the Abbey of Redwall.

Parallel runs the tale of two young scamps, the hare Bescarum and the badger Sagaxus, who leave the Fortress of Salamandastron and set off on board ship... Read more

Shakespeare's Secret

By: Elise Broach

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This Junior Library Guild selection by Elise Broach is sure to become a favorite of all young sleuths. Sixth-grader Hero is captivated by the stories about her new home, especially the mystery of the missing million-dollar diamond and a 500-year-old necklace. As she searches for clues to their whereabouts she stumbles upon another perplexing... Read more

Snap

By: Alison McGhee

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Edwina "Eddie" Beckey and Sally Hobart are best friends. They love to jump rope, camp, and eat chocolate doughnuts with sprinkles. Eddie wears different colored rubber bands on her wrist. She nevers takes them off until the one day she finds an important reason to pass them on to Sally. Acclaimed author Alison McGhee is known for her brilliant... Read more

The Wreckers

By: Iain Lawrence

Narrated by: Ron Keith

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

There was once a village off the coast of Cornwall, England where people were so poor that they prayed for shipwrecks. They made their living by salvaging food and clothing from the wreckage. Some of them were evil and lit fires during a storm to lure ships onto the rocks. Then these "wreckers" made sure that no one survived the wrecks, so there... Read more

War, Peace, & All That Jazz

By: Joy Hakim

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history. With the end of World War I, many Americans... Read more

Wizards at War

By: Diane Duane

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Young wizards reunite to stop a powerful enemy from robbing the world of its magic as this YA fantasy adventure series continues.

Returning from their wizardly holiday, Nita Callaghan and Kit Rodriguez look forward to getting back to their normal routine. But there’s trouble brewing. A strange darkness is befalling older wizards across the world,... Read more

Voyage of Slaves

By: Brian Jacques

Narrated by: Brian Jacques & A Full Cast

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrift in the Mediterranean Sea, Ben falls captive to a band of slave traders and their leader Al Misurata. With his faithful dog Ned at his side, Ben must plot escape as the ship of scoundrels sails up the Libyan coastline toward Italy, where a trap awaits. Ruthless enemies and hard times appear around every bend, but Ben and Ned have quick... Read more

Where I Want to Be

By: Adele Griffin

Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister & Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed author and National Book Award nominee Adele Griffin is a master at capturing the difficult issues so many teens face. Where I Want to Be tells the poignant story of 18-year-old Jane and her 16-year-old sister Lily. When Lily finds her first love and grows more distant, Jane-already struggling with mental illness-feels a... Read more