Children's audiobooks

The Buccaneers

By: Iain Lawrence

Narrated by: Ron Keith

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This thrilling companion to Iain Lawrence's award-winning The Wreckers and The Smugglers plunges listeners into high-sea action and intrigue. After 17-year-old John Spencer sets out on his first voyage to foreign lands, he and his crew are wary when they come across a stranger named Horn rowing a lifeboat in the middle of nowhere. What is the... Read more

Brooklyn Rose

By: Ann Rinaldi

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Historical fiction writer Ann Rinaldi has received the ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Brooklyn Rose is loosely based on the life of her own grandmother. Rose Frampton is content with life on her family's plantation in South Carolina, but the year 1900 brings many changes for the 15 year-old. She could never imagine that she would marry a Yankee... Read more

Boy Proof

By: Cecil Castellucci

Narrated by: Carine Montbertrand

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Kirkus Reviews calls Boy Proof "an unusual, successful, appealing effort from first-time novelist Cecil Castellucci." Victoria Jurgen, who goes by the name "Egg" after her favorite sci-fi heroine, doesn't have many friends, and definitely doesn't turn the heads of any boys. But she likes it that way. That is until she meets Max, a new kid who... Read more

Summer Begins

By: Elizabeth Doyle Carey

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old cousins Phoebe, Hillary, Neeve, and Kate are spending the summer at their grandmother's beach house. They have heard stories about the Callahan-Bicket family rivalry. Now it's up to them to prove that the Callahans are the best family on the island! Fans of the American Girl books will love these spunky girls. Read more

Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers

By: Louise Rennison

Narrated by: Louise Rennison

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

No one captures the comical absurdity of teenage angst better than #1 New YorkTimes bestselling author Louise Rennison. Her tales featuring the self-obsessed yet irresistibly lovable Georgia Nicolson are an international sensation and have been called Bridget Jones’s Diary for teens.

Georgia’s parents are planning a trip to Hamburger-a-go-go land... Read more

Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

By: Louise Rennison

Narrated by: Louise Rennison

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Number one New York Times best-selling author Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson series is an international phenomenon. In Away Laughing on a Fast Camel, Robbie the Sex God (yummy scrumboes) moves to Kiwi-a-gogo land to snog sheep, leaving Georgia brokenhearted. But then a gorgey new boy enters the picture. Has the new Dream Boat landed? Read more

B is for Betsy

By: Carolyn Haywood

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

School can be kind of scary for someone who is just starting, but Betsy is trying very hard to be brave. It turns out that school is not what she thought it would be-school can be fun! She makes lots of new friends, her teacher is really nice and the classroom is bright and sunny. She learns something new all the time and throughout the school... Read more

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

By: Louise Rennison

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Several things about 14-year-old Georgia Nicolson's life are very wrong. Her bedroom smells like her little sister probably peed somewhere, but she can't find where. Angus, her enormous cat, keeps terrorizing Mrs. Next Door's poodle. Dad's gone off to look for work in New Zealand. And one of her friends has rated Georgia's nose a zero on a scale... Read more

The Angel's Command

By: Brian Jacques

Narrated by: Brian Jacques & A Full Cast

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling novelist Brian Jacques, creator of the beloved Redwall books and one of the most popular children's authors in the world, delivers the second rousing escapade from his Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. This time around, the immortal Ben and Ned are high in the Pyrenees Mountains, where they make new allies and... Read more

Betrayal at Cross Creek

By: Kathleen Ernst

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Having fled the turmoil of Scotland, Elspeth Monro is learning to love her life in 1775 North Carolina. She likes her new friend and her weaving apprenticeship. But as Loyalists and Patriots strive to recruit her neighbors, a shadowy figure threatens her family. Davina Porter's nuanced narration highlights the polished prose of Kathleen Ernst,... Read more

Anne of the Island

By: L.M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne of Green Gables, the story of a mischievous, carrot-topped waif, is beloved by generations. Now Anne has grown into a lovely young woman. Leaving
the tranquility of her home on Prince Edward Island, she begins a new life on the mainland as a freshman at Redmond College.

Will she be ready for the challenge of a cranky professor who thinks... Read more

Betsy and the Boys

By: Carolyn Haywood

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Carolyn Haywood's Betsy series has become a timeless classic. She cleverly depicts amusing situations in which children develop lasting relationships including the fourth-grade adventures of Betsy and Billy. The boys decide to form a football team, but they have a big problem-no football! And, they have no money to buy one. They don't want any... Read more

Anne of Green Gables

By: L.M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The skinny, red-haired waif’s expectant smile brightened up the entire length of the Bright River Station platform. The only living creature in sight, she waited
patiently, her legs dangling from the pile of shingles where she sat. Matthew Cuthbert knew all too well that his sister Marilla had expected the orphanage to
send a boy, but when he... Read more

Alabama Moon

By: Watt Key

Narrated by: Nick Landrum

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten-year-old Moon has lived in an Alabama forest with his Pap ever since he can remember. Pap, a Vietnam vet, taught Moon how to survive-and how to keep away from the government. On his deathbed, Pap tells Moon that he must flee to Alaska to find others like them and continue to live free, without government restrictions. Soon though, a... Read more

The Age of Extremes

By: Joy Hakim

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

For the captains of industry-men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and Henry Ford-the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights, harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions of immigrant workers, it is a time of big struggles, with adults and... Read more

All the People

By: Joy Hakim

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

People call it "post-war," but All the People covers a period in U.S. history that features battles of another kind-from Cold War combat overseas to struggles for equality at home to learning to live with the threat of terrorism on U.S. soil. During these years, the United States began to be a nation for all its people, outlawing school... Read more

The Afterlife

By: Gary Soto

Narrated by: Robert Ramirez

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Adept at portraying Latino teenage culture, author Gary Soto has won many honors, including an ALA Best Book Award for his young adult novels. After an East Fresno student is murdered, his mind leaves his body. Now he must get used to being an invisible spirit-one who watches his friends and family deal with his death. Read more

An American Plague

By: Jim Murphy

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Newbery Honor and Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor recipient Jim Murphy has written numerous stories based on historical events, such as The Boys' War and The Great Fire. In An American Plague, he tells the story of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. Bizarre medical practices of the time are discussed, as well as popular historical figures, such as... Read more

The Drinking Gourd

By: F. N. Monjo

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The stars of the Big Dipper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller's house, a stop on the underground railroad. Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the runaways from a search party -- or will the secret passengers be discovered and their hope for freedom destroyed? Read more

When Is a Planet Not a Planet?

By: Elaine Scott

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Q: When is a planet not a planet?

Scientists have argued for years over the answer to this question. And central to their debate has been Pluto, the tiny orb circling the Sun at the outermost reaches of our solar system. Then on August 24, 2006, a group of astronomers made a big announcement: Pluto could no longer be considered a planet.
    
This... Read more

Eleven

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Who is Sam, and what do his strange dreams mean?

The shock of icy water as a boat crashes onto rocks feels real; so does the castle high above him that is almost hidden in the mists. And what about the number eleven woven into all those dreams?

The papers Sam finds in the locked box in the attic may hold the answers–if only he could read them.... Read more

Cover-up: Mystery at the Super Bowl

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: John Feinstein

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein tackles doping in the NFL in this exciting football mystery.
 
The Super Bowl. America’s biggest sports spectacle. Over 95 million fans will be watching, but teen sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol know that what they’ll be watching is a lie. They know that the entire offensive line of... Read more

Nory Ryan's Song

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

Narrated by: Susan Lynch

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from... Read more

Loser

By: Jerry Spinelli

Narrated by: Steve Buscemi

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From renowned Newbery-winning author Jerry Spinelli comes a powerful story about how not fitting in just might lead to an incredible life. This classic book is perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Carl Hiaasen. Just like other kids, Zinkoff rides his bike, hopes for snow days, and wants to be like his dad when he grows up. But Zinkoff also... Read more