Children's audiobooks

Dressed to Steal

By: Carolyn Keene

Narrated by: Rebecca Rogers

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Dressed to Steal, hot young designer Alicia Adams is opening a boutique in her hometown of River Heights. The press is all over the event. When the big day comes, tons of people show up, but when the crowd presses forward, the store window is smashed and people are injured! Later Alicia’s most expensive dress is destroyed and her store is... Read more

Sammy Keyes and the Psycho Kitty Queen

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

All of the beloved characters are back in the ninth mystery in this popular series. This time the 13-year-old sleuth is up against a cat burglar – literally! Cats are disappearing and Sammy is finding some of them in neighborhood garbage cans – dead! Miss Kitty, a local psycho cat lady, blames Sammy. Meanwhile, there’s something fishy going on... Read more

James Whitcomb Riley

By: Minnie Belle Mitchell & Montrew Dunham

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Travel back in time to the boyhood of one of the most popular poets of the early twentieth century. Author of "Little Orphan Annie," "The Old Swimmin' Hole," and hundreds more poems, "Bud" Riley spent his childhood in mid-nineteenth century Indiana, where stagecoaches were a common sight, rope swings were the only thrill rides, and telling... Read more

The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wind in the Willows is a book for those “who keep the spirit of youth alive in them; of life, sunshine, running water, woodlands, dusty roads, winter firesides.” So wrote Kenneth Grahame of his timeless tale of Rat, Mole, Badger, and Toad, in their lyrical world of gurgling rivers and whispering reeds, a world which is both beautiful and... Read more

The Life of Robert E. Lee

By: Mary L. Williamson

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“I urge the need of interesting our children in history at an early age. From observation I find that the minds of children who study history early expand more rapidly than those who are restricted to the limits of stories in readers. While teaching pupils to read, why not fix in their minds the names and deeds of our great men, thereby laying... Read more

To Herat and Cabul

By: G. A. Henty

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When sixteen-year-old Angus Campbell finds himself orphaned and his life at risk, he leaves Tabriz and makes his way to Teheran to seek employment with the British ambassador there. His knowledge of Persian, Arabic, Armenian, Kurdish, and Pushtoo secures him a post as a secretary for Mr. M'Neill. Resourceful and intrepid, he soon finds himself... Read more

Christina's Ghost

By: Betty Ren Wright

Narrated by: Carol Jordan Stewart

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this adroitly woven tale of suspense and the supernatural, Christina and her Uncle Ralph forge a reluctant but touching relationship when the young girl spends the summer in his isolated Victorian mansion. The two come together on a ghost hunt that may be linked to murders that took place in the house thirty years earlier. Read more

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

By: Hugh Lofting

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Doctor Dolittle, a little, lovable old doctor, had so many animal pets spread throughout his house and garden that patients would not come to him anymore. As a result, he became poorer and poorer.But Doctor Dolittle occupied nearly all of his time tending to his pets, and his fame as an animal doctor spread all over the world. When the monkeys... Read more

The Principal's on the Roof: A Fletcher Mystery

By: Elizabeth Levy

Narrated by: William Dufris & Christine Marshall

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The principal has promised to read aloud from the school's roof if the students read 1000 books during their reading marathon. When he agrees to read a story by Fletcher's owner Gwen, she is thrilled - until the principal starts sneezing uncontrollably as he's reading her science fiction story about aliens who live on rooftops and make humans... Read more

Out of Time

By: Carol Lynn Thomas

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

How many fourteen-year-old boys would turn down an offer of time travel to any baseball game in history? Certainly not die-hard New York Yankees fan, Matt Collier. Accompanied by the Time Keeper, guardian of Time throughout the universe, Matt becomes the batboy for his beloved team and tries to change the outcome of the 1960 World Series, the... Read more

Der Regenbogenfisch kehrt zurück (Schweizer Mundart)

By: Karin Glanzmann & Peter Glanzmann

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

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Juliette Low

By: Helen Boyd Higgins

Narrated by: Lynne Taccogna

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Share the childhood adventures of the young girl from Savannah, Georgia, who would grow up to found the Girl Scouts®. “Daisy” Gordon would rather climb a tree and ride a horse than learn to dance and sew. “There’s not one thing I can’t do that boys can,” said Daisy, and the organization she created years later proved her words.Praised by... Read more

Calendar Quest

By: Jennifer Johnson Garrity

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

What do bald men in skirts, ancient geeks, pompous popes, and bickering bishops have in common? They all took part in shaping the calendar that hangs on your wall. Together with a host of famous and not-so-famous characters, they adjusted, fine-tuned, and tinkered around with what would eventually become the western world’s most popular tool for... Read more

The Light Princess

By: George MacDonald

Narrated by: Cynthia Bishop

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a well known fact that a new-born princess will often be subject to a curse—especially if her royal parents neglect to invite an important magical relative to the christening. But never has there been a curse as charming (and hilarious) as that which befalls the Light Princess. Deprived of gravity, she can’t take anything—or... Read more

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived before Achilles

By: Padraic Colum

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Jason was born the son of a king, his destiny to rule Iolcus. But his uncle, King Pelias, who has taken over the throne, is not willing to give it up, so he cunningly persuades Jason to accept a dare to bring back the famous Golden Fleece of Colchis. Jason accepts the challenge, unaware that he is being conned into a dangerous and perhaps fatal... Read more

Elsie’s Girlhood

By: Martha Finley

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

As Elsie Dinsmore grows up, her family undergoes major changes. Her father, Horace Dinsmore, falls in love and marries sweet Rose Allison, whom Elsie has loved since childhood. Soon two new members, Horace Jr. and Rosebud, join the happy family.Elsie has grown into a graceful, accomplished, and beautiful young woman of fifteen who faces the... Read more

Eddie Rickenbacker

By: Kathryn Cleven Sisson

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker’s first attempt at flight was riding his bicycle off the roof while holding an umbrella! Growing up in the Midwest in the early 1900s, young Eddie, whose parents were Swiss immigrants, worked hard to help support his family but found time to build a “pushmobile,” experience a thrilling ride in a... Read more

What Katy Did Next

By: Susan Coolidge

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Katy was the sort of girl who might do anything next, so long as it was something exciting! At twenty-one, she was as eager for adventure as ever, and what greater adventure could there be for an American girl than a trip to Europe? Watching a Punch-and-Judy show in London…driving down the Champs-Élysées in Paris…on to the Riviera and the... Read more

Around the World in Eighty Days

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The eccentric Phileas Fogg, a distinguished but sedentary member of London’s Reform Club, takes up a wager that he can circle the globe in just eighty days—an amazing feat in the 1870s. What follows is a lively narrative recounting the journey by Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, as they overcome obstacle after obstacle to win the wager with... Read more

The Final Reckoning

By: Robin Jarvis

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The hideous spirit of Jupiter, the evil cat who was once lord of the sewer rats, has returned, more terrifying than ever. Bent on revenge for his death, he is determined to turn the world into an eternal winter of hatred. The Deptford Mice feel his chilling grasp everywhere they turn. Their allies are murdered, and the prophetic bats flee,... Read more

What I Call Life

By: Jill Wolfson

Narrated by: Grace Kelly

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When Cal Lavender’s mother has an “unfortunate episode” at the library, Cal is taken to a group care home run by a strange old woman called “The Knitting Lady.” Cal is clear that this is not her real life, just a temporary detour. But even detours can take you where you need to be. A charming, funny, and insightful first novel. Read more

Under Drake’s Flag

By: G. A. Henty

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In the days when England and Spain struggled for the supremacy of the sea, a young lad sails with Sir Francis Drake, the daring sixteenth-century privateer, in this action-packed story based on true historical events. Drake’s superb navigational skill enabled him to outrun or outmaneuver his incessant pursuers. He escaped so often and so... Read more

Born Confused

By: Tanuja Desai Hidier

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Dimple Lala doesn't know what to think. Her parents are from India, and she's spent her whole life resisting their traditions. Then suddenly she gets to high school and everything Indian is trendy. Now things are more complicated than ever. At seventeen, she's still recovering from a year-old break up and her best friend isn't around the way she... Read more

The Basket of Flowers

By: unknown

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of a gardener named James and his young daughter, Mary. Their simple, joyful life is interrupted when Mary is accused of theft. During the trial, Mary maintains her innocence and tells the truth, in spite of great pressure. But Mary and her father are convicted as thief and accomplice and begin their sentence for the crime.... Read more