Children's audiobooks

The Drinking Gourd

By: F.N. Monjo

Narrated by: Patrick Collins

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Tommy Fuller accidentally discovers that his family's house is a stop on the Underground Railroad when he finds a family of runaway slaves hiding in the barn. Now that he knows, can Tommy be trusted to help his father transport the slaves in the hay wagon to the next safe haven? Read more

The Big Balloon Race

By: Eleanor Coerr

Narrated by: Bonnie Kelley-Young

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Carlotta the Great is the best lady balloonist in America, as well as Ariel's mother, and Ariel longs to ride in the basket herself someday. The thrill of Ariel's first hydrogen balloon ride is breathtakingly presented in this exciting story based on a real ballooning family of the 1800s. Read more

Thalia Book Club: Walter Dean Myers' Riot

By: Walter Dean Myers

Narrated by: Madeline Cohen

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The two-time National Book Award finalist discusses his historical novel about the New York City Draft Riots in 1863 with middle graders and teens, ages 12 and up. The event includes a discussion with the audience.

Performance playlist: Reading with the Audience by Walter Dean Myers, then conversation between Walter Dean Myers and Madeline Cohen. Read more

Captivate

By: Carrie Jones

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to Carrie Jones' New York Times bestselling Need, Zara discovers the fight to save her hometown from a brewing war isn't quite over . . .Zara and her friends knew they hadn't solved the pixie problem for good. Far from it. The king's needs grow deeper every day he's stuck in captivity, while his control over his people gets... Read more

Through the Looking Glass

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

When Through the Looking Glass was published in 1871, audiences were as delighted with the book as they were with Lewis Carroll's first masterpiece, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice, now slightly older, walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House and immediately becomes involved in a strange game of chess. Soon, she is exploring... Read more

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had

By: Kristin Levine

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry “Dit” Sims and Emma Walker are the unlikeliest of friends. Emma, the educated twelve-year-old daughter of Moundville’s new postmaster, is all wrong as far as Dit’s concerned. Dit was told the new postmaster would have a boy his same age, not a girl. But the rest of the town is more surprised by the Walker family’s color than whether Emma’s... Read more

The Chestnut King

By: N. D. Wilson

Narrated by: Russell Horton

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry’s final battle has arrived in the third book of the bestselling 100 Cupboard series, about 100 cupboard doors leading to 100 worlds of adventure!
 
Hidden cupboards behind Henry’s bedroom wall unlocked portals to other worlds that Henry and his cousin Henrietta couldn’t resist exploring. But they made one terrible mistake— they released... Read more

Boston Jane: An Adventure

By: Jennifer L. Holm

Narrated by: Jessalyn Gilsig

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Fresh from Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies' Academy, sixteen-year-old Jane Peck has come to the unknown wilds of the Northwest to be wedded to her true love, William Baldt, her idol from childhood. But her socially correct upbringing in straitlaced Philadelphia is hardly preparation for the colorful characters and crude life that await her in... Read more

A Wizard of Mars

By: Diane Duane

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In the hotly anticipated ninth installment of the Young Wizards series, Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan become part of an elite team investigating the mysterious “message in a bottle,” which holds the first clues to the secrets of the long-lost inhabitants of Mars. But not even wizardry can help them cope with the strange events that unfold when... Read more

When the Whistle Blows

By: Fran Cannon Slayton

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet a town and a train and a time and a boy—Jimmy Cannon. And meet his father—as strong as a Mallet locomotive—whom Jimmy simply cannot figure out! But who, in a dramatic and unexpected twist, turns out to be so much more than Jimmy ever knew. In a book that goes to the core of boyhood—its Halloween mischief, its hunting day mystery, its... Read more

Back to School

By: Wanda E. Brunstetter

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

And that’s where trouble finds her once again! Except this time, trouble has a freckled face and an unruly cowlick. His name is Orlie, and he seems determined to humiliate this ten-year-old Amish girl at every turn. Can anything good come out of Rachel and Orlie’s endless antics? Join Rachel as she learns life lessons about love and forgiveness... Read more

Tales from Shakespeare

By: Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This retelling in prose of twenty of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays was originally published just for children. Keeping Shakespeare’s own words whenever possible but making the plots and language easily understandable, this very listenable collection has entertained and informed generations of adults as well. With such classic stories as A... Read more

Cosmic

By: Frank Cottrell Boyce

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This isprimarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But... Read more

Steel Trapp: The Academy

By: Ridley Pearson

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Steven "Steel" Trapp has been placed in an East Coast boarding school for gifted kids by his FBI agent father. He soon discovers that there's a clubby element of the faculty and upper classmen that is very secretive and protective. To his surprise, his friend Kaileigh arrives at the school, and it isn't long before the two realize that this is... Read more

The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis

By: Barbara O'Connor

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

For her work in children's literature, Barbara O'Connor has received numerous accolades, including several Parents' Choice honors. Life in Fayette, South Carolina, is nothing but boring for Popeye. Then an RV crashes in front of his house, depositing Elvis Jewell and his five rowdy siblings on the scene. Elvis likes to make his own adventures... Read more

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

By: Jeff Kinney

Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s summer vacation—the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn.Greg, a self-confessed “indoor person,” is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg’s mom has a different vision for an ideal summer …... Read more

Don't Swap Your Sweater for a Dog

By: Katherine Applegate

Narrated by: Jared Goldsmith

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Katherine Applegate returns for another hilarious life lesson with the antics of wellmeaning Roscoe Riley. It seems everyone is winning trophies lately-except Roscoe. A dog trick contest could turn things around, but Roscoe's goofy dog can't learn any neat tricks. So he decides to trade the sweater his grandmother knitted him... Read more

The Golden Goose

By: Roberta Angeletti

Narrated by: Child's Play

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into the magical world of Child's Play fairy tales...Traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures. Retold from the originals, these lively stories will captivate readers. A Child's Play audio production. Read more

The Princess and the Pea

By: Jess Stockham

Narrated by: Child's Play

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into the magical world of Child's Play fairy tales...Traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures. Retold from the originals, these lively stories will captivate readers. A Child's Play audio production. Read more

Chicken Licken

By: Francesca Assirelli

Narrated by: Child's Play

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into the magical world of Child's Play fairy tales...Traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures. Retold from the originals, these lively stories will captivate listeners. Read more

The Little Mermaid

By: Laura Barella

Narrated by: Child's Play

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into the magical world of Child's Play fairy tales...Traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures. Retold from the originals, these lively stories will captivate readers. A Child's Play audio production. Read more

The Gecko and Sticky: Sinister Substitute

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Gecko & Sticky are a fabulous crime-fighting duo! This quartet of funny adventures will appeal to fans of superheroes both young and old, and would make terrific all-family read-alouds.

Dave Sanchez's most despised teacher, a gleeful frog dissector named Ms. Veronica Krockle, is absent. Her students are psyched! But Sticky is suspicious.... Read more

Leprechaun in Late Winter

By: Mary Pope Osborne

Narrated by: Mary Pope Osborne

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!

Jack and Annie are on a mission to find (and inspire!) creative people. This time, Jack and Annie meet an Irish girl and go on a magical adventure that changes the girl’s life—she grows up to be Lady Gregory,... Read more

Dancing in Cadillac Light

By: Kimberly Willis Holt

Narrated by: Kimberly Willis Holt

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Whenever her feelings get the best of her, Jaynell Lambert climbs into an old junker in Clifton Bailey’s Automobile Salvage and Parts and pretends to drive away. It’s the summer of 1968, and within a year the dirt road in front of her house will be paved, Grandpap will move in, and men will walk on the moon. It’s enough to make anyone wonder.... Read more