Children's audiobooks

Le chevalier qui cherchait ses chaussettes - Abridged

By: Christian Oster

Narrated by: Christian Oster

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Il était une fois un chevalier qui, en se réveillant de sa sieste, s'aperçut qu'il avait perdu ses chaussettes… Pas si grave, sauf que le chevalier se posait deux questions très importantes. Un : où avaient-elles bien pu passer ? Et deux : comment allait-il, sans elles, pouvoir enfiler ses bottes pour aller délivrer la princesse ? Read more

Contes à l'envers - Abridged

By: Philippe Dumas & Boris Moissard

Narrated by: Philippe Dumas & Boris Moissard

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Une présidente de la République féministe à qui un sondage révèle qu'une certaine Blanche-Neige est plusintelligente qu'elle… Une descendante du Petit Chaperon rouge vêtue de bleu marine qui se croit plus maligne que tout le monde, et enferme sa grand-mère dans la cage au loup du Jardin des Plantes… Un enfant maltraité par son oncle et dont... Read more

Les grandes questions - Abridged

By: Agnès Desarthe

Narrated by: Sylvie Ballul

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Est-ce un crime d'être beau ? Peut-on mourir d'amour ? Est-ce qu'il vaut mieux partir en classe verte avec ou sans sa mère ? Chaque soir, Léna et Samira ont plusieurs grands dossiers de ce genre à traiter avant de s'endormir. Et certaines questions demandent une réponse urgente. Par exemple : que faire quand on reçoit un mot d'amour signé Lionel... Read more

Piper Reed Gets a Job

By: Kimberly Willis Holt

Narrated by: Emily Janice Card

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Piper Reed and her fellow Gypsy Club members are in need of a clubhouse. Raising money to buy one proves to be a challenge. Piper, being the resourceful fifth-grader that she is, launches her own party planning business and gets her first job throwing young Brady’s birthday celebration. But things don’t go as expected on the day of the big... Read more

The Last Apprentice: Attack of the Fiend (Book 4)

By: Joseph Delaney

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

""I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born."" Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts. But now a new danger is threatening Tom's world: the witches are rising and the three most powerful clans are uniting in... Read more

Tango: The Tale of an Island Dog

By: Eileen Beha

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Tango is used to the good life. He has a silver heart charm for his dog collar, a luxurious doggy bed–even specially made booties for taking walks in Central Park. But disaster strikes when Tango’s owners sail into stormy waters off the coast of Nova Scotia and the little Yorkie is swept overboard. Washed ashore on Prince Edward Island, Tango... Read more

Tricks

By: Ellen Hopkins

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kirsten Potter, Jeremy Gusk...

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestselling author delivers a gripping new work of verse that tells five moving stories that remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story—a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. Read more

POP

By: Gordon Korman

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When Marcus moves to a new town in the dead of summer, he doesn’t know a soul. While practicing football for impending tryouts, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with an older man. Charlie is a charismatic prankster—and the best football player Marcus has ever seen. He can’t believe his good luck when he finds out that Charlie is actually... Read more

The Moves Make the Man

By: Bruce Brooks

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step with twist to the left, stutter into jumper, blind pass. These are me. The moves make the man. The moves make me.Jerome foxworthy -- the Jayfox to his friends -- likes to think he can handle anything. He handled growing up without a father. He handled being the first black kid in school.... Read more

The Nine Pound Hammer

By: John Claude Bemis

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

What if John Henry had a son?

Twelve-year-old Ray is haunted by the strangest memories of his father, whom Ray swears could speak to animals. Now an orphan, Ray jumps from a train going through the American South and falls in with a medicine show train and its stable of sideshow performers. The performers turn out to be heroes, defenders of the... Read more

The Swiss Family Robinson

By: Johann David Wyss

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four sons are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island.As they struggle to survive in the wilderness, the Robinsons discover their own amazing ingenuity and courage, each of the sons utilizing his own unique nature as their adventures lead to difficult challenges.... Read more

Need

By: Carrie Jones

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Zara White suspects there’s a freaky guy semi-stalking her. She’s also obsessed with phobias. And it’s true, she hasn’t exactly been herself since her stepfather died. But exiling her to shivery Maine to live with her grandmother? That seems a bit extreme. The move is supposed to help her stay sane . . . but Zara’s pretty sure her mom just can’t... Read more

Cyrus - Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Christiane Duchesne & Carmen Marois

Narrated by: Marina Orsini

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cyrus, l'encyclopédie qui raconte est une encyclopédie originale qui offre des réponses scientifiques à des interrogations sur le monde qui nous entoure. Cyrus est un vieux savant à la curiosité insatiable. Pas étonnant que les enfants soient si nombreux à le consulter ! Il possède la réponse aux questions les plus pertinentes, les plus... Read more

The Great Gilly Hopkins

By: Katherine Paterson

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The timeless Newbery Honor Book from bestselling author Katherine Paterson about a wisecracking, ornery, completely unforgettable young heroine. 
Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's hated them all. She has a reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable, and that's the... Read more

Bridge to Terabithia

By: Katherine Paterson

Narrated by: Robert Sean Leonard

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This beloved Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling author Katherine Paterson is a modern classic of friendship and loss.Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in... Read more

Jacob Have I Loved - Abridged

By: Katherine Paterson

Narrated by: Moira Kelly

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Katherine Paterson's remarkable Newbery Medal-winning classic about a painful sibling rivalry, and one sister’s struggle to make her own way, is an honest and daring portrayal of adolescence and coming of age. A strong choice for independent reading, both for summer reading and homeschooling, as well as in the classroom, Jacob Have I Loved has... Read more

Lethal Gorilla

By: Paul Zindel

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A scientist at the Bronx Wildlife Conservation Park turns up dead, P. C. and Mackenzie are sure its no accident... Read more

Nightrise

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed "a master of edge-of-your-seat writing" by Booklist, Anthony Horowitz pens the New York Times best-selling Gatekeepers series, which includes the action- packed novels Raven's Gate and Evil Star. With Nightrise, he amplifies the suspense as an evil group strives to imprison and control the psychic twins, Scott and Jamie. Read more

Harper & Moon

By: Ramon Royal Ross

Narrated by: Ramon Royal Ross

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Still haunted by early memories of growing up in an abusive family, 17-year-old Moon can't separate himself from his past. Twelve-year-old Harper comes from a world full of love and support. Despite their differences, they become the best of friends. Just prior to World War II, they spend the summer in the wilds of Washington State, with... Read more

The Education of Mary

By: Ann Rinaldi

Narrated by: Caroline Clay

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Though 13-year-old Mary is happy to keep quiet about the secret instruction she receives at Miss Prudence Crandall's private school for the daughters of the richest families in New England, Mary's sister Sarah glories in the fuss she creates when she is openly admitted. When Miss Prudence replaces the school's white students with little misses... Read more

Dogsong

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Robert Ramirez

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Gary Paulsen's Dogsong-a Newbery Honor Book and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults-is the graphic, coming-of-age tale of a modern Eskimo lad and his consuming vision quest and harrowing struggle for survival. Troubled by changes in his Alaskan village, 14-year-old Russell Suskitt seeks the counsel of the village elder-and only dog team owner.... Read more

At the Edge of the World

By: Avi

Narrated by: Ron Keith

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting sequel to the Newbery Award–winning Crispin: The Cross of Lead—the second book in a planned trilogy—Avi explores themes of war, religion, and family as he continues the adventures of Crispin and Bear.The more I came to know of the world, the more I knew I knew it not.He was a nameless orphan, marked for death by his masters for... Read more

Strawberry Hill

By: Mary Ann Hoberman

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Ann Hoberman won the National Book Award for her sparkling poetry. Her debut novel Strawberry Hill stars 10-year-old Allie, a young Jewish girl living with her family during the Great Depression. Everyone is excited because dad has found a home to rent and the street sounds like a place filled with fun and adventure- Strawberry Hill. But... Read more

The Desperado Who Stole Baseball

By: John H. Ritter

Narrated by: Robert Ramirez

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In this ALA Jr. Literary Guild selection by John H. Ritter, a rough-and-tumble band of batsmen from a California boomtown insist they're the country's best baseball team. To back up their boast, they make a wager with the 1881 champion Chicago White Stockings. Into this high-stakes climate rides 12-year-old baseball virtuoso Jack Dillon with his... Read more