Children's audiobooks

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

By: Harriette Gillem Robinet

Narrated by: Andrea Johnson

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Pascal can hardly believe his ears. His older, run-away brother has returned to the plantation with an amazing story: President Lincoln has freed the slaves. Not only that, each newly-freed family can have 40 acres of land and maybe a mule, just for the asking. Now all Pascal and his brother have to do is sneak away from their... Read more

The New Boy

By: R.L. Stine

Narrated by: C.J. Critt

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

There's a new boy at Shadyside High School, and he's stolen the hearts of all the girls. Good-looking, athletic Ross Gabriel is the kind of guy that every girl wants to date-including best friends Janie, Eve, and Faith. They've even made a bet on which one of them he'll go out with first. Ross dates a lot of girls-and one by one, they're all... Read more

Heaven

By: Angela Johnson

Narrated by: Andrea Johnson

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Heaven is the perfect name for the small Ohio town where 14-year-old Marley lives. Or at least she thought so until the fateful day when the mysterious letter arrived. Now her life has been turned upside down. Twelve years ago Momma chose to live in Heaven because she liked the name of the town and the white picket fences and the little... Read more

The Headless Cupid

By: Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven-year-old David is about to meet his new stepsister, Amanda, who is only one year older than he is. Amanda arrives at their big old house wearing a huge tattered shawl and carrying a sharp-eyed crow in a cage. She is hardly what David expects. Before long, she introduces David to a strange world of witchcraft and the occult. At first,... Read more

Ghosts in the Gallery

By: Barbara Brooks Wallace

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Even though her family has very little money, 11-year-old Jenny loves her life in China. But after her stepfather dies unexpectedly, and her mother falls ill with a deadly lung disease, Jenny's world unravels. Suddenly she finds herself on a long ocean voyage to America--to live with a grandfather she has never seen. Jenny wonders what it will... Read more

Sparrows in the Scullery

By: Barbara Brooks Wallace

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Life has been difficult for 10-year-old Colley Trevelyan ever since he lost his mother and father in a fatal carriage accident. Most of the servants have been dismissed, and the house feels empty. To make matters worse, soon he will be living with his aunt and uncle who have never liked him. One night he suddenly wakes up wrapped tightly in a... Read more

Bearstone

By: Will Hobbs

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up without parents and without schooling, 14-year-old Cloyd is trouble-trouble to himself and everyone else. Sent by his tribe to a home for Indian boys, he is alone and half-wild in remote Utah canyons. As his feeling of isolation turns to desperation, he runs away to find even more trouble. When Cloyd is found and taken to live with an... Read more

Give a Boy a Gun

By: Todd Strasser

Narrated by: Robert Ramirez, Suzanne Toren, Johnny Heller, J...

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartbreaking novel that offers no easy answers, Give a Boy a Gun addresses the growing problem of school violence. Although it is a work of fiction, it could tragically be the leading nightly news story in any community. After a high school shooting at her alma mater, a college journalism student returns home to interview students, teachers,... Read more

Firewing

By: Kenneth Oppel

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Griffin is just a newborn bat when he falls through an underground fissure into the most dangerous of all places, the Underworld-the land of the dead. Though his father, the heroic Shade, will try to rescue him, Griffin bravely sets off on his own adventure to find the Tree that will take him home. Will he make it? This companion to Silverwing... Read more

Newes from the Dead

By: Mary Hooper

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor & Michael Page

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Green can’t move a muscle, can’t open her eyes, can’t scream. She lies paralyzed in absolute darkness, terrified by her final memory—being hanged. Is she in purgatory? Hell? Was she buried alive? An innocent woman caught up in a nightmare, Anne Green is trapped with her racing thoughts, her burning need to revisit the events—and the... Read more

George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt

By: Lucy Hawking

Narrated by: Hugh Dancy

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

George and Annie explore the galaxy in this cosmic adventure from Stephen Hawking and Lucy Hawking, complete with essays from Professor Hawking about the latest in space travel.

George is heartbroken when he learns that his friend Annie and her father are moving to the US. Eric has a new job working for the space program, looking for signs of... Read more

The Second Siege

By: Henry H. Neff

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

With the publication of his first novel, The Hound of Rowan, Henry H. Neff won a huge readership eager for more of his wildly imagined fantasy series. In this riveting sequel, Neff expands on the world of his first novel and pens a work of even greater scope and complexity. When evil forces conspire to wield the Book of Toth, chaos breaks... Read more

Bibi Blocksberg, Folge 94: Die verhexte Zeitreise

By: Klaus-P. Weigand

Narrated by: Susanna Bonasewicz & Gunter Schoß

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Bibi und Florian sollen einen Aufsatz über die Geschichte Neustadts schreiben. Dabei finden sie in der Bibliothek die Gründungsurkunde der Stadt. Doch die Jahreszahl dort stimmt nicht mit der auf dem Stadttor überein. Warum? Um das zu klären, gehen Bibi und Florian mit Karla Kolumna und Herrn Pichler auf eine Zeitreise ins Neustadt vor 500 Jahren. Read more

Sea Star

By: Marguerite Henry

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Each year along the Eastern seacoast, the wild ponies of Assateague Island are driven across a narrow strip of ocean to Chincoteague. There the shaggy, untamed ponies are sold. When young Paul and Maureen Beebe rescue a drowning newborn foal, they take her home to nearby Pony Farm. Now the foal has grown into their free-spirited pony, Misty, and... Read more

Benjamin Blümchen, Folge 112: Die Elefantenkönigin

By: Vincent Andreas

Narrated by: Jürgen Kluckert & Gunter Schoß

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin entdeckt am Abendhimmel das Sternbild des Großen Elefanten. Plötzlich werden er, Otto und Stella von dort zu Hilfe gerufen. Mit einem Raumschiff fliegen die drei zur Elefantenkönigin von Tötörözien. Sie sollen einen Streit zwischen ihr und dem Elefantenkönig von Rötötönien schlichten. Doch das ist gar nicht so einfach! Read more

The Walnut Cup

By: Patrick Carman

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Kids can't get enough of the squirrels from Patrick Carman's fun-filled Elliot's Park series. In their latest adventure, Elliot and his furry friends are eagerly anticipating the Walnut Cup-a soccer competition that has the whole park buzzing. But the choice of ball-a perfectly round walnut-proves unfortunate when it's stolen by the nut-happy... Read more

A Chair for My Mother and Other Stories

By: Vera B. Williams

Narrated by: Martha Plimpton

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic and award-winning picture book was written and illustrated by the celebrated Vera B. Williams and was named a Caldecott Honor Book by the American Library Association. ""A tender knockout . . . it's rare to find much vitality, spontaneity, and depth of feeling in such a simple, young book.""—Kirkus ReviewsAfter their home is... Read more

Cherries and Cherry Pits

By: Vera B. Williams

Narrated by: Martha Plimpton

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Bidemmi's book. Enter her world, look at the pictures she draws as she tells her stories. You will never forget her.This is Bidemmi's book. Enter her world, look at the pictures she draws as she tells her stories. You will never forget her. Read more

A Chair for Always

By: Vera B. Williams

Narrated by: Martha Plimpton

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

There are some things that Rosa just knows. She knows that she can't wait to meet her new baby cousin, due to be born at any minute right upstairs. She knows that she will grow up and move away and maybe go to college, and perhaps even become the president of the United States. And she knows that the chair—that wonderful, beautiful, beloved... Read more

Seekers #3: Smoke Mountain

By: Erin Hunter

Narrated by: Julia Fletcher

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The third book in a thrilling animal fantasy series following the epic journey of three bears, from the #1 nationally bestselling author of Warriors.United at last, polar bears Kallik and Taqqiq, black bear Lusa, grizzly bear Toklo, and Ujurak, the mysterious shape-shifting bear, learn of a place they think must be the destination of their... Read more

Friend or Fiend? with the Pain and the Great One

By: Judy Blume

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney & Judy Blume

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s the difference between a friend and a fiend?

Jake is so embarrassed by a reading circle blunder, he vows never to speak in class again. Abigail believes she can no longer trust one of her best friends. Their teenage cousins have turned into fiends. And on the perfect snow day, who jumps on Jake and washes his face in snow? And who rescues... Read more

Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart

By: Vera B. Williams

Narrated by: Martha Plimpton

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A funny book that makes you cry. A sad book that makes you laugh. A book about two sisters and their family that makes you wish you were part of it--and grateful that you are not. In short, this book is one surprise after another. The only thing that is not a surprise is that Vera B. Williams has created a wholly unforgettable, absolutely... Read more

Music, Music for Everyone

By: Vera B. Williams

Narrated by: Martha Plimpton

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Rosa's grandma is sick and must stay upstairs in bed. And so the big chair in the living room is often empty. And the money jar--in which the family saved their change to buy the big red chair and Rosa's accordion--is empty too. All extra money must be used to take care of Grandma.After school Rosa and her friends Leora, Mae, and Jenny often... Read more

Beacon Street Girls #15: Great Scavenger Hunt

By: Annie Bryant

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The BSG travel to Cape Cod for an ocean-side biking adventure complete with cryptic clues, surfing, and plenty of pirates! It’s a race to the finish as Katani tries to deal with her over-competitive chaperone sister; Chelsea struggles to keep her fun-loving team focused on the goal; and Maeve gets swept up in her biggest Hollywood moment yet! Read more