Children's audiobooks

Hans Brinker

By: Mary Mapes Dodge

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the Netherlands, the beautiful land of windmills, tulips, and wooden shoes, this timeless story relates the adventures of the impoverished but virtuous Brinker family. Young Hans and Gretel work toward two goals: finding the doctor who can restore their father’s memory, and winning the competition for the silver skates. Their good deeds... Read more

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

By: David Lubar

Narrated by: Ryan MacConnell

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Dunk comes this sparkling new novel that covers a year in the life of high school freshmen Scott Hudson, who is sideswiped by the unexpected news that his mother is about to have another baby. In a hilarious and touching journal addressed to the unborn intruder, Scott bares his soul as he copes with the trials and tribulations... Read more

Patriotic American Stories

By: various authors

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording presents a series of patriotic selections of unquestioned literary merit. The stories have been chosen with special regard to their effectiveness as avenues through which young people may experience the sentiments upon which love of native land depends. Featuring iconic American heroes such as Lincoln, Washington, and Davy... 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

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

The Mixed-Up Mask Mystery: A Fletcher Mystery

By: Elizabeth Levy

Narrated by: William Dufris & Christine Marshall

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Fletcher is upset when someone tries to ruin the masked ball celebrating the opening of a new park. Everything seems to point to the young park ranger who's always getting mysterious calls on her cell phone, but Fletcher is sure she's innocent.Can Fletcher's trusty nose sniff out the real culprit? 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

The Little Colonel

By: Annie Fellows Johnston

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the prettiest part of Kentucky, an old Southern family is torn apart by tragedy. When his beloved daughter married a Yankee, the Old Colonel disowned her and has not spoken a word to her or even laid eyes on his granddaughter. The old man’s heart turned hard as stone and children fear him. Hard times have befallen his daughter, and there is... 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

Airborn

By: Kenneth Oppel

Narrated by: David Kelly

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This swashbuckling adventure is set in a world where great airships ply the skies-- and where there are unknown lands and strange creatures to be discovered. Read more

Martin Luther, the Lion-Hearted Reformer

By: J. A. Morrison

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"When a boy who has poverty for his companion is inclined to find fault with the company that he is forced to keep, he should comfort himself by reading about the boyhood days of Martin Luther—a son of poverty who by the strength of God and the grace of Christ stamped his name on every page of history written subsequently to his day."—from the... Read more

Amelia Earhart

By: Jane Moore Howe

Narrated by: Lynne Taccogna

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that Amelia Earhart built her own roller coaster before she was ten years old? And what do you suppose happened to her while she was exploring a spooky cave and sledding down a steep, icy hill? Find the answers and share all of Amelia Earhart’s childhood adventures in this volume of the Young Patriots Series.Praised by parents,... Read more

The Orphan of Ellis Island

By: Elvira Woodruff

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Dominic Cantori is an orphan. Ashamed of his situation, he avoids making friends for fear of exposing his terrible secret. One day on a class trip to Ellis Island, a tour guide asks everyone about their families. Terrified of having to answer, Dominic immediately flees from the class and hides in a closet, where he falls asleep for hours.When he... Read more

Anne of Avonlea

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

At sixteen, Anne Shirley is almost grown up. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea—and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job as the new... 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

Aesop’s Fables

By: Aesop

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Much of the richness of our language and moral education is owed to a Greek slave who was executed over two thousand years ago. Literally hundreds of metaphors, axioms, and ideas that are woven into the very fabric of Western culture—from “sour grapes” and “crying wolf” to “actions speak louder than words” and “honesty is the best policy”—all... Read more

Elsie’s Holidays at Roselands

By: Martha Finley

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight-year-old Elsie Dinsmore is enjoying a blissful Christmas holiday season with her family when a crisis arises that threatens to change her life as she knows it. Her father has made a request of her that she believes would violate her conscience, and Elsie feels she must refuse him. But he fails to see her refusal as a matter of her deep... Read more

Pollyanna

By: Eleanor H. Porter

Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Oh, Aunt Polly, I don't know how to be glad enough that you let me come to live with you!"As soon as the orphaned Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life. The sick, the lonely, and the just plain miserable all fall under her spell and are transformed—until... Read more

Secret Identity

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

Narrated by: Daniel Young

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Tired of the abuse that he's suffered because of bully Bubba Bixby, fifth-grader Nolan Byrd allows his inner super hero to emerge, inspired by a class project. Shredderman is born, and Nolan springs into action, armed with a computer, a cleverly concealed digital camera, and his own top-secret Web page, Shredderman.com. This clever story kicks... Read more

Bibi Blocksberg, Folge 50: Bibi im Orient

By: Ulli Herzog

Narrated by: Susanna Bonasewicz & Joachim Nottke

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Bürgermeister fliegt nach Labu-Dabu. Bibi und Karla Kolumna begleiten ihn. Als Gastgeschenk hext Bibi einen fliegenden Teppich. Sultan Hatschi al Nasi ist begeistert. Als dann aber ein Flaschengeist erscheint, wird er ängstlich, und Bibi muß alle Hexenkraft aufbieten, um den Geist zu bezwingen. Read more

Benjamin Blümchen, Folge 104: Die Zoo-Olympiade

By: Elfie Donnelly

Narrated by: Jürgen Kluckert & Gunter Schoß

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Stella und Otto finden, dass Benjamin zugenommen hat! Er ist empört. Doch als die Waage unter seinem Gewicht kaputtgeht, sieht er es ein. Von nun an gilt: Gesünder ernähren und vor allem viel bewegen! Aber wie kann man abnehmen und Spaß dabei haben? Ganz einfach: Alle - auch die Tiere - machen bei einer Zoo-Olympiade mit! 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 Capture

By: Kathryn Lasky

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Soren is born in the forest of Tyto, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, evil that threatens to change Soren’s life forever.Soren is captured and taken to a dark and forbidding canyon where there is a mysterious school. It’s called an orphanage, but Soren believes it’s something far worse.He and his new... Read more

Chronicles of Avonlea

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Listeners will be thrilled to know that Anne Shirley does appear in these wonderful stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. In fact, page one starts off with Anne curled up on the window seat of Theodora Dix's sitting-room, where Anne spent a fortnight of her vacation.However, most of the people who appear in this book are new to listeners of the... Read more