YA Fiction audiobooks

Marcelo in the Real World

By: Francisco Stork

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear–part of an autism-like condition that no doctor has been able to identify. But his father has never fully believed in the music or Marcelo’s differences, and he challenges Marcelo to work in the mailroom of his law firm for the summer. . . to join “the real world.”

There Marcelo meets... Read more

Brutal

By: Michael Harmon

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

With her martyr-doctor mother gone to save lives in some South American country, Poe Holly suddenly finds herself on the suburban doorstep of the father she never knew, who also happens to be a counselor at her new high school. She misses Los Angeles. She misses the guys in her punk band. Weirdly, she even misses the shouting matches she used to... Read more

Everything is Fine.

By: Ann Dee Ellis

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

It is going to work.
She will be okay.
We can do it.
She is fine.

Mazzy’s mother won’t get out of bed. Her father has virtually abandoned the family. But everything will be fine . . . right? At least that’s what she tells herself.   

As listeners delve into this affecting audiobook, they’ll discover what it is that first split Mazzy’s family apart... Read more

Scorpions

By: Walter Dean Myers

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Scorpions are a gun-toting Harlem gang, and Jamal Hicks is about to become tragically involved with them in this authentic tale of the sacrifice of innocence and the struggle to steer clear of violence.This Newbery Honor Book will challenge young men to consider their own decisions as they come of age in a complex and often frustrating... Read more

Your Own, Sylvia

By: Stephanie Hemphill

Narrated by: Various

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Your Own, Sylvia draws on Plath’s writing and extensive nonfiction sources, chronicling Hemphill’s interpretation of Plath’s life from infancy to her death by suicide at age 30. The poems are arranged chronologically and each conveys an experience in Plath’s life told via the voice and perspective of family members, friends, doctors, fellow... Read more

The Dragon Heir

By: Cinda Williams Chima

Narrated by: Robert Ramirez

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The third thrilling installment of the Heir Chronicles series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima.

The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and Trinity must prepare for attack. Everyone is doing their part—Seph is monitoring the Weirwalls, Jack and Ellen are training their... Read more

Burned

By: Ellen Hopkins

Narrated by: Laura Flanagan

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised in a stern, abusive Mormon household, a teenage girl starts to question her religion and struggles to find her destiny.

Her father is abusive, her mother is submissive, and her church looks the other way. Confused and angry, Pattyn Von Stratten acts out and is sent to live with an aunt on a Nevada ranch. She finds the love and acceptance... Read more

Impulse

By: Ellen Hopkins

Narrated by: Steve Coombs, Laura Flanagan & Jeremy Guskin

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Three teens who have attempted suicide meet in a psychiatric hospital, battle their demons, and begin to heal.

The handsome son of wealthy parents, Connor has everything anyone could want—except his family’s love and affection. Jailed for years after killing his mother’s child-molesting boyfriend, Tony is confused about his sexuality.... Read more

The Fetch

By: Laura Whitcomb

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The winner of three Kay Snow Writing Awards, Laura Whitcomb pens a dark and fabulous tale sure to capture the imagination of fantasy fans everywhere. In the role of death escort, a Fetch is not supposed to step from Heaven back to Earth. A Fetch is not supposed to fall hopelessly in love with a mortal either. But Calder is a Fetch like no other.... Read more

The Secret Countess - Abridged

By: Eva Ibbotson

Narrated by: Sian Thomas

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eva Ibbotson's charming and warm-hearted tale, The Secret Countess, was originally published as A Countess Below Stairs.

Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to... Read more

This Full House

By: Virginia Euwer Wolff

Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Each discovery disturbs the arrangements of the known world, and it is our job to stay alert to all possibilities.

LaVaughn believes she is keeping alert to all possibilities. She has made it through the projects, she’s gotten over heartbreak, she’s grown up, and now she’s been admitted to the Women in Science program that might finally be her... Read more

Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

By: Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein, Cassandra Campbell, Noah Gelbe...

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Naomi and Ely are best friends. Naomi loves and is in love with Ely, and Ely loves Naomi, but prefers to be in love with boys. So they create their "No Kiss List" of people neither of them is allowed to kiss. And this works fine - until Bruce. Bruce is Naomi's boyfriend, so there's no reason to put him on the List. But Ely kissed Bruce even... Read more

3 Willows

By: Ann Brashares

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In this follow-up novel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, it's time to discover a new sisterhood. A story of growing up, friendship, and understanding yourself, about three girls enjoying one last summer before high school.

summer is a time to grow

seeds
Polly has an idea that she can't stop thinking... Read more

Tree Girl

By: Ben Mikaelsen

Narrated by: Amber Sealey

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults

Based on a true story, this novel tells the heartwrenching story of a girl in the midst of civil war in Guatemala.

In her remote Guatemalan village, 14-year-old Gabriela is known as Tree Girl for her habit of fleeing to the forest and climbing high to escape the world. When guerrilla warfare comes to her... Read more

The Boy Who Dared

By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as the Nazis are rising to power, Helmuth Hübener, a German schoolboy, is caught up in all the swashbuckling bravado of his time. The handsome stormtrooper uniforms, the shiny jackboots and armbands, the rousing patriotism all serve to draw him into this bright new world full of promise and hope. In the beginning his patriotism is... Read more

The Streets of Laredo

By: Henry W. Allen

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A wanted gunslinger is ten minutes from Mexico - with a merciless sheriff and his posse in the way. There'll be blood on the streets of Laredo tonight. Read more

Viva! Viva!

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Eli Davis

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A Caribbean hurricane smashes a revolutionary army before they can fight. Then a fearless stranger is washed ashore and leads the ragtag soldiers into battle. Who is he and why does he risk his life? Read more

Lucky Dog

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Christopher Graybill

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Hagger is a man on the run, a thief and would-be killer. He's no good on a horse, and feels miserable and out of place in the snowbound high country.But, then, Hagger comes upon a white bull terrier, abandoned in a mountain cabin, and his whole life begins to change. Read more

The Biscuit Shooter

By: Alan LeMay

Narrated by: Terence Aselford

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Should Tommy Beckworth hang for Liji Evers death? Old Man Coffee and the biscuit shooter will trick the truth out of someone. Read more

Winchester Wedding

By: Wayne D. Overholser

Narrated by: James Drury

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early 1890s, after the financial panic, Colorado is changing from mining to ranching. A local merchant, Eli, holds most of the money and the power in the county. Then a stranger arrives and starts to court the merchant's daughter - and the problems begin. Read more

The Man at Gantt's Place

By: Steve Frazee

Narrated by: Chad Pendelton

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosion almost deafened Lew. He did not hear or feel the bullet...One man stands between the ranchers and the land they need. Their first step — kill his son.Can the Sheriff and an undercover Marshall keep Lew Gantt alive? Read more

Border Man

By: Frank Bonham

Narrated by: Christopher Graybill

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A despised general, a crooked lawman and a cutthroat cattle buyer join up to double-cross ranchers along the Mexican border. Then they pick on the wrong man. Read more

Yellow Dog

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Mike Aikens

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of a gunfighter who can't draw his gun. Read more

The Oval Portrait

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Victor Garber

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The story involves a young woman haunted by the vengeful spirit of a young bride, whose soul had been trapped for decades within the woman's portrait (painted by her insane husband). Read more