YA Fiction audiobooks

The Dead and the Gone

By: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated listeners with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event--an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of... Read more

Powers

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Andy Paris

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel: A young man tries to come to grips with his strange gifts as he sets out on a dangerous journey.

Brought up in comfort as a house slave for a great family, young Gavir can recall the page of a book after seeing it once. Sometimes he even “remembers” things that are going to happen in the future—a power... Read more

Outside Beauty

By: Cynthia Kadohata

Narrated by: Sue Jean Kim

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

There's only one way Shelby and her sisters can describe their mother: she's a sexpot. She collects men (and loans, spending money, and gifts of all kinds) from all over the country. Sure, she's atypical, but she's also more than a pretty face and nail polish -- she's confident and brave and lives lifeon her own terms. And her daughters adore... Read more

The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli

Narrated by: Roger Rees

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the fourteenth century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs. Read more

How to Build a House

By: Dana Reinhardt

Narrated by: Caitlin Greer

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

HARPER’S DAD IS getting a divorce from her beloved stepmother, Jane. Even worse, Harper has lost her stepsister, Tess; the divorce divides them. Harper decides to escape by joining a volunteer program to build a house for a family in Tennessee who lost their home in a tornado. Not that she knows a thing about construction.

Soon she’s living in a... Read more

Get Well Soon

By: Julie Halpern

Narrated by: Mandy Siegfried

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Anna Bloom is depressed–so depressed that her parents have committed her to a mental hospital with a bunch of other messed-up teens. Here, she meets a roommate with a secret (and a plastic baby), a doctor who focuses way too much on her weight, and a cute, shy boy who just might like her.
But wait! Being trapped in a loony bin isn’t supposed to... Read more

The Red Necklace

By: Sally Gardner

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The winds of change are blowing through Paris in the winter of 1789, both for France and for our hero, a striking and mysterious Gypsy boy named Yann Margoza. He was born with a gift for knowing what people are thinking and an uncanny ability to throw his voice, and he has been using those skills while working for a rather foolish magician. That... Read more

Peeled

By: Joan Bauer

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Something’s rotten in Apple country!

Hildy Biddle is a high school reporter eager to stand up for the truth. She’s just waiting for a chance to prove herself as a journalist, and yearning for a big story. The trouble is, the town’s biggest story stars . . . a ghost. Not a very easy interview!

This ghost has the town in a tizzy, and the local... Read more

Madapple

By: Christina Meldrum

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SECRETS OF the past meet the shocks of the present.
Aslaug is an unusual young woman. Her mother has brought her up in near isolation, teaching her about plants and nature and language—but not about life. Especially not how she came to have her own life, and who her father might be.

When Aslaug’s mother dies unexpectedly, everything changes.... Read more

Little Brother

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.

But his whole world changes when he and his friends find... Read more

Wicked Lovely

By: Melissa Marr

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of Sarah J. Maas and Holly Black won’t be able to resist the world of Melissa Marr's #1 New York Times bestselling series, full of faerie intrigue, mortal love, and courtly betrayal.Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their... Read more

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

By: Mary E. Pearson

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?

Mary E. Pearson's The... Read more

The Sight

By: David Clement-Davies

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 16 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The works of David Clement-Davies have been honored as Booklist Books of the Year and Book Sense 76 selections. Clement-Davies creates an intriguing new mythology for the spectacularly envisioned action of The Sight. After a pregnant she-wolf and her pack take shelter in an abandoned Transylvanian castle, they are set upon by Morgra, a lone wolf... Read more

Double or Die: Young Bond Book #3

By: Charlie Higson

Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Kidnapping. Explosions. Murder.
This is no ordinary weekend. But then, James Bond is no ordinary boy. . . .

In a north London cemetery, a professor is kidnapped at gunpoint. Then, a suspicious letter crammed with cryptic clues arrives at Eton. To decipher the deadly mystery, James Bond must take a series of dangerous gambles. Once the code is... Read more

The Mystery of the Third Lucretia

By: Susan Runholt

Narrated by: Krista Sutton

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Go a-way,” the painter snarled when Kari tried to see what was on his canvas. She and Lucas were at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the guy’s easel was set up in front of one of Rembrandt’s famous Lucretia paintings. Something in this guy’s voice gave Kari the creeps. She had no problem following his instruction; she never wanted to see... Read more

Lock and Key

By: Sarah Dessen

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning and New York Times bestseller Once and for All

Unlock your heart and the rest will follow.
 
Ruby is used to taking care of herself.
 
But now that she’s living with her sister, she’s got her own room, she’s going to a good school, and her future looks bright.
 
Plus there’s the adorable boy next door.
 
Can Ruby learn to open her... Read more

Zephrum Gates & The Mysterious Purple Haze

By: Tricia Riel

Narrated by: Tricia Riel

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Synopsis of Zephrum Gates and The Purple Haze        Zephrum Gates and The Mysterious Purple Haze is a coming of age story of a tom-boyish girl, named Zephrum. Zephrum has some powerful abilities that were bestowed upon her at a very young age. Learning to work with her innate and unusual aptitudes is part of her challenge and part of what also... Read more

Sebastian Darke: Prince of Fools

By: Philip Caveney

Narrated by: Maxwell Caulfield

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The lord of Laughter, the Monarch of Mirth–if only the bumbling 17-year-old Sebastian Darke could be a successful jester like his father. The problem is Sebastian’s not funny. But after his father’s death, with no choice but to beg in the streets, the half-human, half-elf teen sets off with Max, his father’s slightly cynical Buffalope, to offer... Read more

The Postcard

By: Tony Abbott

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

She died today.

One phone call changes Jason’s summer vacation–and life!–forever. When Jason’s grandmother dies, he’s sent down to her home in Florida to help his father sort through her things. At first he gripes about spending the summer miles away from his best friend, doing chores, and sweating in the Florida heat, but he soon discovers a... Read more

The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay

By: Rebecca Sparrow

Narrated by: Tamara Lovatt-Smith

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Rachel Hill is the girl most likely to succeed. And the girl most likely to have everything under control . . . that is, until her dad invites Nick McGowan, the cutest boy at school, to live with them. Rachel worries that this could only be a recipe for disaster, but her best friend Zoe thinks it’s the perfect opportunity for... Read more

The Sky Inside

By: Clare B. Dunkle

Narrated by: Bruce Turk

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin lives in a perfect world. Every year, a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. Every spring the residents of his town take down the snow they’ve stuck to their windows and put up flowers. Every morning his family gathers around their television and votes, like everyone else, for whatever... Read more

The Final Warning - Abridged

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Jill Apple

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her-and maybe save the planet while she's at it.

Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control government experiment. Max and the... Read more

Shadowland

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Meg Cabot is the New York Times best-selling author of The Princess Diaries series. Susannah Simon is a teenager who can see ghosts. As a bridge between the living and the dead, she gets called on to help ghosts take care of unfinished business. After she and her mother move from New York City to sunny California, Suze meets the sexiest boy... Read more

Such a Pretty Girl

By: Laura Wiess

Narrated by: Angela Jayne Rogers

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Dealing frankly with the sensitive subject of child abuse, critically acclaimed young adult author Laura Wiess' novel is "tough, darkly humorous, yet achingly vulnerable" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Fifteen-year-old Meredith hoped to never again see her father, who did something unspeakable to her. But after only three years in jail, he's... Read more