YA Fiction audiobooks

The Princess Diaries, Volume VIII: Princess on the Brink

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Clea Lewis

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

HOW DO YOU SPELL PRICESS? D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R

At last, Mia is a junior. An upperclassperson. Free of her responsibilities as student body president. So why is it that everything is going so terribly wrong? What is she doing in Intro to Creative Writing? When she has made it through Algebra and Geometry, why must she be faced with Precalculus? And... Read more

Perfect Girl

By: Mary Hogan

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruthie Bayer is stuck. Her mom is totally overprotective, her dad is nonexistent, and her best friends can’t help her now when she needs them most: Out of the blue, Ruthie has fallen in love with the boy next door, Perry. Perry has suddenly grown up and made her heart go thwang, and Ruthie has no idea what to do about it.

Then a new girl shows up... Read more

Mimus

By: Lilli Thal

Narrated by: Maxwell Caulfield

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

War has cast its cold shadow over the kingdom of Moltovia, but finally, peace appears to be at hand. Prince Florin races to join his father at the joyous banquet in the court of their former enemy, but is greeted by betrayal. Spared the dungeon that is the fate of his father and his loyal followers, he is enslaved as a lowly apprentice to the... Read more

Blood Fever: A James Bond Adventure

By: Charlie Higson

Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Following his adventures in the Scottish Highlands, James Bond is back at Eton, where he has joined the risk-taking Danger Society. Summer vacation is on the horizon and James is looking forward to the school trip to the beautiful Italian island of Sardinia, and the opportunity to spend some time with his reclusive cousin Victor.

But all is... Read more

Evil Genius

By: Catherine Jinks

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Cadel Piggott has a genius IQ and a fascination with systems of all kinds. At seven, he was illegally hacking into computers. Now he’s 14 and studying for his World Domination degree, taking classes like embezzlement, misinformation, and forgery at the Axis Institute, founded by criminal mastermind Dr. Phineas Darkkon.

Although Cadel may be... Read more

Black Duck

By: Janet Taylor Lisle

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ruben and Jeddy find a dead body in an evening suit washed up on the shore, they are certain it has to do with smuggling liquor. It is spring 1929, Prohibition is in full swing, and many in their community are involved.

Soon the boys, along with Jeddy’s strong-willed sister, Marina, are drawn in, suspected by rival bootlegging gangs of... Read more

Hattie Big Sky

By: Kirby Larson

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER

A classic YA novel about a teenage girl searching for a sense of home and family that celebrates the true spirit of independence on the American frontier.

For most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled from one distant relative to another. Tired of being Hattie... Read more

Twisted

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background—average student, average looks, average dysfunctional family. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn’t believe. His new physique attracts the attention of... Read more

Waves

By: Sharon Dogar

Narrated by: James Clamp

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Where is she? And what was she doing out on the waves that night?”

For Hal, now, this summer is different. Sure he’s spending it, as always, with his family at their cottage on the wild west coast of England. But this summer he meets Jackie, beautiful, impetuous Jackie. Lying with her on the beach while she sculpts mermaids from wet sand–it’s... Read more

The Wish House

By: Celia Rees

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard has hung out at the abandoned house in the woods during his summer vacation for as long as he can remember. But this year, he discovers that a family has moved in. The father, J. A. Dalton, is an internationally renowned artist who insists on painting Richard’s portrait, while Dalton’s wife draws the boy into her circle as though he were... Read more

The Day My Mother Left

By: James Prosek

Narrated by: Joel Johnstone

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author!
When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own... Read more

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl

By: Barry Lyga

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Fanboy has never had it good, but lately his sophomore year is turning out to be its own special hell. The bullies have made him their favorite target, his best (and only) friend seems headed for the dark side (sports and popularity), and his pregnant mother and the step-fascist are eagerly awaiting the birth of the alien life form known as... Read more

Go Ask Alice

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrate the anniversary of the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teen girl’s harrowing descent into drug addiction—as heart-wrenching, shocking, and timely as ever.

January 24th

After you’ve had it, there isn’t even life without drugs …

It started when she was served a drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game.

Within months,... Read more

Harmless

By: Dana Reinhardt

Narrated by: Lynde Houck, Donna Rawlins & Staci Snell

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive Author Interview

EMMA: Sometimes it’s easier to tell lies than it is to tell the truth.
ANNA: We could pull this one off, no problem at all.
MARIAH: You’ve told lies before, haven’t you? Everyone’s told lies.

One Friday night Emma, Anna, and Mariah, three best friends, are out doing something they shouldn’t.
Then a cell... Read more

Monster

By: Walter Dean Myers

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

BONUS FEATURE: Afterword read by the author

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I’ll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. Monster.

FADE IN: INTERIOR COURT. A guard sits at a desk behind... Read more

Wintersmith

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice * ALA Notable Children's Book“Pratchett’s unique blend of comedy and articulate insight is at its vibrant best. Full of rich humor, wisdom, and eventfulness.” —Horn Book (starred review)By the beloved and bestselling grandmaster of fantasy, Sir Terry Pratchett, this is the third in... Read more

Cupid

By: Julius Lester

Narrated by: Stephen McKinley Henderson

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When Cupid takes aim–duck!
Cupid is the god of love and a tireless maker of mischief. When he breaks out his bow and quiver, nobody’s safe. Sleepless nights, embarrassing poetry, nausea . . . What could be more fun? Only, perhaps, seeing the god of love humbled with a little heartache of his own.
With healthy doses of wit and wisdom, Julius... Read more

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party

By: M. T. Anderson

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the best of classical educations. Raised by a mysterious group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother–a princess in exile from a faraway land–are the only people in their household assigned names. As the boy’s regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house... Read more

Speak

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

Narrated by: Mandy Siegfried, Ashley C. Ford, Jason Reynolds...

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Speak up for yourself―we want to know what you have to say."

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to... Read more

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

By: Ann Brashares

Narrated by: Angela Goethals

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth and final novel in the wildly popular #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, from the author of The Whole Thing Together and The Here and Now.

With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. It’s a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena,... Read more

Monkey Town

By: Ronald Kidd

Narrated by: Ashley Albert

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

School is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. For Frances Robinson, a fifteen-year-old daydreamer with a crush on her teacher, John T. Scopes, summer vacation promises tennis, and Coca-Colas from her father's drug store. But when Frances's father, the school board chairman, has Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, the sleepiest... Read more

Samurai Shortstop

By: Alan Gratz

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Tokyo, 1890. High school can be brutal, even in turn-of-the-century Japan.

From his first day at boarding school, Toyo Shimada sees how upperclassmen make a sport out of terrorizing the first-years. Still, he’s taken aback when the seniors keep him from trying out for the baseball team–especially after he sees their current shortstop. Toyo isn’t... Read more

Miracle on 49th Street

By: Mike Lupica

Narrated by: Michele Santopietro

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Josh Cameron is basketball royalty–MVP of the Championship Boston Celtics and a media darling with a spotless reputation. He’s got it all, including something he never even knew he had: a daughter.
Twelve-year-old Molly Parker catches Josh off guard. Molly claims her mother, Jen, revealed his true identity before losing her battle with cancer. Of... Read more

Terrier

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Hundreds of years before Alanna first drew her sword in Tamora Pierce’s memorable debut, Alanna: The First Adventure, Tortall had a heroine named Beka Cooper–a fierce young woman who fights crime in a world of magic. This is the beginning of her story, her legend, and her legacy. . . .
Beka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost’s... Read more