YA Fiction audiobooks

The Dream Bearer - Abridged

By: Walter Dean Myers

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers deftly draws a compassionate portrait of a boy's odyssey of self-discovery and the acceptance and empathy for others he learns along the way.
David doesn't know what to make of his father, Reuben. His older brother, Tyrone, says Reuben is crazy. But Tyrone is acting like someone David doesn't know... Read more

Handbook for Boys - Abridged

By: Walter Dean Myers

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the groundbreaking tradition of his award-winning Monster and Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers fashions a highly readable, powerful novel about the rules for success for young men, especially those navigating coming of age while Black.Share this book in the classroom, in a father-son reading group, or as a summer reading (or anytime)... Read more

How I Live Now

By: Meg Rosoff

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Every war has turning points and every person too.”

Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy.

As... Read more

The Truth About Sparrows

By: Marian Hale

Narrated by: Emily Janice Card

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Sadie doesn’t want a new life; her old one suits her just fine. But times are hard in drought-plagued Missouri, and Daddy thinks they’ll be better off in Texas. It’s tough for Sadie to give up her beloved home for this strange place, where even children clean shrimp at the cannery to help make ends meet and where people are rude to her disabled... Read more

Girls in Pants

By: Ann Brashares

Narrated by: Angela Goethals

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The third 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.

It’s the summer before the sisterhood departs for college . . . their last real summer together before they head off to start their grown-up lives. It’s the time when... Read more

Abarat - Abridged

By: Clive Barker

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always, delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won't want to put down!A journey beyond imagination is about to unfold...It begins in Chickentown, USA. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold.When the answer comes, it’s... Read more

Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

By: Clive Barker

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always, delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won't want to put down!All things in their time . . .Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of... Read more

The Door into Summer

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach—and Dan’s life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancée tricked him into taking the “long sleep”—suspended animation for thirty years.But when... Read more

Nicola and the Viscount - Abridged

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Amanda Root

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nicola could feel Lord Sebastian's heart beating. It was the most delightful feeling in the world. Surely it meant that The God liked her. More than simply liked her--loved her even. It had to! It just had to!

Miss Nicola Sparks has fallen in love, big time. The object of her dreams is the fabulously rich Lord Sebastian, he of the ice-blue... Read more

Victoria and the Rogue - Abridged

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Serena Gordon

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

VICTORIA--Growing up in far-off India, wealthy young heiress Lady Victoria Arbutnot was accustomed to handling her own affairs--not to mention everyone else's. But in her sixteenth year, Vicky is unceremoniously shipped off the London to find a husband. With her usual aplomb, however, Lady Victoria gets herself engaged to the perfect English... Read more

A Hat Full of Sky

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The second in Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic—not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this.What Tiffany doesn't know is that an insidious, disembodied creature... Read more

Stravaganza: City of Stars

By: Mary Hoffman

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Georgia is an ordinary girl, living in London with her mother, stepfather, and bully of a stepbrother, and coping with the difficulties of growing up. But her life takes a sudden change when she buys a tiny figurine of a winged horse, and suddenly finds herself swept up into the world of the Stravagante. The tiny horse becomes her magical... Read more

Amaryllis

By: Craig Crist-Evans

Narrated by: Daniel Passer

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is a powerful tale of family, forgiveness, and acceptance of what life throws in our paths - but ultimately, with its almost painful realism, this is the finest depiction of war we've yet seen for young readers." — KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)

AMARYLLIS. It was the name of the ship that ran aground on Singer Island, Florida, during a... Read more

The Wee Free Men

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book * Horn Book Fanfare Book * Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice * SLJ Best Book of the Year By the beloved and bestselling grandmaster of fantasy, Sir Terry Pratchett, this is the first in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.A nightmarish danger threatens... Read more

The Teacher's Funeral

By: Richard Peck

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1904, and Russell is 15. Though he dreams of leaving small-town Indiana to become part of a large farm crew in the Dakotas, he's forced to stay in school, where his sister Tansy has just become the new teacher. Through the autumn, Russell observes the strange goings-on in the classroom, including a fight for Tansy's affection... Read more

Norman Tuttle on the Last Frontier

By: Tom Bodett

Narrated by: Tom Bodett

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NORMAN TUTTLE IS, in a word, awkward. He falls off his father’s fishing boat into icy Alaskan waters. He quietly sweats on gorgeous Laura Magruder at the school dance. He gets himself on the bad side of Leonard Kopinski, an overgrown eighth-grader who shaves. As Norman contemplates a long and lonely adolescence on the Last Frontier, he’s sure... Read more

Hoy no me bañé (Completo)

By: Javier Allard de Landa

Narrated by: Everardo Camacho

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

El personaje principal de esta historia emprende un peculiar viaje a una playa mexicana, buscando limpiar su alma de miedos, tristeza y resentimiento, además de cambiar su zona de confort por una zona de libertad. Esta novela te invita a leerte a ti mismo(a), a vivir con valentía, a reescribir tu propia historia y a actuar, para ti. Read more

The Book of Dead Days

By: Marcus Sedgwick

Narrated by: Roger Rees

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But alchemy and sorcery are no match against the demonic power... Read more

Finding Miracles

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Daphne Rubin-Vega

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

MILLY KAUFMAN IS an ordinary American teenager living in Vermont—until she meets Pablo, a new student at her high school. His exotic accent, strange fashion sense, and intense interest in Milly force her to confront her identity as an adopted child from Pablo’s native country. As their relationship grows, Milly decides to undertake a courageous... Read more

Bird

By: Angela Johnson

Narrated by: Chantale Hosein & Kamahl Palmer

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Bird, a 13-year-old girl with a mission, has run away in pursuit of her stepfather. She's sure she'll be able to convince him to return home—to fill the hole he left in their family. And while she hides near his sister's farmhouse, she becomes entwined in the lives of three people who also have holes to fill: Ethan, whose heart troubles have... Read more

Trickster's Queen

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Trini Alvarado

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Aly’s adventure continues. . . . No longer a slave, Alanna’s daughter is now spying as part of an underground rebellion against the colonial rulers of the Copper Isles. The people in the rebellion believe that a prophecy in which a new queen will rise up to take the throne is about to be realized. Aly is busy keeping the potential teenage queen... Read more

Bucking the Sarge

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Luther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan.

As his best friend Sparky says, “Flint’s nothing but the Titanic.”

And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, “Take my advice and stay off the sucker path.”

The Sarge milked the system to build an empire of slum housing and group homes. Luther’s just one of the many people trapped in the Sarge’s... Read more

King of the Middle March

By: Kevin Crossley-Holland

Narrated by: Michael Maloney

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Thousands of knights and foot soldiers are mustering in Venice for the launch of the fourth Crusade. Among them in young Arthur de Caldicot, soon to dubbed a knight. He is thrilled to be part of this huge gathering; but all too soon the crusade falls into disarray.

War, romance, murder, family quarrels, power politics, the conflict between... Read more

Wormwood

By: G.P. Taylor

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

When a meteor strikes London, its inhabitants are devastated. It's not long before corrupt individuals start taking advantage of the disaster and, with the city lying in ruins, nothing seems certain to those who dwell there. In only they knew that, held captive and tucked away in an attic in the city, there is an angel. An angel who fell to... Read more