YA Fiction audiobooks

Milkweed

By: Jerry Spinelli

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning novel of the Holocaust from Newbery Medalist, Jerry Spinelli. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday!

He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham.

He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in... Read more

Fastback Beach

By: Shirlee Smith Matheson

Narrated by: Iambik Productions

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Miles Derkach is in trouble. Along with two friends, he stole a car and went joyriding. When the dust clears, he is all alone and his friends have left, leaving him to take the blame—and the punishment—while maintaining his silence. Placed on probation and sentenced to community service, Miles begins working for a man who after suffering a... Read more

Feed

By: M. T. Anderson

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker, John Beach, Tara Sands & Ann...

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

"This satire offers a thought-provoking and scathing indictment that may prod readers to examine the more sinister possibilities of corporate- and media-dominated culture." —Publishers Weekly(starred review)

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon — a chance to party during spring break and play with some... Read more

Stand Tall

By: Joan Bauer

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Tree, a six-foot-three-inch 12-year-old, copes with his parents’ recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school. Read more

Fat Kid Rules the World

By: K. L. Going

Narrated by: Matthew Lillard

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Troy Billings, at six-foot-one, 296 pounds, is standing at the edge of a subway platform, seriously contemplating suicide, when he meets Curt MacCrae - and emaciated, semi-homeless punk guitar genius who also happens to be a dropout legend at Troy's high school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

"I saved your life, " Curt tells Troy. "You owe... Read more

Hope Was Here

By: Joan Bauer

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A Newbery Honor Book

Food is in 16-year-old Hope’s blood. With her Aunt Addie, diner cook extraordinaire, she travels the States and hones her waitressing skills, impressing hungry people everywhere. But following the tides of comfort food dining means Hope never gets to stay in one place very long, and that's tough. 

The latest move threatens... Read more

Haunted

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Alanna Ubach

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

My name is Susannah Simon, and I am a mediator--a liaison between the living and the dead. If you think this gets in the way of my attempt at a normal sixteen-year-old, you'd be right. You try going to the mall while constantly being accosted by the undead.

Not that this is a bad thing all the time. Like, for example, when I discovered my... Read more

The Silent Boy

By: Lois Lowry

Narrated by: Karen Allen

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Precocious Katy Thatcher comes to realize what a gentle, silent boy did for his family. He meant to help, not harm. It didn’t turn out that way.

“The author balances humor and generosity with the obstacles and injustice of Katy’s world to depict a complete picture of the turn of the 20th century.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Read more

Keeper of the Night

By: Kimberly Willis Holt

Narrated by: Vivian B. McLaughlin

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“In a series of exquisitely presented snapshots, a young teen struggles to cope with the aftermath of her mother’s suicide. . . . Stunningly beautiful.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred

“Readers are drawn into Isabel’s world and her determination to keep on going in the face of her overwhelming loss and responsibilities.”—School Library Journal, Starred

An... Read more

The Princess Diaries, Volume IV: Princess in Waiting

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Clea Lewis

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth volume in the popular Princess Diaries series.

Mia Thermopolis, the 14-year-old princess of tiny Genovia, is having a hard time adjusting to life as a royal. Keeping up with fashion and tackling algebra are tough, but then there's a public debacle with parking meters. Once again, Mia's up-to-the-minute diary is a running account of... Read more

A Northern Light

By: Jennifer Donnelly

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

All of Mattie Lyon's hopes and dreams are riding on her summer job at the Glennmore Hotel. She'll make enough money to go to college in the fall. She'll prove to her father that she is responsible. She'll learn how to survive in the sophisticated world beyond her dad's brokeback farm. But all her plans fall to pieces when a young woman turns up... Read more

Stoner & Spaz

By: Ronald Koertge

Narrated by: Josh Hamilton

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft – a kid with cerebral palsy, no parents, and an overprotective grandmother – the closest thing to happiness is hunkering alone in the back of the Rialto Theatre and watching Bride of Frankenstein for the umpteenth time. The last person he wants to run into is drugged-up Colleen Minou, resplendent in ripped... Read more

My Heartbeat

By: Garret Freymann-Weyr

Narrated by: Christy Carlson Romano

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellen loves Link and James. Her older brother and his best friend are the only company she ever wants. She knows they fight, but she makes it a policy never to take sides. She loves her brother, the math genius and track star. She is totally, madly in love with James, his face full of long eyelashes and hidden smiles. “When you grow out of it,”... Read more

Lettres à son frère Théo

By: Vincent van Gogh

Narrated by: Michael Lonsdale

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Né le 30 mars 1853 aux Pays-Bas et mort en 1890 en France, Van Gogh est aujourd'hui un des peintres les plus connus au monde. L'héritage que Van Gogh a laissé derrière lui est monumental : plus de 2000 toiles et dessins, 652 lettres écrites à son frère Théodore Van Gogh dit « Théo » publiées en 1911 et en France en 1960 constitutent un... Read more

Delivering Rome

By: Donna Getzinger

Narrated by: Terence Aselford

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In Ancient Rome, on the morning of his ninth birthday, young Martial Portius races against time to find his older brother Hershal. Unless Martial can deliver an important message to him, the forgetful Hershal will likely lose his job as a Roman courier. As Martial anxiously searches the crowded streets, he learns a good deal about the people,... Read more

Tales of Terror

By: Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, Charlotte Perkins...

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham & Kimberly Schraf

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Monkey's Paw Jacobs was considered a humorist in turn of the century England, but here he gives us a masterpiece of horror. The Monkey's Paw is a Gothic tale, telling us again how wishes can go awry. The Pit and the Pendulum One of Poe's most familiar works, The Pit and the Pendulum is the first-hand account of a prisoner during the... Read more

Secret Heart

By: David Almond

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Maloney is out of place in this world. His mother wants him to be a man, and he can’t be that yet. His only friend, Stanny Mole, wants to teach him how to kill, and Joe can’t learn that. Joe’s mind is always somewhere else: on the weird creatures he sees in the distant sky, the songs he hears in the air around him, the vibrations of life he... Read more

Catalyst

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

Narrated by: Samantha Mathis

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Meet Kate Malone-straight A science and math geek, minister's daughter, ace long-distance runner, girlfriend, unwilling family caretaker, emotional avoidance champion. Kate manages her life by organizing it, as logically as the periodic table. She can handle it all-or so she thinks. Then, like a string of chemical reactions, everything happens:... Read more

At the Crossing Places

By: Kevin Crossley-Holland

Narrated by: Michael Maloney

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The second thrilling novel in Kevin Crossley-Holland's bestselling Arthur trilogy

Arthur de Caldicot has achieved his dream: He now serves as squire to Lord Stephen of Holt Castle. But this new world opens up fresh visions as well as old concerns. Arthur longs to escape the shadow of his unfeeling father and meet his birth mother. To marry the... Read more

Son of the Mob

By: Gordon Korman

Narrated by: Max Casella

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A reluctant Mafia prince . . .
Vince Luca is just like any other high school guy. His best friend, Alex, is trying to score vicariously through him; his brother is a giant pain; and his father keeps bugging him to get motivated. There is just one thing that really sets him apart for other kids - his father happens to be the head of a powerful... Read more

Lioness Rampant

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Trini Alvarado

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

At last, Alanna of Trebond has become the first female knight errant in Tortall. She sets out on an impossible quest to find the Dominion Jewel, a legendary gem that, in the right hands, has limitless power for good. But while she searches for the one thing that can save her war-torn country, her nemesis returns from the dead and begins to wreak... Read more

All-American Girl

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Ariadne Meyers

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Samantha Madison is just your average disenfranchised sophomore gal living in DC when, in an inadvertent moment sandwiched between cookie buying and CD-perusing, she puts a stop to an attempt on the life of the president. Before she can say “MTV2” she’s appointed Teen Ambassador to the UN and has caught the eye of the very cute First Son. Read more

Zazoo

By: Richard Mosher

Narrated by: Joanna Wyatt

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Zazoo is Vietnamese by birth but feels entirely French. She has lived with her adoptive Grand-Pierre in France in an old stone mill between the river and the canal since she was two, sharing poetry, adventures, and the predictable rhythms of the seasons. Then one misty October morning, a young man on a bicycle rides into Zazoo’s small village... Read more

Seek

By: Paul Fleischman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Assigned to write an autobiography, high-school senior Robert Radkovitz instead creates a sound portrait of his life as he remembers it. Looking back, he hears his mother's singing, his grandmother's mysteries, Mexican soap operas, Poe, poetry, and, most cherished, the voice of his absent father from a single tape of one of his radio shows.
Told... Read more