YA Fiction audiobooks

Kidnapped

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Published in 1886, the same year as Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped is one of Stevenson's most enduringly popular novels. At its center is a historical event: the murder of Colin Campbell, the 'Red Fox' of Glenure in Scotland. David Balfour, whose father dies leaving him with nothing to live on, goes to live with a cruel and miserly uncle. The... Read more

Adventures of Odysseus & The Tale of Troy

By: Padraic Colum

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Iliad are retold in a glorious saga of courage and magical adventure. Written in a manner that will delight both young and old, this is a great way to learn the immortal epics of Homer. Read more

Los Tres Mosqueteros - Abridged

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Carlos Zambrano

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Todos para uno y uno para todos". Las aventuras de los tres mosqueteros del rey, Atos, Portos y Aramis y su amigo D'Artagnan, en su busqueda de arreglar el problema del collar de la reina y de su antagonismo contra los guardias del Cardenal Richelieu, son la base de una serie de obras de Dumas, padre, en las cuales el espiritu de aventura se... Read more

Call it Courage

By: Armstrong Sperry

Narrated by: Lou Diamond Phillips

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Mafatu's name means "Stout Heart," but his people call him a coward. Ever since the sea took his mother's life and spared his own, he has lived with deep fear. And even though his father is the Great Chief of Hikueru–an island whose seafaring people worship courage–he is terrified, and consequently, he is severely scorned.

By the time he is... Read more

The River

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Peter Coyote

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The government sends Brian back to the Canadian wilderness in this beloved follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen!
 
Two years after Brian Robeson survived fifty-four days alone in the Canadian wilderness, the government wants him to head back so they can learn what he did to stay... Read more

Crazy Lady

By: Jane Leslie Conly

Narrated by: Ed Begley, Jr.

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Increasingly alienated from his widowed father, Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts: Maxine, an alcoholic prone to outrageous behavior, and Ronald, her retarded son. But when a social service agency tries to put Ronald into a special home, Vernon fights against the move.

1994 Newbery Honor Book
Notable Children's Books... Read more

Soldier's Heart

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: George Wendt

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Gary Paulsen introduces readers to Charley Goddard in his latest novel, Soldier's Heart.  Charley goes to war a boy, and returns a changed man, crippled by what he has seen.  In this captivating tale Paulsen vividly shows readers the turmoil of war through one boy's eyes and one boy's heart, and gives a voice to all the anonymous young men who... Read more

Brian's Return

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Peter Coyote

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian returns to the wilderness to discover where he truly belongs in this follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen!
 
As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary... Read more

A Separate Peace - Abridged

By: John Knowles

Narrated by: Matthew Modine

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual.  Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete.  What happened between them at school one summer  during the early years of World War II is the  subject of A Separate Peace. A  great bestseller for over thirty years--one of the  most starkly moving parables ever written of the  dark forces that... Read more

Canyons - Abridged

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Peter Coyote

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Two boys, separated by the canyons of time and two vastly different cultures, face the challenges by which they will become men.
Coyote Runs, an Apache boy, takes part in his first raid. But he is to be a man for only a short time.
More than a hundred years later, while camping near Dog Canyon, 15-year-old Brennan Cole becomes obsessed with a... Read more

The Dark Frigate - Abridged

By: Charles Boardman Hawes

Narrated by: Dominick Allen

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In seventeenth century England, a terrible accident forces orphaned Philip Marsham to flee London in fear for his life. Bred to the sea, he signs on with the "Rose of Devon," a dark frigate bound for the quiet shores of Newfoundland.

Philip's bold spirit and knowledge of the sea soon win him his captain's regard. But when the "Rose of Devon" is... Read more

Catherine Called Birdy - Abridged

By: Karen Cushman

Narrated by: Kate Maberly

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

An abridged audiobook of the historical fiction classic, a Newbery Honor Book.
 
Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man—any rich man, no matter how awful.

But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to... Read more

The Midwife's Apprentice - Abridged

By: Karen Cushman

Narrated by: Charlotte Coleman

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On a frosty morning sometime in the fourteenth century, in a village somewhere in England, a gift known only as Brat was sleeping in a dung heap.

"You, girl. Are you alive or dead?"

When she opened her eyes, she saw an important-looking woman with a sharp glance and a sharp nose and a wimple starched into sharp pleats. This woman was Jane the... Read more

Kit's Wilderness

By: David Almond

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Printz Award–winning classic gets a new look.

Written in haunting, lyrical prose, Kit’s Wilderness examines the bonds of family from one generation to the next, and explores how meaning and beauty can be revealed from the depths of darkness.

The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town, to care for Kit’s recently widowed... Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This performance was awarded Audio Best of the Year.-- Publishers Weekly Jim Hawkins and his mother unlock a sea chest belonging to Billy Bones, an old sea captain who died while staying at their inn. Inside the chest was a logbook and map. Thus begins one of the greatest adventures of all time. Once again come aboard the Hispaniola in search... Read more

The Hundred And One Dalmatians

By: Dodie Smith

Narrated by: Brenda Blethyn, Full Cast & Patricia Hodge

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Patricia Hodge stars as Cruella de Vil in this full-cast dramatisation of the much-loved story. Pongo lives happily with his human pets Mr. and Mrs. Dearly in a large house in Regent's Park. When his wife Missis produces a litter of 15 beautiful pups, life seems wonderfully complete. But the mysterious disappearance of the puppies suddenly... Read more

Spider-Man: The Lizard Sanction - Abridged

By: Diane Duane

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A multi-voice, fully dramatized recording -- enhanced with dazzling sound effects
Experience Spider-Man as never before!
The amazing Spider-Man launches into his most harrowing adventure as a trip to Florida turns into a deadly race to prevent disaster! The Lizard is wreaking havoc throughout the Everglades, as he seeks a cure for his dual... Read more

The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror

By: Daniel Pinkwater

Narrated by: Daniel Pinkwater

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Snarkout Boys are back with a wackier-than-ever tale! This time there' s a monster on the loose in Baconburg, and the teens are caught in the middle of all the happenings— from the silly to the sillier. High school sophomores Waiter Gait, Winston Bongo, and Rat Matthews take time off from their nightly "snarking"... Read more

The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death

By: Daniel Pinkwater

Narrated by: Daniel Pinkwater

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Combine a crime, a criminal, a fat man in a fez, and a guy named "Chicken Man," and you get a zany sci-fi adventure that defies gravity. As Wizard of Comedy Daniel M. Pinkwater transports the Snarkout Boys and the Rat through the tunnel under North Aufzoo Street to the warmth of Beanbenders, you'll meet some strange characters and learn much... Read more

Far from Home - Abridged

By: Ron Fontes, Justine Korman & Phillip Borsos

Narrated by: Mimi Rogers

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Yellow Dog saved a boy from drowning, he became a canine hero. But now dog and boy are in danger again, alone in the wilderness after a boat trip separates them from the boy's father and leaves them stranded in the Canadian wilderness. This time, it's the boy's turn to become a hero, and with a little help from this former stray dog, he... Read more

Borgel - Abridged

By: Daniel Pinkwater

Narrated by: Daniel Pinkwater

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Melvin Spellbound's humdrum life suddenly becomes extraordinary when 111-year-old Borgel arrives for a visit. In this clever, funny, off-the-wall story, Melvin's sort of Uncle Borgel seems like an Old World refugee when he shows up at the Spellbound home and moves into their back room with 32 small black suitcases. However, his true identity as... Read more

The Lemming Condition - Abridged

By: Alan Arkin

Narrated by: Alan Arkin

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bubber, a lemming, and his family are getting ready. It is the morning of the great march west and the leap into the sea. Bubber is excited— until his friend Crow starts asking questions. Bubber struggles with the decision to participate in what appears to be an insane death walk, only to be told constantly by family and friends that... Read more

Schnuppernäschen und Zappelschwänzchen (ungekürzt)

By: Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm

Narrated by: Margit Humer-Seeber

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Hier geht es um die Geschichte von Schnuppernäschen und Zappelschwänzchen. Eine lebendig erzählte Geschichte von der Märchentante Margit Seeber, aus einer Reihe von altersgerechten Märchenhörspielen, die die kindliche Phantasie weckt und zu selbständigem Denken, Spielen und Sprechen anregt. Read more

Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse

By: Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm

Narrated by: Margit Humer-Seeber & Märchen-Spielgruppe

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Hier geht es um das Märchen von der Prinzessin auf der Erbse. Eine lebendig erzählte Geschichte von der Märchentante Margit Seeber, aus einer Reihe von altersgerechten Märchenhörspielen, die die kindliche Phantasie weckt und zu selbständigem Denken, Spielen und Sprechen anregt. Read more