YA Fiction audiobooks

Wait for Me

By: An Na

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Mina is the perfect daughter. Bound for Harvard, president of the honor society, straight A student, all while she works at her family’s dry cleaners and helps care for her hearing-impaired younger sister. On the outside, Mina does everything right. On the inside, Mina knows the truth. Her life is a lie.
At the height of a heat wave, the summer... Read more

A Certain Slant of Light

By: Laura Whitcomb

Narrated by: Lauren Molina

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you’re dead.
Though I could not feel paper between my fingers, smell ink, or taste the tip of a pencil, I could see and hear the world with all the clarity of the Living. They, on the other hand, did not see me as a shadow or a floating vapor. To the Quick, I was empty air.
Or so I thought.

In... Read more

The Time Machine and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Time Machine, perhaps Wells' best known work, tells the story of the first time traveler. In the distant future the human race has evolved into two beings: the gentle Eloi and their dreaded cousins, the Morlocks, masters of the underworld. Ralph Cosham's performance is possibly the best narration ever of this Science Fiction Classic. Five... Read more

Dairy Queen

By: Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Narrated by: Natalie Moore

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D.J. can’t help admitting, maybe he’s right.

When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

Stuff like why her best friend, Amber, isn’t so friendly anymore. Or why her little brother,... Read more

Accidents of Nature

By: Harriet McBryde Johnson

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy and gets around in a wheelchair, but she’s always believed she’s just the same as everyone else. She goes to normal school and has normal friends. She’s never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. But there Jean meets Sara, who welcomes her to “Crip Camp” and nicknames... Read more

The Death Collector

By: Justin Richards

Narrated by: Steven Pacey

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The foggy streets of Victorian London are thick with thieves. But when Eddie “Dipper” Hopkins steals George Archer’s wallet, he has no idea that he is entering a dark world of grave robbers, assassins, and zombies.
Because George Archer is no ordinary citizen. He is the newest and youngest member of the Department of Unclassified Artifacts at the... Read more

The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs

By: Jack Gantos

Narrated by: Lisa Datz

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“I expect you might think the story I am about to tell you is untrue or perversely gothic in some unhealthy way. You might even think I’ve exaggerated the facts in order to twist this book into a modern-day metaphor on the exploitation of human creation, as did Mary Shelley with Frankenstein. Maybe you’ll think I’m trying to spook you with a... Read more

School's Out--Forever - Abridged

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Valentina de Angelis

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this eagerly awaited follow-up, brave bird-kid Max and her flock are discovered by an FBI agent and forced to go to "school." There is no such thing as an ordinary day as Max deciphers how and when she's supposed to save the world, and she faces her greatest enemy--a clone of herself.  Read more

Rebel Angels

By: Libba Bray

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in the critically acclaimed New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, an exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and Going Bovine.

Ah, Christmas! Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy, spending time with her friends in the city,... Read more

Heat

By: Mike Lupica

Narrated by: Paolo Andino

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael’s only family is his seventeen-year-old brother Carlos. If Social Services hears of their situation, they will be separated... Read more

King Dork

By: Frank Portman

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

As John Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars said, “King Dork will rock your world.” The cult favorite from Frank Portman, aka Dr. Frank of the Mr. T. Experience, is a book like nothing ever done before--King Dork literally has something for everyone: At least a half-dozen mysteries, love, mistaken identity, girls,... Read more

Bang!

By: Sharon G. Flake

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Mann lost his younger brother, Jason, two years ago–an innocent bystander in a shooting on his own porch. These murders are a frequent occurrence in Mann’s neighborhood. They’re so common, in fact, that he and his best friend, Kee-lee, keep a running tally of all the deceased, since no one else seems to be paying attention. Even that is not... Read more

Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

By: Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Narrated by: Robert Ramirez

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults, 2005
–Young Adult Library Services Association

A young adult novel Latino-style–the year is 1969. America is at war, “Hollywood” is a dirt-poor Chicano barrio in small town America, and Sammy and Juliana, about to head into their senior year, are in love.

Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood is a Chicano ode to... Read more

Born to Rock

By: Gordon Korman

Narrated by: Billy Hammond

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Caraway-high school senior, president of the Young Republicans club, 4.0 GPA, future Harvard student-had his entire future perfectly planned out. That was, until the X factor. As in Marion X. McMurphy, aka King Maggot, the lead singer of Purge, the most popular, most destructive band punk rock has ever seen. He's also Leo's biological... Read more

The Princess Diaries, Volume VII: Party Princess

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Clea Lewis

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Princesses just want to have fun.
This spring, Mia’s determined to have a good time, despite the fact that the student government over which she presides is suddenly broke. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it) Grandmère has an elaborate scheme to simultaneously raise money, catapult Mia to theatrical fame, and link her... Read more

Fly on the Wall

By: E. Lockhart

Narrated by: Caitlin Greer

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

At the Manhattan High School for the Arts, where everyone is “different” and everyone is “special,” Gretchen Yee feels ordinary. She’s the kind of girl who sits alone at lunch, drawing pictures of Spider-Man, so that she won’t have to talk to anyone; who has a crush on Titus but won’t do anything about it; who has no one to hang out with when... Read more

The Tenth Power

By: Kate Constable

Narrated by: Lina Patel

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Calwyn used to be exceptional. She was the most talented of all the chanters of Tremaris, and she’d fought hard to become their leader. But then there was an accident, and the magic inside her went silent. Where there once was power, now there is nothing. Her whole life–the future she had planned with Darrow–has somehow slipped away.
All Calwyn... Read more

A Brief Chapter In My Impossible Life

By: Dana Reinhardt

Narrated by: Mandy Siegfried

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Simone’s starting her junior year in high school. Her mom’s a lawyer for the ACLU, her dad’s a political cartoonist, so she’s grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign petitions for worthy causes. She’s got a terrific younger brother and amazing friends. And she’s got a secret crush on a really smart and funny guy–who... Read more

The Water Mirror

By: Kai Meyer

Narrated by: Toby Longworth

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In Venice, magic is not unusual. Merle is apprenticed to a magic mirror maker, and Serafin–a boy who was once a master thief–works for a weaver of magic cloth. Now, Venice is under siege by the Egyptian Empire; its terrifying mummy warriors and flying sunbarks are waiting to strike. All that protects the Venetians is the Flowing Queen. Nobody... Read more

So Yesterday

By: Scott Westerfeld

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

We are all around you.
You don’t think about us much, because we are invisible. Well, not exactly invisible. A lot of us have hair dyed in four colors, or wear five-inch platform sneakers, or carry enough metal in our skin that it’s a hassle getting on an airplane. Quite visible, actually, come to think of it.
But we don’t wear signs saying what... Read more

The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp

By: Rick Yancey

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Alfred Kropp was just trying to survive high school when his guardian uncle gets him roped into a suspicious get-rich-quick scheme that changes his life forever: stealing Excalibur—the legendary sword of King Arthur. But after Alfred unwittingly delivers the sword into the hands of a man with enormously evil intentions, he sets off on an... Read more

Small Steps

By: Louis Sachar

Narrated by: McClarin, Curtis

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The young adult follow-up to the bestselling Newbery Award book and movie sensation, Holes.

 Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it's hard when you have a record and everyone expects the worst from you. The only person who believe in Armpit is Ginny, his... Read more

Born Confused

By: Tanuja Desai Hidier

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Dimple Lala doesn't know what to think. Her parents are from India, and she's spent her whole life resisting their traditions. Then suddenly she gets to high school and everything Indian is trendy. Now things are more complicated than ever. At seventeen, she's still recovering from a year-old break up and her best friend isn't around the way she... Read more

Avalon High

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Debra Wiseman

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

I recognized him at once–not just because he was so tall, and there aren’t a lot of guys who are taller than me, but also because he had such a distinctive face. Not handsome, really. But attractive. And nice. And strong-looking.
The weirdest part was, he seemed to recognize me, too, even though he could only have seen me for, like, five seconds... Read more