YA Fiction audiobooks

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen - Abridged

By: Dyan Sheldon

Narrated by: Fiona Gallagher

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

AN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION POPULAR PAPERBACK FOR YOUNG ADULTS! Now a major motion picture! Melodramatic, yet lovable Lola vies with her archrival for the chance to stand center stage at Dellwood High (ages 12 and up).

Mary Elizabeth Cep (or Lola, as she prefers to be called) longs to be in the spotlight. But when she moves to New Jersey with... Read more

A Great and Terrible Beauty

By: Libba Bray

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

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

It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence,... Read more

Montmorency

By: Eleanor Updale

Narrated by: Stephen Fry

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When a petty thief falls though a glass roof in his attempt to escape from the police, what should have been the death of him marks the beginning of a while new life. After his broken body is reconstructed by an ambitious young doctor, he is released from prison, and--with the help of Victorian London's extensive sewer system--he becomes the... Read more

Pop Princess - Abridged

By: Rachel Cohn

Narrated by: Christy Carlson Romano

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fifteen-year-old Wonder Blake and her family are trying to recover from the death of Wonder's older sister Lucky, who was about to sign a major record deal when she died. When Lucky's talent manager runs into Wonder at the Dairy Queen where she works, her life takes a dramatic turn--suddenly, despite her own ambivalence, she is the one signing... Read more

Pirates!

By: Celia Rees

Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the dawn of the eighteenth century, when girls stay home and sew while men sail the high seas finding adventure, danger, and gold. But two unusually adventurous girls--a rich merchant's daughter, Nancy Kington, and her former plantation slave, Minerva Sharpe--take to the high seas from Jamaica on a shop the crew renames Deliverance. Not... Read more

Bless the Beasts & Children

By: Glendon Swarthout

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Send Us A Boy. . . We’ll Send You A Cowboy!” is the slogan of the Box County Boy’s Camp. But for the nail-biters, thumb-suckers and teeth-grinders—the cast-away offspring of parents who are busy traveling, being divorced, remarrying, and garnering fortunes—it’s just another place to find rejection. The other campers and counselors pick upon... Read more

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Paul Scofield & (Null) Cast

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

""How shall we beguile the lazy time,if not with some delight?""

Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the WildThings Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Discseries. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloom accompanies the CD. Read more

Romeo and Juliet - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Claire Bloom & Albert Finney

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A pair of star-cross'd lovers   -PrologueRomeo and Juliet was Shakespeare's first great tragedy, a richly lyrical love story that has long been one of the author's most popular plays for performer and audience alike. Romeo and Juliet is a simple but dramatic cautionary tale about the blindness that both love and hate can engender. As performed... Read more

Brian's Hunt

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian sets out on the hunt of a lifetime in this follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen!
 
Brian Robeson has stood up to the challenge of surviving the wilderness in Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter, and Brian's Return. Now, while camping alone on a lake in the woods, he finds a... Read more

A Great and Terrible Beauty - Abridged

By: Libba Bray

Narrated by: Joanna Wyatt

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence,... Read more

Aleutian Sparrow

By: Karen Hesse

Narrated by: Sarah Jones

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Vera, a young Aleut girl who lives with an elderly couple on a larger island so that she can attend school, returns home for the summer of 1942 to visit her mother and friends. But when the Japanese launch an air attack on the Aleutian Islands, the U.S. government reacts by "evacuating" most of the Aleut population. Vera and her village are... Read more

Trickster's Choice

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Trini Alvarado

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is... Read more

The Princess Diaries, Volume I: The Princess Diaries

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Anne Hathaway

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom…

News flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo always meets her at the airport!)
Downer: Dad can't have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.)
Shock of the century: Like it or not, Mia is prime princess material.
The worst part: Princess lessons from her dreaded grandmere,... Read more

Alanna: The First Adventure

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Trini Alvarado

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Becoming a legend is not easy, as young Alanna of Trebond discovers when she disguises herself as a boy and begins training to be a knight. Alanna's skills and stubborness help her befriend Prince Jonathan and alienate his evil uncle, Duke Roger. Filled with swords and sorcery, adventure and intrigue, good and evil, this book is a rousing... Read more

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

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

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

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

Abhorsen

By: Garth Nix

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Before she went to join Sam and Mogget downstairs, Lirael paused for a moment to look at herself in the tall silver mirror that hung on the wall of her room. The image that faced her bore little resemblance to the Second Assistant Librarian of the Clayr. She saw a warlike and grim young woman, dark hair bound back with a silver cord rather... 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