YA Fiction audiobooks

Waves

By: Sharon Dogar

Narrated by: James Clamp

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Where is she? And what was she doing out on the waves that night?”

For Hal, now, this summer is different. Sure he’s spending it, as always, with his family at their cottage on the wild west coast of England. But this summer he meets Jackie, beautiful, impetuous Jackie. Lying with her on the beach while she sculpts mermaids from wet sand–it’s... Read more

The Wish House

By: Celia Rees

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard has hung out at the abandoned house in the woods during his summer vacation for as long as he can remember. But this year, he discovers that a family has moved in. The father, J. A. Dalton, is an internationally renowned artist who insists on painting Richard’s portrait, while Dalton’s wife draws the boy into her circle as though he were... Read more

Chain of Hearts

By: Maureen McCarthy

Narrated by: Lucy Taylor

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

At 17 Sophie is a mess. Her best friend is dead and her boyfriend has gone. She's dropped out of school, sleeps through the day, eats all night and refuses to see anyone. Her family has had enough. They're dumping her on an aunt she doesn't know in a country town where she'll be a complete stranger. But Sophie is about to embark on the strangest... Read more

The Power of One

By: Bryce Courtenay

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, little six-year-old Peekay learns that small can beat big. Armed with this knowledge, he resolves to take on the injustices of his country, and sets his heart on becoming the welterweight champion of the world. Peekay starts to take boxing lessons, makes new friends, collects cacti and plays... Read more

Peeling the Onion

By: Wendy Orr

Narrated by: Kate Hosking

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Finding yourself in hospital, in a bed full of shattered glass, is traumatic. Coming to terms with multiple fractures and probable long-term difficulties is something else again - slow, painful, full of obstacles and questions with no clear answers. Anna is used to being athletic, popular, 'normal'. Now she feels the layers of her familiar self... Read more

Doppelganger

By: Michael Parker

Narrated by: Alan King

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

'A black tunnel began to form around me. My room started to spin. Desperately I tried to cry out but I couldn't make a sound. Then, like shattering glass, I crashed straight through the tunnel and out to the other side.' Propelled out of his safe, ordinary world, Andrew is caught in the midst of a desolate city, torn apart by vicious gang wars.... Read more

Go Ask Alice

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrate the anniversary of the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teen girl’s harrowing descent into drug addiction—as heart-wrenching, shocking, and timely as ever.

January 24th

After you’ve had it, there isn’t even life without drugs …

It started when she was served a drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game.

Within months,... Read more

Harmless

By: Dana Reinhardt

Narrated by: Lynde Houck, Donna Rawlins & Staci Snell

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive Author Interview

EMMA: Sometimes it’s easier to tell lies than it is to tell the truth.
ANNA: We could pull this one off, no problem at all.
MARIAH: You’ve told lies before, haven’t you? Everyone’s told lies.

One Friday night Emma, Anna, and Mariah, three best friends, are out doing something they shouldn’t.
Then a cell... Read more

Monster

By: Walter Dean Myers

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

BONUS FEATURE: Afterword read by the author

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I’ll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. Monster.

FADE IN: INTERIOR COURT. A guard sits at a desk behind... Read more

48 Shades of Brown

By: Nick Earls

Narrated by: Francis Greenslade

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Mother, your boy is a loser. It's possible that the object of most urgent desire thinks I'm a bird-nerd. And I suspect I might be competing for her affections with a dog she recently pashed... A few months ago Dan had to make a choice. Go to Geneva with his parents for a year, board at school or move into a house with his 22-year-old... Read more

The Gathering

By: Isobelle Carmody

Narrated by: Peter Hardy

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Outside the wind was blowing the wrong way and the world was filled with the smell of death... Something is wrong at Cheshunt. Nathanial feels it the moment he arrives. It is not the model neighbourhood it appears to be - strange things happen, despite the curfew. And soon Nathanial learns that his presence is no accident. As the dark calls its... Read more

Cupid

By: Julius Lester

Narrated by: Stephen McKinley Henderson

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When Cupid takes aim–duck!
Cupid is the god of love and a tireless maker of mischief. When he breaks out his bow and quiver, nobody’s safe. Sleepless nights, embarrassing poetry, nausea . . . What could be more fun? Only, perhaps, seeing the god of love humbled with a little heartache of his own.
With healthy doses of wit and wisdom, Julius... Read more

Speak

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

Narrated by: Mandy Siegfried, Ashley C. Ford, Jason Reynolds...

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Speak up for yourself―we want to know what you have to say."

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to... Read more

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

By: Ann Brashares

Narrated by: Angela Goethals

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth and final 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.

With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. It’s a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena,... Read more

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party

By: M. T. Anderson

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the best of classical educations. Raised by a mysterious group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother–a princess in exile from a faraway land–are the only people in their household assigned names. As the boy’s regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house... Read more

To the Dark Tower

By: Victor Kelleher

Narrated by: Francis Greenslade

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Awake and asleep, Tom has increasingly different lives. Awake he is a climber, scaling the cliffs by Tower Rock, and asleep, he finds himself in a vivid dream-world where he is the carrier, responsible for a strange and beautiful child, and forever in search of the elusive Sleeper. Tom can no longer dismiss his night journeys as just dreams once... Read more

Monkey Town

By: Ronald Kidd

Narrated by: Ashley Albert

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

School is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. For Frances Robinson, a fifteen-year-old daydreamer with a crush on her teacher, John T. Scopes, summer vacation promises tennis, and Coca-Colas from her father's drug store. But when Frances's father, the school board chairman, has Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, the sleepiest... Read more

Does My Head Look Big in This?

By: Randa Abdel-Fattah

Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The slide opened and I heard a gentle, kind voice: What is your confession, my child? I was stuffed. The Priest would declare me a heretic; my parents would call me a traitor... The Priest asked me again: What is your confession, my child? I'm Muslim, I whispered. Welcome to my world. I'm Amal Abdel-Hakim, a seventeen year-old... Read more

Beast

By: Ally Kennen

Narrated by: Jerome Pride

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the caged depths of an urban reservoir lives a monstrous creature. Its existence is unknown to anyone except the teenage boy who feeds it. Six years ago it was a vicious little baby, now it has grown enormous, and its rusting pen can't hold it much longer. Stephen has kept the Beast a secret against all the odds. He's got other painful... Read more

Samurai Shortstop

By: Alan Gratz

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Tokyo, 1890. High school can be brutal, even in turn-of-the-century Japan.

From his first day at boarding school, Toyo Shimada sees how upperclassmen make a sport out of terrorizing the first-years. Still, he’s taken aback when the seniors keep him from trying out for the baseball team–especially after he sees their current shortstop. Toyo isn’t... Read more

Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life

By: Maureen McCarthy

Narrated by: Kate Hood

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

All three girls come from the same small country town. Katrina, privileged, beautiful, and sophisticated, is the daughter of a wealthy medical family; Carmel, from a struggling farming family is overweight and inhibited, but has a gift for music, and Jude, a medical student, is the daughter of a Chilean doctor who was murdered when she was two. Read more

Circle of Flight

By: John Marsden

Narrated by: Mikaela Martin

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It is a time of profound change for Ellie Linton. Enemies are everywhere. Some come crawling over the hills others drive in and knock on the front door. Sometimes her friends are there and sometimes they are not. Ellie fights every inch of the way. But when courage and imagination are not enough, when she is trapped and helpless, Ellie must face... Read more

Miracle on 49th Street

By: Mike Lupica

Narrated by: Michele Santopietro

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Josh Cameron is basketball royalty–MVP of the Championship Boston Celtics and a media darling with a spotless reputation. He’s got it all, including something he never even knew he had: a daughter.
Twelve-year-old Molly Parker catches Josh off guard. Molly claims her mother, Jen, revealed his true identity before losing her battle with cancer. Of... Read more

Terrier

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Hundreds of years before Alanna first drew her sword in Tamora Pierce’s memorable debut, Alanna: The First Adventure, Tortall had a heroine named Beka Cooper–a fierce young woman who fights crime in a world of magic. This is the beginning of her story, her legend, and her legacy. . . .
Beka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost’s... Read more