YA Fiction audiobooks

Blue Moon

By: Marilyn Halvorson

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bobbie Jo didn't set out to buy a limping blue roan mare—she wanted a colt she could train to barrel race. But the horse is a fighter, just like Bobbie Jo. Now all she has to do is train the sour old mare that obviously has a past. While she nurses the horse back to health, Bobbie Jo realizes that the horse, now called Blue Moon, may have more... Read more

Overdrive

By: Eric Walters

Narrated by: Iambik Productions

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A street race ends in a tragic accident. Jake's friends tell him to run, but he doesn't know if he can—or should—run from the truth. Jake has finally got his driver's license, and tonight he has his brother's car as well. He and his friend Mickey take the car out and cruise the strip. When they challenge another driver to a street race, a... Read more

Inventing Elliot

By: Graham Gardner

Narrated by: Dominic Taylor

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Elliot's life has been spinning out of control. He would give anything to get back to normal. Now, at his new school, he has a chance to reinvent himself. He will make himself so cook, so out of reach, that no one will hurt him ever again. The plan succeeds beyond his wildest dreams. And then beyond his wildest nightmare.

Elliot is noticed... Read more

The Thieves of Ostia

By: Caroline Lawrence

Narrated by: Kim Hicks

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The place is Ostia, the port of Rome. Flavia Gemina, a Roman sea captain's daughter, is about to embark on a thrilling adventure. Set in a graveyard, marketplace, and courtyards of a Roman city, this fast-paced mystery paints a vivid picture of the life in ancient times.

When the dogs on Flavia's street start dying, she is determined to find... Read more

Pool Boy

By: Michael Simmons

Narrated by: Chad Lowe

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen-year-old Brett Gerson is the kind of kid you love to hate. He's smug, arrogant, rude, and filthy rich. When his dad is jailed for insider trading, his family loses everything and Brett has to face life without the mansion, the Mercedes, and his beloved $5,000 stereo. But his attitude begins to change when he's forced to take a summer... Read more

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

Out of the Shadows

By: Sue Hines

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Ro thinks her family is totally unlike anyone else's; Jodie is afraid of herself. So they spend a long time stepping carefully around the truth, hiding secrets that they know are too terrible to reveal. These shadows from the past just won't go away and in a hostile society Ro and Jodie end up with only each other - and that grab bag of feelings... Read more

Mates, Dates and Inflatable Bras

By: Cathy Hopkins

Narrated by: Amanda Hulme

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

I flopped on the beanbag next to her. I felt happy. Iz and me. Me and Iz talking about stuff and Iz predicting my future. 'What does it say, Madam Rose?' 'Oh interesting,' Iz murmured. 'Very interesting, the card that crosses you is the Wheel of Fortune. It signifies a new chapter. A turning point.' But a turning point is exactly what Lucy does... 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

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

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

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

The Dons

By: Archimede Fusillo

Narrated by: Dino Marnika

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Paul is trying to escape. He's trying to escape from an Italian heritage that just doesn't seem to have any relevance for him anymore, and he's trying to escape from his Nonno. They come from two different worlds, he and his grandfather, and Paul is more interested in his own world - his friends, the girls, the go-carts - than Nonno's strange... 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

Diving In

By: Kate Cann

Narrated by: Amanda Hulme

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Coll daydreams all the time about meeting the gorgeous bloke she sees at her local swimming pool. Then, one afternoon, he asks her out. Close-up, he's even more good-looking - but he's also very pushy. As Coll struggles to get what she wants from their relationship, she begins to wonder just how far she could go. Can she cope with a boyfriend... Read more

The Dead of the Night

By: John Marsden

Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight high-school teenagers band together to fight. Seventeen-year-old Ellie and her friends have survived the invasion, but two of their band are captured: Kevin is imprisoned and Corrie is alive, but in a coma. Homer and Ellie are determined to get them back and to continue their... Read more

Looking for Alibrandi

By: Melina Marchetta

Narrated by: Marcella Russo

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen, and in her final year of school. Dealing with her mum and the ways of her Nonna are daunting enough as she prepares for her exams. But Josie is about to discover real life gets in the way of her carefully made plans. She suddenly has to deal with having her father around for the first time in her life, falling... Read more

Came Back to Show You I Could Fly

By: Robin Klein

Narrated by: Dino Marnika

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the summer holidays and 11-year-old loner, Seymour, lodged with a fussy guardian in an inner-city suburb, is bored and unhappy in his confined world. By chance he meets Angie - beautiful, charismatic Angie. He is bewitched, and his world is opened as she takes him on unexpected holiday outings and shopping sprees. Angie, however, is not... Read more

The Other Side of Dawn

By: John Marsden

Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

With a roar like a train in a tunnel, the war enters its final days. Ellie has to be on that train. There's no more sitting around, no more waiting. There's only fast decisions, fast action, fast thinking. And she'd better get it right. With all their being, Ellie and her friends want to stay alive. But there's a war out there. And it has to be... Read more