YA Fiction audiobooks

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

Abomination

By: Robert Swindells

Narrated by: Amanda Hulme

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Martha, the youngest daughter of fanatically religious parents, is all too aware that her family is unusual. Taunted and bullied at school, and lonely at home with only postcards from her elder sister to keep her sane, Martha knows there has to be some other way of living. But it is only when she is befriended by the new boy, Scott, that she... 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

The Diviner's Son

By: Gary Crew

Narrated by: Michael Veitch

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Horse-breeder Christopher Mansell has lost his wife and his daughter, as well as his memory of the night they were brutally murdered. He is tormented by the thought that he is to blame. A chance encounter with a fairground diviner and his captive 'son', who is said to talk to the dead, pricks his curiosity. Although originally sceptical, his... Read more

Forest

By: Sonya Hartnett

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The forest is earth and leaves, sun and shade, feather and blood and bone. It is the old way, the true way, the wild way to live. But, for Kian, wilderness is not home. Read more

Sleeping Dogs

By: Sonya Hartnett

Narrated by: Kate Hosking

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

'We must be ruthless', Edward snarls, 'because we lead ruthless lives: you, of anyone, should understand that. This is our existence, Jordan, this house, this land, that father, that mother - there's no pity, there's no mercy, there's probably no escape. It is hard, Jordan, and we have to be hard to survive it, and the best we can do is fight... Read more

Saving Francesca

By: Melina Marchetta

Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

'My old school, St Stella's, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior Collage, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother you'll sense there's an irony there, based on the fact that she... 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

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

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

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

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

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

A Northern Light

By: Jennifer Donnelly

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

All of Mattie Lyon's hopes and dreams are riding on her summer job at the Glennmore Hotel. She'll make enough money to go to college in the fall. She'll prove to her father that she is responsible. She'll learn how to survive in the sophisticated world beyond her dad's brokeback farm. But all her plans fall to pieces when a young woman turns up... Read more

The Princess Diaries, Volume IV: Princess in Waiting

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Clea Lewis

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth volume in the popular Princess Diaries series.

Mia Thermopolis, the 14-year-old princess of tiny Genovia, is having a hard time adjusting to life as a royal. Keeping up with fashion and tackling algebra are tough, but then there's a public debacle with parking meters. Once again, Mia's up-to-the-minute diary is a running account of... Read more

Stoner & Spaz

By: Ronald Koertge

Narrated by: Josh Hamilton

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft – a kid with cerebral palsy, no parents, and an overprotective grandmother – the closest thing to happiness is hunkering alone in the back of the Rialto Theatre and watching Bride of Frankenstein for the umpteenth time. The last person he wants to run into is drugged-up Colleen Minou, resplendent in ripped... Read more

My Heartbeat

By: Garret Freymann-Weyr

Narrated by: Christy Carlson Romano

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellen loves Link and James. Her older brother and his best friend are the only company she ever wants. She knows they fight, but she makes it a policy never to take sides. She loves her brother, the math genius and track star. She is totally, madly in love with James, his face full of long eyelashes and hidden smiles. “When you grow out of it,”... Read more

Lettres à son frère Théo

By: Vincent van Gogh

Narrated by: Michael Lonsdale

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Né le 30 mars 1853 aux Pays-Bas et mort en 1890 en France, Van Gogh est aujourd'hui un des peintres les plus connus au monde. L'héritage que Van Gogh a laissé derrière lui est monumental : plus de 2000 toiles et dessins, 652 lettres écrites à son frère Théodore Van Gogh dit « Théo » publiées en 1911 et en France en 1960 constitutent un... Read more

Tales of Terror

By: Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, Charlotte Perkins...

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham & Kimberly Schraf

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Monkey's Paw Jacobs was considered a humorist in turn of the century England, but here he gives us a masterpiece of horror. The Monkey's Paw is a Gothic tale, telling us again how wishes can go awry. The Pit and the Pendulum One of Poe's most familiar works, The Pit and the Pendulum is the first-hand account of a prisoner during the... Read more