YA Fiction audiobooks
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
View audiobookAleutian 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
View audiobookLooking 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
View audiobookTomorrow, When the War Began
By: John Marsden
Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
While Ellie and her friends are away in the bush, the world changes. Suddenly they are in the toughest situations humans can confront, facing life and death decisions. They are thrown into a world where they find courage, initiative, spirit and wisdom, or they die... Read more
View audiobookAbomination
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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookBurning for Revenge
By: John Marsden
Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
When you're on your knees there's only one thing to do ... stand up again! Ellie and her friends have stared defeat in the face. They have felt its hot breath. They have been bashed and battered by it, brought to breaking point. Now it's time to hit back. Now it's time to come out fighting. Now they really are burning for revenge ... Read more
View audiobookCame 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookDiving 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
View audiobookSleeping 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookSaving 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
View audiobookForest
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
View audiobookThe 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 momโฆ
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
View audiobookMilkweed
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.ย 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 blameโand the punishmentโwhile maintaining his silence. Placed on probation and sentenced to community service, Miles begins working for a man who after suffering a... Read more
View audiobookHope 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 Hopeโs 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.ย
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 parentsโ 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
View audiobookFat 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
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." โPublishers Weekly(starred review)
For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon โ a chance to party during spring break and play with some... 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 didnโt turn out that way.
โThe author balances humor and generosity with the obstacles and injustice of Katyโs world to depict a complete picture of the turn of the 20th century.โโPublishers Weekly, Starred Read more