YA Nonfiction audiobooks

Three More Words

By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Narrated by: Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent a harrowing nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes. Her memoir, Three Little Words, captivated audiences everywhere and went on to become a New York Times bestseller. Now Ashley reveals the nuances of life after foster care: college and its assorted hijinks, including meeting “the one.” Marriage,... Read more

Beastly Brains

By: Nancy F. Castaldo

Narrated by: Charon Normand-Widmer

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In Beastly Brains, Nancy Castaldo delves into the minds of animals and explores animal empathy, communication, tool use, and social societies through interviews and historical anecdotes. Researchers from Charles Darwin to Jane Goodall have spent years analyzing the minds of animals, and today's science is revolutionizing old theories and... Read more

Because They Marched

By: Russell Freedman

Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early 1960s, tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a voting rights march in January, 1965, and was attacked by a segregationist. In February, the shooting of an unarmed demonstrator by an Alabama state... Read more

Ten Days in a Mad-House

By: Nellie Bly

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1887, Nellie Bly had herself committed to the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in New York City with the goal of discovering what life was like for its patients. While there, Bly experienced firsthand the shocking abuse and neglect of its inmates, from inedible food to horrifyingly unsanitary conditions. Ten Days in a Mad-House is... Read more

How To Crochet Recycled Materials

By: HowExpert & Sarah Olson

Narrated by: Kelly McGee

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to crochet recycled items, then get "How To Crochet Recycled Materials" guide. Are you the sort of person who hates throwing anything away that might still have a use? Do you enjoy bargain hunting and crocheting? Then this guide is definitely for you!With the help of straight forward, easy to follow instructions and step-by-step... Read more

Death on the River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Amazon Adventure

By: Samantha Seiple

Narrated by: David deVries

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The action-packed true story of President Theodore Roosevelt's dangerous adventure down one of the most treacherous rivers on Earth."I did have a murderous trip down South, but it was mighty interesting." In October 1913, Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on a tour of South America. The thrill-seeking adventurer had no idea... Read more

How To Coach Youth Football

By: HowExpert & John Seagroves

Narrated by: Adam Meggs

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

We hear the reports and see the video all too often: youth coaches and officials assaulted, fights breaking out at youth sporting events, and parents and coaches losing control over what should be a child’s game. It doesn’t have to be that way. What we don’t see are the thousands of youth football coaches who do it the right way: teaching the... Read more

How To Draw With Charcoal

By: HowExpert & Adrian Sanqui

Narrated by: Matyas J.

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to learn how to draw with charcoal, then get the How to Draw With Charcoal Guide.How to Draw with Charcoal is a step-by-step manual on how to use charcoal as an art medium. This book covers several ways to use charcoal in different art genres. It will show you how to produce artwork of different styles, including portrait and... Read more

Sachiko

By: Caren B. Stelson

Narrated by: John Chancer & Katherine Fenton

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

2017 Parents’ Choice Award Winner! This striking work of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath. Having conducted extensive interviews with Sachiko Yasui, Caren Stelson shares the true story of a young girl who... Read more

Painting in the Dark

By: Rachelle Burk

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot & Katherine Kellgren

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1953, Esref Armagan was born completely blind to a poor family in Istanbul, Turkey. He received no formal education and spent his childhood days in his father’s shop, where he developed the curiosity to create and draw. He experienced the world through touch and learned to visually reproduce his surroundings, including color, shadows, and... Read more

Un monstruo viene a verme

By: Patrick Ness

Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Merecedora de numerosos premios y distinciones, Un monstruo viene a verme es la novela más aclamada de Patrick Ness. Escucha esta historia emocionante y extraordinaria sobre un niño, su madre enferma y el monstruo que viene a visitarle. Siete minutos después de la medianoche, Conor despierta y se encuentra un monstruo en la ventana. Pero no es... Read more

Courage to Soar

By: Simone Biles

Narrated by: Imani Parks

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In Courage to Soar, the official autobiography from four-time Olympic gold-winning and record-setting American gymnast Simone Biles, Simone shares how her faith, family, passion, and perseverance has made her one of the top athletes and gymnasts in the world—and how you too can overcome challenges in your life.Simone Biles’ entrance into the... Read more

Liked

By: Kari Kampakis

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For many girls it starts early. The desire to be perfect. The need for approval. The longing for acceptance and being liked by a lot of people.



Thanks to social media, these desires now get channeled online. Girls can curate an image, build a following, and test-drive identities until they find one that draws attention and applause. But in this... Read more

25 Conversation Starters

By: Dre Baldwin

Narrated by: Dre Baldwin

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Conversation is simple and easy. We share things with others, and others share things with us. It doesn't always work out this simply, of course, but this is who we are at our cores. Humans are social creatures; we share. Verbal communication played a significant role in all your biggest life achievements. The sexiest guy or girl you've dated.... Read more

55 Daily People Skills

By: Dre Baldwin

Narrated by: Dre Baldwin

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It's happened to me, too. A lack of connections has cost me opportunities. Knowing the right people - who knew and liked me - has helped me many times as well. It seems random, but what if we could get some control over these occurrences? What if you could develop and strategically use skills for connecting with people? What if you could then... Read more

Uprooted

By: Albert Marrin

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Editor's Choice

On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor comes a harrowing and enlightening look at the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II— from National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin
 
Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that... Read more

UnSlut

By: Emily Lindin

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle & Erin Yuen

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When Emily Lindin was eleven years old, she was branded a slut by the rest of her classmates. For the next few years of her life, she was bullied incessantly at school, after school, and online. At the time, Emily didn't feel comfortable confiding in her parents or in the other adults her my life. But she did keep a diary. UnSlut is adapted from... Read more

The Duel

By: Judith St. George

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned at an early age. Both were brilliant students who attended college--one at Princeton, the other at Columbia--and studied law. Both were young staff officers under General George Washington, and both became war heroes. Politics beckoned them, and each served in the... Read more

Gunpowder Girls

By: Tanya Anderson

Narrated by: Carrie Olsen

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Civil War, the government hired women and girls—some as young as nine—to make millions of rounds of ammunition. They worked 72-hour weeks with little training. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the price for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of these workers were killed, blown up and burned beyond recognition. Gunpowder Girls... Read more

How To Start a Trucking Company

By: HowExpert

Narrated by: Marilyn Coleman

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to learn the basics of having a trucking company business, then get "How To Start a Trucking Company" which is written by a person with real life experience starting a trucking company business.How To Start a Trucking Company is a guide designed to help anyone who is interested in starting a trucking business. In this guide you will... Read more

Samurai Rising

By: Pamela S. Turner

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family-and lost. His father was killed, his mother... Read more

Don't Sit On the Baby!

By: Halley Bondy

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Babysitting is one of the most popular part-time jobs for teens, but caring for kids is no easy feat. Offering a ton of useful tips, this funny, modern no-nonsense guide covers all the basics any babysitting hopeful needs to know, and much more including what to expect from kids age 0-10, tips for finding and keeping the perfect babysitting gig,... Read more

Votes of Confidence

By: Jeff Fleischer

Narrated by: Nick Mondelli

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

With 2016 promising to be an interesting and hotly contested election year, Votes of Confidence offers young readers an essential guide to the past, present, and future of American elections. Read more

Eureka!

By: John Grant

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Galileo, Einstein, Curie, Darwin, Hawking - we know the names, but how much do we really know about these people? Galileo gained notoriety over his battle with the Vatican, but did you know that this father of modern science was also an accomplished lute player? And Darwin of course discovered the principle by which new species are formed, but... Read more