Owl Books Playlist for Ages 8 - 10

The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot: Book #1

By: Peter Brown
Narrated by: Kate Atwater
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

“Lovely read for middle graders - soon to be a film! Read more

The Wild Robot Escapes

The Wild Robot: Book #2

By: Peter Brown
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

“Roz is back, and better than ever! After being refurbished, our dear robot gets shipped off to work for the Shareef family on their dairy farm. And since she’s no mere automaton, she proves to be an invaluable asset — not only to the cows she has befriended, but also to the Shareef children. Yet despite her newfound friends, she still yearns to... Read more

The Wild Robot Protects

By: Peter Brown
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

The New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island! Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources. Roz calms and... Read more

Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

By: Louis Sachar
Narrated by: Louis Sachar
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar knows how to make readers laugh. And there are laughs galore in perennial favorite Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger!

Before you enter Wayside School, you should know that it’s a thirty-story building with one classroom on each floor. Mrs. Jewls teaches the class on the thirtieth... Read more

Wayside School is Falling Down

By: Louis Sachar
Narrated by: Louis Sachar
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar knows how to make readers laugh. And there are laughs galore in perennial favorite Wayside School Is Falling Down!

Yum! Miss Mush is dishing out her famous Mushroom Surprise in the Wayside School cafeteria. Ron says it tastes like hot dogs and grape jelly. Clean your plate and you’ll turn... Read more

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

By: Louis Sachar
Narrated by: Louis Sachar
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar knows how to make readers laugh. And there are laughs galore in perennial favorite Sideways Stories from Wayside School, the first book in the series!

Accidentally built sideways and standing thirty stories high (the builder said he was very sorry for the mistake), Wayside School has some... Read more

Matilda

By: Roald Dahl
Narrated by: Kate Winslet
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

The classic story from Roald Dahl, about an exceptional young girl with extraordinary powers. Adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and a Netflix film!

Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a menacing,... Read more

James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

From the World's No. 1 Storyteller, James and the Giant Peach is a children's classic that has captured young reader's imaginations for generations.

One of TIME MAGAZINE’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time

After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Life... Read more

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

A Harry Potter Hogwarts Library Book

By: J.K. Rowling
Narrated by: Eddie Redmayne
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

An approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since its first publication, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable guide to the magical beasts of the wizarding world. It showcases a menagerie of magical creatures, explained enchantingly by noted magizoologist, Newt Scamander, who you may remember from the... Read more

Ivy & Bean Book 1

By: Annie Barrows
Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

The moment they saw each other, Bean and Ivy knew they wouldn't be friends. But when Bean plays a joke on her sister, Nancy, and has to quickly hide and Ivy comes to the rescue, proving that sometimes the best of friends are people never meant to like each other. Vibrant characters and lots of humor make this a charming and addictive... Read more

Ivy & Bean and the Ghost That Had to Go (Book 2)

By: Annie Barrows
Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Now that Ivy and Bean are friends, they do gymnastics club together, sit together in Ms. Aruba-Tate's second grade, and tell each other their darkest secrets. And when Ivy discovers a ghost in the school bathroom, it will take both girls' courage and imagination to make it go away. Another entertaining installment in this series about two... Read more

Ivy & Bean Break the Fossil Record (Book 3)

By: Annie Barrows
Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

World record fever grips the second grade, and soon Ivy and Bean are trying to set their own record by becoming the youngest people to have ever discovered a dinosaur. But how hard is it to find one? Read more

Ivy & Bean Take Care of the Babysitter (Book 4)

By: Annie Barrows
Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

The adventures of Ivy and Bean continue in the latest installment from series creators Annie Barrows and Sophie Blackall. In Ivy and Bean Take Care of the Babysitter, the two girls hatch a plan to prove that Bean's big sister is the world's worst babysitter. Of course plans go awry, but fun ensues! Read more

Ivy & Bean Bound to Be Bad (Book 5)

By: Annie Barrows
Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

The adventures of Ivy and Bean continue in paperback! In Ivy and Bean Bound to Be Bad the two girls decide to be so good and kind and pure of thought that wild animals will befriend them. When this doesn't work, they decide that perhaps a little badness can be good. Read more

Ivy & Bean Doomed to Dance (Book 6)

By: Annie Barrows
Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Finally! After months of begging their parents for ballet lessons, Ivy and Bean finally get what they want . . . well, not exactly. Much to their surprise, it turns out ballet lessons do not cover karate chops and roundhouse kicks. The girls have no interest in learning how to dance gracefully, but they promised their parents they would finish... Read more

Ivy & Bean What's the Big Idea? (Book 7)

By: Annie Barrows
Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

It's the Science Fair, and the second grade is all over it! Some kids are making man-eating robots. Some kids are holding their breath for a very, very long time. Some kids are doing interesting things with vacuum cleaners. The theme, obviously, is global warming. But what should Ivy and Bean do? Something involving explosions? Or ropes?... Read more

Ivy & Bean No News Is Good News (Book 8)

By: Annie Barrows
Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

The 8th book in the New York Times bestselling Ivy & Bean series is now available in paperback! Ivy and Bean need some money. Ten dollars, to be exact. Never mind what for. Okay, it's for low-fat Belldeloon cheese in a special just-for-one serving size. Don't ask why. But how are Ivy and Bean going to make ten dollars? Hey, maybe they should... Read more

Ivy & Bean Make the Rules (Book 9)

By: Annie Barrows
Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Bean's older sister is going to Girl Power 4-Ever Camp, where she will do Crafts and Music and First Aid and other secret things that Bean will never know about because girls have to be eleven to go to Girl Power 4-Ever Camp. Wait a second! Bean and Ivy can make their own camp, their own better camp: Camp Flaming Arrow, where counselors Ivy and... Read more

Ivy & Bean Take the Case (Book 10)

By: Annie Barrows
Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Watch out, you diabolical masterminds! There's a new detective on Pancake Court: Bean! She laughs at danger! She solves even the most mysterious mysteries! What? There aren't any mysteries? Then Bean and her assistant, Ivy, will make some! Read more

Ivy & Bean One Big Happy Family (Book 11)

By: Annie Barrows
Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Book 11 in The New York Times bestselling Ivy & Bean series.

Ivy and Bean are back, and they are funnier than ever. Ivy's worried. She's read a lot of books about only children, so she knows that they are sometimes spoiled rotten. They don't share their toys. They never do any work. They scream and cry when they don't get their way. Spoiler... Read more