Our favourite tales for tweens

Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds

By: Samira Ahmed
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

From bestselling author Samira Ahmed comes a thrilling fantasy adventure intertwining Islamic legend and history, perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the Land of Stories.
 
On the day of a rare super blue blood moon eclipse, twelve-year-old Amira and her little brother, Hamza, can’t stop their bickering while attending a special exhibit on medieval... Read more

The Vanished (Shuri: A Black Panther Novel #2)

By: Nic Stone
Narrated by: Anika Noni Rose
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Shuri, the Princess of Wakanda (and sister to the Black Panther), sets out to save a group of kidnapped girls in this all-new, original middle-grade novel by New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone!With the heart-shaped herb thriving, a group of Wakanda's finest engineers working on expanding her dome technology, and the borders more... Read more

Shuri: A Black Panther Novel #1

By: Nic Stone
Narrated by: Anika Noni Rose
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes an all-new upper middle grade series based on one of the Marvel Universe's break-out characters—Shuri, from Black Panther!An original, upper-middle-grade series starring the break-out character from the Black Panther comics and films: T'Challa's younger sister, Shuri! Crafted by New York... Read more

Fast Pitch

By: Nic Stone
Narrated by: Nic Stone
Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a softball player looking to prove herself on and off the field.

Shenice Lockwood, captain of the Fulton Firebirds, is hyper-focused when she steps up to the plate. Nothing can stop her from leading her team to the U12 fast-pitch... Read more

Clean Getaway

By: Nic Stone
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

“William "Scoob" Lamar's white G'ma fell in love with his black G'pa at a time when a mixed-race relationship between adult Americans was illegal in many parts of the country. It was especially difficult for them in the conservative south where they lived. Now G'ma is on a mission to revisit places she and G'pa traveled and to take Scoob along... Read more

Amari and the Night Brothers

Supernatural Investigations: Book #1

By: B. B. Alston
Narrated by: Imani Parks
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

“This book was fun! As a reference point, I would say it's a Spy Kids/Men in Black/Percy Jackson/Harry Potter hybrid but honestly, it's in a class all of it's own. Amari was a wonderful main character. She is super smart and caring and despite the absolute terribleness of her peers, prevails by learning to trust herself and use her talents to... Read more

Tristan Strong Keeps Punching

Tristan Strong

By: Kwame Mbalia
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the finale of Kwame Mbalia's trilogy, in which Tristan Strong faces off with his archenemy, King Cotton, once and for all. "Imagine if you combined Anansi the Spider, John Henry, and Marvel into, like, one book."-- New York Times best-selling author and Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander After reuniting... Read more

Tristan Strong Destroys the World (A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 2)

Tristan Strong: Book #2

By: Kwame Mbalia
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Bestselling author Rick Riordan presents the second book in the New York Times best-selling Tristan Strong trilogy by Kwame Mbalia. Tristan Strong, just back from a victorious but exhausting adventure in Alke, the land of African American folk heroes and African gods, is suffering from PTSD. But there's no rest for the weary when his grandmother... Read more

Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The Sky

Tristan Strong: Book #1

By: Kwame Mbalia
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

“Tristan Strong was already an excellent book, but Amir Abdullah's performance takes it to the next level. From quirky characters to menacing villains, excellent joke delivery to absolutely heartrending scenes, Abdullah brings Tristan's magical, powerful, complicated world to life. Read more

For Black Girls Like Me

By: Mariama Lockington
Narrated by: Imani Parks
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

“Imani Parks's voice introduces listeners to Makeda, an eleven-year-old black girl who was adopted by a white family as an infant. We listen to the challenges Makeda faces as her life is uprooted and she has to leave behind her best friend, Lena, the only other adopted black girl she knows, and also the only person who Makeda feels fully... Read more

Free Lunch

By: Rex Ogle
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Instead of giving him lunch money, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals.

As a poor kid in a wealthy school district, better-off kids crowd impatiently behind him as he tries to explain to the cashier that he’s on the free meal program. The lunch lady is hard of hearing, so Rex has to shout.

Free Lunch is the story of Rex’s efforts to... Read more

Friend Me

By: Sheila M. Averbuch
Narrated by: Katy Davis
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

An Amazon Best Book of the MonthWhat happens when an online friend becomes a real-life nightmare?Roisin hasn't made a single friend since moving from Ireland to Massachusetts. In fact, she is falling apart under constant abuse from a school bully, Zara. Zara torments Roisin in person and on social media. She makes Roisin the laughingstock of the... Read more

Riding Freedom

By: Pat Lessie & Pam Muñoz Ryan
Narrated by: Melissa Hughes
Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in an orphanage for boys, which suited her just fine. She didn't like playing with dolls, she could hold her own in a fight, and she loved to work in the stable. Charlotte had a special way with horses and wanted to spend her life training and riding them on a ranch of her own. The problem was, as a girl in the... Read more

Zenobia July

By: Lisa Bunker
Narrated by: Taylor Meskimen
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

The critically acclaimed author of Felix Yz crafts a bold, heartfelt story about a trans girl solving a cyber mystery and coming into her own.

Zenobia July is starting a new life. She used to live in Arizona with her father; now she's in Maine with her aunts. She used to spend most of her time behind a computer screen, improving her impressive... Read more

The Parker Inheritance (Scholastic Gold)

By: Varian Johnson
Narrated by: Cherise Boothe
Length: 10 hours

“Really, really enjoyed this book! I always love a good puzzle mystery and my heart melts for book-loving preteens. This book was great in that it not only had a fun buried treasure mystery but also friendship evolution between Candice and Brandon, Candice's reckoning with her parent's relationship, and racial tensions in the history as well as... Read more

A Mouse Called Miika

Boy Called Christmas

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Ratatouille meets Roald Dahl in the funny and fantastical story of a determined mouse on a mission to procure the world's tastiest cheese. From the author of A Boy Called Christmas–now a Netflix movie starring Kristen Wiig, Maggie Smith and Henry Lawfull!

When Nikolas left the only home he had ever known, it was a mouse named Miika who kept him... Read more

The Girl Who Saved Christmas

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

"If somewhere in the afterlife Roald Dahl met Charles Dickens and they cooked up a new Christmas tale, it couldn’t have much on this fleet, verbally rambunctious, heart-stealing follow-up to A Boy Called Christmas."—The New York Times
 
Amelia Wishart was the first child ever to receive a Christmas present. It was her Christmas spirit that gave... Read more

A Boy Called Christmas Movie Tie-In Edition

Boy Called Christmas

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

2018 Odyssey Honor
2018 ALSC Notable Children’s Recording

Roald Dahl meets Elf in this warmhearted Christmas caper about the boy who would one day be Santa Claus, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristen Wiig, Maggie Smith and Henry Lawfull!
 
Eleven-year-old... Read more

The Inquisitor's Tale

Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

By: Adam Gidwitz
Narrated by: Adam Gidwitz, Vikas Adam, Mark Bramhall, Jonathan Cowley, Kimberly Farr, Ann Marie Lee, Bruce Mann, John H. Mayer & Arthur Morey
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

The bestselling author of A Tale Dark and Grimm takes on medieval times in an exciting and hilarious new adventure about history, religion . . . and farting dragons.
 
1242. On a dark night, travelers from across France cross paths at an inn and begin to tell stories of three children: William, an oblate on a mission from his monastery; Jacob, a... Read more

The Other Half of Happy

By: Rebecca Balcárcel
Narrated by: Ariana Cordero
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

This immersive and beautifully written novel follows the story of Quijana, a girl in pieces.

Quijana must figure out which parts of herself are most important, and which pieces come together to make her whole.

This is a heartfelt poetic portrayal of a girl growing up, fitting in, and learning what it means to belong.

• Lyrical middle grade debut... Read more