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Miles Morales Suspended

A Spider-Man Novel

By: Jason Reynolds
Narrated by: Guy Lockard & Nile Bullock
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the “action-packed…banter-filled” (School Library Journal, starred review) sequel to his groundbreaking young adult novel Miles Morales: Spider-Man about the adventures of the unassuming, everyday kid who just so happens to be Spider-Man.

Miles Morales is just your average teenager.... Read more

School Trip

By: Jerry Craft
Narrated by: Dereje Tarrant, Nile Bullock, Guy Lockard, Marc Thompson, Kaian Lilien, Dan Bittner, Ron Butler, Kim Mai Guest, Miles Harvey, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Rebecca Soler & Phoebe Strole
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft is back with the newest adventures of Jordan, Drew, Liam, and all the characters that fans first met in New Kid, winner of the Newbery Award and the Coretta Scott King Author Award! The gang from Riverdale Academy Day is heading to Paris, for an international education like you’ve never seen... Read more

On Air with Zoe Washington

Zoe Washington

By: Janae Marks
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

* An instant New York Times bestseller * An empowering and big-hearted sequel to the bestselling and critically acclaimed From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks! Two years ago, Zoe Washington helped clear Marcus’ name for a crime he didn’t commit. Now her birth father has finally been released from prison and to an outpouring of... Read more

Hope's Path to Glory

The Story of a Family's Journey on the Overland Trail

By: Jerdine Nolen
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

In Alexandria, Virginia, in the mid-19th century, a slave-owning family is facing financial trouble. The eldest son, Jason, thinks going to California to mine for gold might be the best way to protect his father’s legacy. He’ll need a cook, a laundress, and a hostler for the journey, and one of them is twelve-year-old Clementine, whose mother... Read more

Pilar Ramirez and the Curse of San Zenon

Pilar Ramirez Duology: Book #2

By: Julian Randall
Narrated by: Amanda Alcántara
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

The Land of Stories meets Dominican culture and mythology come to life in Julian Randall's Pilar Ramirez and the Curse of San Zenon, the action-packed fantasy duology finale―for fans of the Tristan Strong series and Amari and the Night Brothers.

After being magically transported to the mythical island of Zafa and rescuing her long captive cousin... Read more

Figure It Out, Henri Weldon

By: Tanita S. Davis
Narrated by: Karen Malina White
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Tanita S. Davis, author of Partly Cloudy and Serena Says, has written another funny, warm story featuring middle school and family life—all about the complex calculations it takes for everyone to balance the equations of their lives and what it takes to be part of a team while handling a learning disability. This middle grade novel is perfect... Read more

Gloom Town

By: Ronald L. Smith
Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

A delightfully creepy novel from a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner imbued with magic and seafaring mythology. Lemony Snicket and Jessica Townsend meet Greenglass House, with a hint of Edward Gorey thrown in.When twelve-year-old Rory applies for a job at a spooky old mansion in his gloomy seaside town, he finds the owner,... Read more

The Grip

By: Marcus Stroman
Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

In this first book in the semi-autobiographical middle grade series from MLB pitcher Marcus Stroman, a young baseball player learns that perfect games only come with a lot of practice—and some strikeouts.

Young Marcus Stroman is determined to make it to the highest playing level he can, despite every coach telling him he’s not tall enough to... Read more

Where the Black Flowers Bloom

By: Ronald L. Smith
Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

A gripping, richly imagined fantasy set in an alternate ancient African world in which a Black girl finds her power and saves her people from evil, by the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning author of Black Panther: The Young Prince. In the land of Alkebulan, twelve-year-old Asha is an orphan, raised by Madame S, the... Read more

The Door of No Return

By: Kwame Alexander
Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

“Wonderful and devastating, light-hearted and heart-wrenching, this is an incredible, intense, moving story of family and tragedy. I listened to the audiobook, and it was marvelous. Read more

Maya and the Lord of Shadows

Maya and the Rising Dark: Book #3

By: Rena Barron
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

In the thrilling third and final book in the acclaimed Maya and the Rising Dark trilogy that Kirkus calls ""truly #BlackGirlMagic,"" Maya must face off with the Lord of Shadows to save the human world from impending war with the Dark.War is coming. Despite everything Maya and her father have done, the veil that protects the human world is... Read more

Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion

Ruby Finley: Book #1

By: K. Tempest Bradford
Narrated by: Channie Waites
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

RUBY FINLEY IS A SCIENCE GENIUS.

When eleven-year-old Ruby finds the weirdest bug she’s ever seen in her front yard, she does what any young entomologist would do: She quickly captures it for further study.

But this insect is not your average bug. It doesn’t appear in any of Ruby’s reference books, and no online experts can identify it. Before... Read more

Moonflower

By: Kacen Callender
Narrated by: André Santana
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Kacen Callender, National Book Award winner of King and the Dragonflies, delivers a stunning novel that invites readers into a child’s struggles with mental health, and their journey to wholeness.Moon’s depression is overwhelming. Therapy doesn’t help, and Moon is afraid that their mom hates them because they’re sad. Moon’s only escape is... Read more

Rain Rising

By: Courtne Comrie
Narrated by: Angel Pean
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

An inspiring debut middle grade novel-in-verse about Rain, who must overcome sadness after her all-star brother is badly beaten up at a frat party. Genesis Begins Again meets Brown Girl Dreaming in this powerful story of perseverance, family, and hope.""A gorgeous debut: a necessary, cathartic, immersive healing experience.” —Kirkus Reviews... Read more

Holler of the Fireflies

By: David Barclay Moore
Narrated by: Zeno Robinson & David Barclay Moore
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

A boy from the hood in Brooklyn travels to a STEM camp in an Appalachian holler for one epic, life-changing summer in this brilliant novel from the award-winning author of The Stars Beneath Our Feet.

Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town... Read more

Eden's Everdark

By: Karen Strong
Narrated by: Tovah Ott
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Hailed by Newbery winner Kelly Barnhill as “stunning, moving, and marvelously strange,” this tale of a young girl who stumbles into a magical realm ruled by a wicked witch is a haunting and ultimately uplifting middle grade novel about grief, family, and decades-old magic.

Still grieving the loss of her mother, Eden visits Safina Island, her... Read more

Amari and the Great Game

Supernatural Investigations: Book #2

By: B. B. Alston
Narrated by: Imani Parks
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Sequel to the New York Times bestseller Amari and the Night Brothers!Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this magical second book in the New York Times and Indie bestselling Supernatural Investigations trilogy—perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor.After finding her brother and saving... Read more

Isaiah Dunn Saves the Day

Isaiah Dunn

By: Kelly J. Baptist
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Starting middle school is no joke! Isaiah Dunn has more to say in the sequel to the award-winning novel Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero. Friendship, community, and a love of poetry blend in this coming-of-age tale.

Things are looking up for super kid Isaiah Dunn. He and his sister, Charlie, are getting used to staying with Miz Rita, and Mama's feeling... Read more

Saving Earth

Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future

By: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

A timely and inspiring nonfiction guide for middle grade readers about the history of our fight against climate change, and how young people today are rising to action.

Inspired by Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth: A Recent History, the acclaimed book that grew out of an August 2018 issue of the New York Times Magazine solely dedicated to it, Saving... Read more

Squad Goals

By: Erika J. Kendrick
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Camp is in session in this cheer-tastic middle-grade novel about making new friends, finding your place, and learning to embrace your inner Magic.



Magic Olive Poindexter has big shoes to fill. Her mother was a professional cheerleader, her father is a retired NBA legend, her big sister is the new face of the oh-so-glamorous Laker Girls, and her... Read more