Staff Picks - Teens and Kids!

We Were Liars

By: E. Lockhart
Narrated by: Ariadne Meyers
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Don't miss the #1 New York Times bestselling prequel, Family of Liars.

A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four... Read more

We Contain Multitudes

By: Sarah Henstra
Narrated by: Matthew Gouveia & Tony Kim
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and emotional novel about the growing relationship between two teens boys, told through the letters they write to one another.
Jonathan Hopkirk and Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky are partnered in English class, writing letters to one another in a weekly... Read more

Pony

By: R. J. Palacio
Narrated by: Ian M. Hawkins & R. J. Palacio
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

“Perfection.” –The Wall Street Journal

The bestselling author of Wonder returns with an enthralling adventure about a boy on a quest to rescue his father, with only a ghost as his companion and a mysterious pony as his guide.... Read more

The Whispering Fog

By: Landra Jennings
Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

In this spooky and atmospheric debut contemporary fantasy, Snow White and Rose Red meets the modern world after sisters Neve and Rose’s lives are upended when a swamp witch kidnaps Rose. Perfect for fans of Jodi Lynn Anderson and Katherine Arden.For twelve-year-old Neve, it’s always been she and her older sister against the world, their lives... Read more

Small Spaces

Small Spaces Quartet: Book #1

By: Katherine Arden
Narrated by: Renee Dorian
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

“Katherine Arden's debut novel for middle grade readers is perfect for all ages and a great introduction into horror for young readers. Eleven year old bookworm Ollie and her friends are just trying to survive a field trip to the local farm that turns into a creepy run for your life night full of ghosts and scarecrows. So many scarecrows! It's a... Read more

The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy

By: Anne Ursu
Narrated by: Elise Arsenault
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

From the acclaimed author of The Real Boy and The Lost Girl comes a wondrous and provocative fantasy about a kingdom beset by monsters, a mysterious school, and a girl caught in between them.If no one notices Marya Lupu, is likely because of her brother, Luka. And that’s because of what everyone knows: that Luka is destined to become a... Read more

The Labors of Hercules Beal

By: Gary D. Schmidt
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday Wars, in which a seventh grader has to figure out how to fulfill an assignment to perform the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real life—and makes discoveries about friendship, community, and himself along the way.Herc Beal knows who he's named... Read more

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

Coyote Sunrise

By: Dan Gemeinhart
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

*Winner of a Parents' Choice Gold Award*
A 2020 Audie Awards Finalist

“Narrated by Audie Award finalist Kristine Hvam, this book is at once a fun adventure and a gorgeous story about grief, love and found family.”—Reader’s Digest

"Khristine Hvam's narration is as heartfelt as the story of 12-year-old Coyote Sunrise...Both the story and Hvam's... Read more

Echo Mountain

By: Lauren Wolk
Narrated by: Holly Linneman
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

★ “Historical fiction at its finest.” –The Horn Book

“There has never been a better time to read about healing, of both the body and the heart.” –The New York Times Book Review

Echo Mountain is an acclaimed best book of 2020! 
An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Horn Book Fanfare Selection • A Kirkus Best Book of the Year • A Publishers Weekly Best... Read more

Too Bright to See

By: Kyle Lukoff
Narrated by: Jax Jackson & Kyle Lukoff
Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

“This spooky and thoughtful book follows Bug, a soon to be middle schooler. How do you handle your uncle’s death when he’s still haunting your house, and when he seems to have a message for you? How can you “be you” when you don’t know what that means yet? Read more

Simon Sort of Says

By: Erin Bow
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

For fans of Kate DiCamillo and Jack Gantos, a hilarious, wrenching, hopeful novel about finding your friends, healing your heart, and speaking your truth. Simon O'Keeffe's biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. Or maybe the alpaca disaster that went viral on YouTube. But the story the... Read more

The Minus-One Club

By: Kekla Magoon
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Fifteen-year-old Kermit Sanders knows grief and its all-encompassing shadows.

After losing his beloved older sister in a tragic car accident, nothing quite punctures through the feelings of loss. Everywhere Kermit goes, he is reminded of her.

But then Kermit finds a mysterious invitation in his locker, signed anonymously with “-1.” He has no idea... Read more

The Language of Seabirds

By: Will Taylor
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

A sweet, tender middle-grade story of two boys finding first love with each other over a seaside summer.

Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and his uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't... Read more

Forget Me Not

By: Alyson Derrick
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

2023 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Longlist

Perfect for fans of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Five Feet Apart, this tender solo debut by the coauthor of New York Times bestseller She Gets the Girl is a “punch to the gut in the best way” (Booklist, starred review) about the strength of love and the power of... Read more

Icebreaker

By: A.L. Graziadei
Narrated by: Tom Picasso
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

“I'm going to level with you - everything I know about sports I either learned against my will or from other queer media (hello, Check, Please!) and I still absolutely loved this enemies-to-lovers college hockey romance. I was not quite expecting the relatable representation of anxiety and depression, or such a poignant exploration of what it... Read more

Darkhearts

A Novel

By: James L. Sutter
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

This program features original music written and performed by the author.

Perfect for fans of Alice Oseman and Red, White, & Royal Blue, Darkhearts is a hilarious, heartfelt, enemies-to-lovers romance about love, celebrity, and what happens when the two collide.

When David quit his band, he missed his shot at fame, trapped in an ordinary high... Read more

The Probability of Everything

By: Sarah Everett
Narrated by: Jordan Cobb
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

A heart-wrenching middle grade debut about Kemi, an aspiring scientist who loves statistics and facts, as she navigates grief and loss at a moment when life as she knows it changes forever.Eleven-year-old Kemi Carter loves scientific facts, specifically probability. It's how she understands the world and her place in it. Kemi knows her odds of... Read more

Ryan and Avery

By: David Levithan
Narrated by: Jamie K. Brown
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author of EVERY DAY, this is a queer love story for the ages--told over the course of a couple's first ten dates.

When a blue-haired boy (Ryan) meets a pink-haired boy (Avery) at a dance--a queer prom--both feel an inexplicable but powerful connection. Follow them through their first ten dates as they bridge... Read more

The Many Masks of Andy Zhou

By: Jack Cheng
Narrated by: Eddy Lee & Jack Cheng
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

“Another beautiful book by Jack Cheng.” —Erin Entrada Kelly, Newbery Award-winning author of Hello, Universe

Creative and brave sixth grader Andy Zhou faces big changes at school and at home in this new novel by the award-winning author of See You in the Cosmos, for fans of When You Trap a Tiger and The Stars Beneath Our Feet

Andy Zhou is used to... Read more