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The Windeby Puzzle

History and Story

By: Lois Lowry
Narrated by: Lois Lowry, Lauren Ezzo & Andrew Gibson
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive. In an utterly one-of-a-kind blend of fiction and history, a master storyteller explores the mystery and life of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body.Estrild is... Read more

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

By: Beth Lincoln
Narrated by: Nikki Patel
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

“A deliciously gothic, madcap 'whodunit' with an array of eccentric characters! For ages 8+. Read more

What Happened to Rachel Riley?

By: Claire Swinarski
Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano, Alexandra Hunter, Karla Serrato, Gail Shalan, Reena Dutt, Caitlin Davies, Andrew Eiden & Kirby Heyborne
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

ALA Notable Children's Book Regional Indie Bestseller Audie Award Winner Edgar Award Nominee Cybils Award Nominee YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults New York Public Library Best Book of the Year Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Amazon Best Book of the Year SLJ Best Book of the Year Texas Lone Star Reading List Capital Choices Noteworthy... Read more

Lasagna Means I Love You

By: Kate O'Shaughnessy
Narrated by: Annie Q
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

What are the essential ingredients that make a family? Eleven-year-old Mo is making up her own recipe in this unforgettable story that's a little sweet, a little sour, and totally delicious.

Nan was all the family Mo ever needed. But suddenly she’s gone, and Mo finds herself in foster care after her uncle decides she’s not worth sticking around... Read more

The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead & Wendy Mass
Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer, Jennifer Blom & Rob Dircks
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

“Such a sweet and charming book! This is a wholesome middle grade book about the importance of books and community, with a charming cat, mice, and not-so-spooky ghosts. I listened to this book on audio through Libro.fm - it would be an excellent book for families to listen to together! Read more

The Year of the Hare

A Novel

By: Arto Paasilinna
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Vatanen, a journalist, is feeling burned out and sick of the city. One summer evening, he and a photographer set out on an assignment, and as they drive through the country, the car hits a young hare. Vatanen leaves the car to save the injured creature, and the grateful animal adopts him. This small incident becomes a turning point in Vatanen’s... Read more

The Lost Year

A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (National Book Award Finalist)

By: Katherine Marsh
Narrated by: Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, Jesse Vilinsky & Katherine Marsh
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

"Narrators Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, and Jesse Vilinsky combine talents in this compelling historical fiction, which takes place during the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s."- AudioFile

Author's note read by the author.

From the author of Nowhere Boy—called “a resistance novel for our times” by The New York Times—comes a brilliant... Read more

Mexikid

(Newbery Honor Award Winner)

By: Pedro Martín
Narrated by: Oscar Emmanuel Fabela, Omar Leyva, Cynthia Farrell, Kevin Orduño, Elena Rey, Avi Roque, Christophe Landa, Daisy Guevara, Alejandro Vargas-Lugo & Fernando Monroy
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Newbery Honor Book
Pura Belpré Author Award
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award
Odyssey Honor Audiobook
 
A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir—adapted for audio—about a Mexican-American boy’s family and their adventure-filled road trip to bring their abuelito back from Mexico to live with them.

Pedro Martín has grown up hearing... Read more

The Mona Lisa Vanishes

A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world—and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all.

On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the... Read more

No Matter the Distance

By: Cindy Baldwin
Narrated by: Reena Dutt
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

An unexpected animal companion helps a girl with cystic fibrosis learn to write her own story in this captivating novel in verse by award-winning author and disabled activist Cindy Baldwin. Penny Rooney has cystic fibrosis, which means she has to do breathing treatments to help her lungs work. Some days, it seems like her CF is the only thing... Read more

You Are Here: Connecting Flights

By: Ellen Oh
Narrated by: David Lee Huynh, Dana Wing Lau, Ramon de Ocampo & Jeanne Syquia
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

“I had a wonderful time following all the threads in this one! You Are Here brings together twelve authors to write twelve stories about twelve Asian-American kids in an airport, each with their own perspective on what's going down. With stories about speaking out and standing up for both yourself and others in the face of both unintentional and... Read more

Simon Sort of Says

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

“A comedy about a kid who survived a school shooting might sound like a hard sell, but Bow pulls it off. From an animal blessing day gone horribly wrong to faking an alien message with friends, Simon shows there's life, love, and most importantly, humor after trauma in this laugh-out-loud Newberry Honor book. Collyer nails Simon's voice, making... Read more

Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow

By: Eliane Dimopoulos
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Butternut is a young rabbit who loves storytelling, is prone to adventures, yet troubled by dark fears that she refers to as her “brambles.” Despite her mother’s advice to stick to her own kind, when Butternut befriends an exuberant young robin named Piper, the two companions soon find themselves growing ever more ready to help creatures in... Read more

Not an Easy Win

By: Chrystal D. Giles
Narrated by: Nile Bullock & Chrystal D. Giles
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

FOUR STARRED REVIEWS!
Twelve-year old Lawrence is new to chess--can he find a way to get on the board, even though the odds are stacked against him?

Find out in this powerful novel about family, forgiveness, and figuring out who you are when you don’t make the rules—just right for middle-grade fans of Nic Stone and Jason Reynolds.

*“Essential... Read more

Hamra and the Jungle of Memories

By: Hanna Alkaf
Narrated by: Samantha Tan
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

A Malaysian spin on Little Red Riding Hood from the critically acclaimed author of The Girl and the Ghost, Hanna Alkaf.Courage is the strongest magic there is.On Hamra's thirteenth birthday, she receives nothing but endless nagging and yet another errand to run in the Langkawi jungle that looms behind her home.No one has remembered her special... Read more

Half-Moon Summer

By: Elaine Vickers
Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin & Charley Flyte
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Two seventh graders discover it takes more than grit and a good pair of shoes to run 13.1 miles. You’ve got to have a partner who refuses to let you quit.

Drew was never much of a runner. Until his dad’s unexpected diagnosis. Mia has nothing better to do. Until she realizes entering Half Moon Bay’s half-marathon could solve her family’s housing... Read more

The Grace of Wild Things

By: Heather Fawcett
Narrated by: Aven Shore
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

“A middle grade fantasy from the author of one of my favorite adult fantasy series, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries! This witchy retelling of Anne of Green Gables is utterly charming and stars Grace, an orphan who must complete a grimoire full of spells to become the witch of the wood’s apprentice…or lose her magic. I loved the culturally... Read more

The Girl from Earth's End

By: Tara Dairman
Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Twelve-year-old Henna loves living on Earth’s End, the smallest and remotest settlement in the Gardenia Isles. As one of her island’s three residents—the other two are her papas—she spends most of her free time in the garden, coaxing beautiful blooms out of her beloved plants. But when her papa Niall
suddenly becomes seriously ill, Henna’s... Read more

The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto

By: Adrianna Cuevas
Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite role-playing game, than face his father’s increasing restrictions and his mother’s fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into the real world and steal their school cafeteria's slushie machine, his dad concocts a punishment Rafa never... Read more

The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn

By: Sally J. Pla
Narrated by: Gail Shalan
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Neurodivergent Maudie is ready to spend an amazing summer with her dad, but will she find the courage to tell him a terrible secret about life with her mom and new stepdad? This contemporary novel by the award-winning author of The Someday Birds is a must-read for fans of Leslie Connor and Ali Standish.Maudie always looks forward to the summers... Read more