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Audiobooks for Kids on Censorship and Media Literacy

Fiction and nonfiction for kids and teens interested in understanding censorship, media literacy, and fake news.

Answers in the Pages

By: David Levithan
Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer, Vikas Adam & Oliver Wyman
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

“Three stories intertwine to create a masterpiece highlighting the importance of queer book representation in schools, and the dangers of book banning. David Levithan had me hooked from the first sentence and sighing with hope at the last. I fell in love with the sweet characters, becoming invested in their quirks and lives. A celebration of... Read more

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What the Fact?

Finding the Truth in All the Noise

By: Seema Yasmin
Narrated by: Seema Yasmin
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

“For anyone feeling overwhelmed by the plethora of misinformation, disinformation, falsehoods, and other methods of muddling reality, this book is a fantastic resource. In accessible, conversational language, rife with examples real and hypothetical, Dr. Seema Yasmin breaks down the different types of bad info, how it spreads, why it spreads, and... Read more

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Not Another Banned Book

By: Dana Alison Levy
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh & Dana Alison Levy
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

“What a gem of a book! As with Maybe He Just Likes You (which, spoiler Molly mentions in her graduation speech!), this is a book I wish I'd had when I was in middle school. Molly is struggling with so many things: grieving, growing up, realizing life isn't fair. Her anger at everything out of her control is so relatable--at any age! But her... Read more

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This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed
Narrated by: Kausar Mohammed
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

★ “[Ahmed] employs high stakes, increasing tensions, romantic near-misses, and adult hypocrisy to powerful effect.” Publisher's Weekly, starred review

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspense novel about book banning, activism, and standing up for what you believe. 

After her dad... Read more

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The Rumor Game

A Novel

By: Thomas Mullen
Narrated by: Megan Tusing
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

"Sliding easily between the accents of Bostonians and a variety of immigrants, narrator Tusing enhances the text and gives identity to the characters."—Booklist

A determined reporter and a
reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in this gripping historical thriller set in World War II-era Boston.

Reporter Anne Lemire writes the Rumor... Read more

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At the Speed of Lies

By: Cindy L. Otis
Narrated by: Shannon Condon
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Quinn Calvet was supposed to be having an epic year. She had plans with her best friend, Ximena, and sister, Ava, and to grow her following as an influencer on The Whine. Instead, Quinn finds herself third wheel to Ximena and her boyfriend or getting ditched by Ava who has turned into an overachiever, obsessed with studying and joining school... Read more

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Hollow Fires

By: Samira Ahmed
Narrated by: Samira Ahmed, Soneela Nankani & Amin El Gamal
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

This powerful, gripping thriller from a New York Times bestselling author shows the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthing hidden truths—and the undeniable power of hope.
 
Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she’s learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist’s job is to find the... Read more

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On the Subject of Unmentionable Things

By: Julia Walton
Narrated by: Phoebe Strole
Length: 7 hours 1 minute

A girl rewrites sex education, one viral post at a time, in this fiercely honest and delightfully awkward novel from the award-winning author of Words on Bathroom Walls.

Phoebe Townsend is a rule follower . . . or so everyone thinks. She’s an A student who writes for her small-town school newspaper. But what no one knows is that Phoebe is also... Read more

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The Great Banned-Books Bake Sale

By: Aya Khalil
Narrated by: Dalia Ramahi
Length: 18 minutes

Upon learning that the books with kids who look like her have been banned by her school district, Kanzi descends into fear and helplessness. But her classmates support her, and together—with their teacher’s help—they hatch a plan to hold a bake sale and use the proceeds to buy diverse books to donate to libraries. The event is a big success: the... Read more

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This Book Is Banned

By: Raj Haldar
Narrated by: Raj Haldar
Length: 7 minutes

THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT DINOSAURS.
No it's not. Dinosaurs are NOT ALLOWED.
OH. THIS IS NOW A BOOK ABOUT AVOCADOS!
Sorry. We deleted those.
FINE.
THIS BOOK IS ABOUT?NOPE
Permanently BANNED!
What is this book about anyway?! Maybe you shouldn’t even try reading it … But what could possibly be inside?

#1 New York Times bestselling author Raj Haldar presents a... Read more

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True or False

A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News

By: Cindy L. Otis
Narrated by: Erin Dion
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

"Fake news" is a term you’ve probably heard a lot in the last few years, but it’s not a new phenomenon. From the ancient Egyptians to the French Revolution to Jack the Ripper and the founding fathers, fake news has been around as long as human civilization. But that doesn’t mean that we should just give up on the idea of finding the truth. In... Read more

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Killer Underwear Invasion!

How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories

By: Elise Gravel
Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer & Samara Naeymi
Length: 32 minutes

In this hilarious, yet fact-filled book, Elise Gravel uses her kid-friendly wit to break down what disinformation is, why people spread it, and how to tell what is real and what isn't. And that's the truth!

"If I told you that peanuts gave you super strength, unicorns were discovered on the moon, and martians invaded New Jersey, would you believe... Read more

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Attack of the Black Rectangles

By: A. S. King
Narrated by: Pete Cross, Gretchen Bender, Amy Sarig King & Jane Yolen
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write.When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged.Someone in... Read more

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Ban This Book

By: Alan Gratz
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

An inspiring tale of a fourth-grader who fights back when her favorite book is banned from the school library―by starting her own illegal locker libraryIt all started the day Amy Anne Ollinger tried to check out her favorite book in the whole world, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, from the school library. That’s when Mrs.... Read more

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Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics

Mr. Lemoncello's Library: Book #2

By: Chris Grabenstein
Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

The New York Times bestselling, puzzle-packed sequel to the award-winning Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein, coauthor of I Funny, Treasure Hunters and other bestselling series with James Patterson!

Welcome, boys and girls, readers of all ages, to the first-ever Library Olympics! Kyle and his teammates are back, and the... Read more

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The Landry News

By: Andrew Clements
Narrated by: Zoe Kazan
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

New Student Gets Old Teacher

The bad news is that Cara Landry is the new kid at Denton Elementary School. The worse news is that her teacher, Mr. Larson, would rather read the paper and drink coffee than teach his students anything. So Cara decides to give Mr. Larson something else to read -- her own newspaper, The Landry News.

Before she... Read more

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