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The Button War

A Tale of the Great War

By: Avi
Narrated by: Will Ropp
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Renowned, award-winning author Avi pens a stark, unflinching tale of ordinary boys living in wartime as tensions — and desperations — mount among them.

Twelve-year-old Patryk knows little of the world beyond his tiny Polish village; the Russians have occupied the land for as long as anyone can remember, but otherwise life is unremarkable. Patryk... Read more

The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot: Book #1

By: Peter Brown
Narrated by: Kate Atwater
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

“Lovely read for middle graders - soon to be a film! Read more

The City of Ember

The First Book of Ember

The City of Ember: Book #1

By: Jeanne DuPrau
Narrated by: Wendy Dillon
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Ember is the only light in a dark world. But when its lamps begin to flicker, two friends must race to escape the dark. This highly acclaimed adventure series is a modern-day classic—with over 4 MILLION copies sold! 
 
The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are... Read more

Project F

By: Jeanne DuPrau
Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

From the bestselling author of The City of Ember comes a post-apocalyptic story set hundreds of years in the future, where life is simple and modern conveniences are a thing of the past until a boy enchanted by technology is forced to choose between doing the right thing for his community and pursuing his dreams of adventure.

WELCOME TO THE... Read more

Among the Hidden

Shadow Children: Book #1

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

At a time in the future, when having more than two children is illegal, 12-year-old Luke Garner is third born, a shadow child—his very existence punishable by death.

He spends his whole life hiding and knows only his immediate family and their small farm.

When a new housing development is built near his family’s home, Luke is forced into even... Read more

The School for Whatnots

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Narrated by: Lillie Ricciardi
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

From master of suspense author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes another page-turning stand-alone adventure perfect for fans of Cog and Bad Magic.No matter what anyone tells you, I’m real.That’s what the note says that Max finds under his keyboard.He knows that his best friend, Josie, wrote it. He’d know her handwriting anywhere. But why she wrote... Read more

When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

By: Alice Hoffman
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Bestselling author Alice Hoffman delivers a stunning novel about one of contemporary history's most acclaimed figures, exploring the little-known details of Anne Frank's life before she went into hiding.Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl has captivated and inspired readers for decades. Published posthumously by her bereaved father, Anne's... Read more

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

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

Internment

By: Samira Ahmed
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

“An emotionally charged, incredibly well written story of what it would be like if internment camps were brought back for this nation's Muslim citizens. Beautifully narrated, Internment is gripping and powerful, this is a must-listen for all ages. Read more

We Are Not Free

A Printz Honor Winner

By: Traci Chee
Narrated by: Scott Keiji Takeda, Dan Woren, Ryan Potter, Ali Fumiko, Sophie Oda, Andrew Kishino, Chris Naoki Lee, Grace Rolek, Erika Ishii, Brittany Ishibashi, Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa & Terry Kitagawa
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * PRINTZ HONOR BOOK * WALTER HONOR BOOK * ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE HONOR BOOK *From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are... Read more

Little Brother

By: Cory Doctorow
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.

But his whole world changes when he and his friends find... Read more

Shatter Me

Shatter Me: Book #1

By: Tahereh Mafi
Narrated by: Kate Simses
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

The gripping first installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series.One touch is all it takes. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. One touch, and she can kill.No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could... Read more

Moxie

By: Jennifer Mathieu
Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Moxie girls fight back!

Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her small-town Texas high school where the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes and hallway harassment. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules.

Viv's mom was a punk rock Riot Grrrl in the ’90s, so now Viv takes a page from her... Read more

We Set the Dark on Fire

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

“Tehlor Kay Mejia's imaginative LGBTQ YA debut fantasy starts in mythology and ends in open rebellion. In between she builds a culture we know deeply without knowing at all, and characters trapped in consequences of old choices and trying to invent new ones. While the latter speaks to the novel's appeal to YA readers, the former also pulls in... Read more

The Chandler Legacies

By: Abdi Nazemian
Narrated by: Abdi Nazemian & Vikas Adam
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a revelatory novel about the enclosed world of privilege and silence at an elite boarding school and the unlikely group of friends who dare to challenge the status quo through their writing. Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart, Kathleen Glasgow, and Jandy Nelson, with crossover... Read more

Everything Sad is Untrue

(a true story)

By: Daniel Nayeri
Narrated by: Daniel Nayeri
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

“Listener, you are about to enter a world of rose water and saffron, of sheep's blood and mad bulls, of myth and magic carpets, a world of Scheherazade's making, a thousand and one stories that each bend and weave and buoy the next. As a child who had to flee his beloved home and family in Iran, Daniel's warm narration invites us to sit and stay... Read more

The Hate U Give

By: Angie Thomas
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

“This bestselling, powerful young adult novel about social justice and one teen girl's effort to fight for what is right, will leave you breathless. The narration by Bahni Turpin is hands down the best I've ever heard. This is such an important book it should be required reading for life in general. Or listening. Definitely listening. Read more

Uglies

Uglies: Book #1

By: Scott Westerfeld
Narrated by: Emily Tremaine
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix!

The first installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. In just a few weeks she’ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly... Read more