Children's audiobooks

Framed

By: Carolyn Keene

Narrated by: Rebecca Rogers

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A prince is in River Heights. A prince! Granted, he’s from a relatively minor royal family, but still. This is big news.The headlines get even bigger once the prince is found toting a painting for his family’s good friend, Mrs. Mahoney—because within hours of his arrival, the federal authorities arrest him. They suspect he stole the painting... Read more

Dressed to Steal

By: Carolyn Keene

Narrated by: Rebecca Rogers

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Dressed to Steal, hot young designer Alicia Adams is opening a boutique in her hometown of River Heights. The press is all over the event. When the big day comes, tons of people show up, but when the crowd presses forward, the store window is smashed and people are injured! Later Alicia’s most expensive dress is destroyed and her store is... Read more

The Girl I Wanted to Be

By: Sarah Grace McCandless

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

As a lowly freshman, Presley Moran walks high school corridors paved with the stuff of family legend. Her cousin, Barry, a senior heartthrob and brainy varsity letterman, insists that looking good on paper is the key to success. But Presley’s young aunt Betsi, a former homecoming queen, has her own ideas about good looks and how to use them.“Can... Read more

The Orphan of Ellis Island

By: Elvira Woodruff

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Dominic Cantori is an orphan. Ashamed of his situation, he avoids making friends for fear of exposing his terrible secret. One day on a class trip to Ellis Island, a tour guide asks everyone about their families. Terrified of having to answer, Dominic immediately flees from the class and hides in a closet, where he falls asleep for hours.When he... Read more

Worth

By: A. LaFaye

Narrated by: Tommy Fleming

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Life for a family on a Nebraska homestead is difficult, with illness and weather causing worries about crops and finances, and conflicts between ranchers and farmers. For 11-year-old Nate’s family, the days grow even darker when he gets his leg crushed in a farm accident. To help out, Nate’s father brings home John Worth, just off the Orphan... Read more

Secret Identity

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

Narrated by: Daniel Young

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Tired of the abuse that he's suffered because of bully Bubba Bixby, fifth-grader Nolan Byrd allows his inner super hero to emerge, inspired by a class project. Shredderman is born, and Nolan springs into action, armed with a computer, a cleverly concealed digital camera, and his own top-secret Web page, Shredderman.com. This clever story kicks... Read more

Attack of the Tagger

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

Narrated by: Daniel Young

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Will the secret identity of cyber-hero Nolan Byrd be revealed before he can uncover the true graffiti bandit? Fast-paced fun continues in this second, satisfying adventure of Shredderman! Read more

Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The tenth mystery in the popular Sammy Keyes series offers more spirit and adventure than ever! Sammy accidentally makes a deadly mistake, but all clues point to her nemesis Heather, and she gets blamed. As Sammy struggles with her conscience – she should confess, but there’s a certain justice in Heather finally getting what she deserves – she... Read more

Sammy Keyes and the Psycho Kitty Queen

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

All of the beloved characters are back in the ninth mystery in this popular series. This time the 13-year-old sleuth is up against a cat burglar – literally! Cats are disappearing and Sammy is finding some of them in neighborhood garbage cans – dead! Miss Kitty, a local psycho cat lady, blames Sammy. Meanwhile, there’s something fishy going on... Read more

The Mixed-Up Mask Mystery: A Fletcher Mystery

By: Elizabeth Levy

Narrated by: William Dufris & Christine Marshall

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Fletcher is upset when someone tries to ruin the masked ball celebrating the opening of a new park. Everything seems to point to the young park ranger who's always getting mysterious calls on her cell phone, but Fletcher is sure she's innocent.Can Fletcher's trusty nose sniff out the real culprit? Read more

The Principal's on the Roof: A Fletcher Mystery

By: Elizabeth Levy

Narrated by: William Dufris & Christine Marshall

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The principal has promised to read aloud from the school's roof if the students read 1000 books during their reading marathon. When he agrees to read a story by Fletcher's owner Gwen, she is thrilled - until the principal starts sneezing uncontrollably as he's reading her science fiction story about aliens who live on rooftops and make humans... Read more

A Hare-Raising Tale: A Fletcher Mystery

By: Elizabeth Levy

Narrated by: William Dufris & Christine Marshall

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

With the markings of a map of the world on his fur, Jill thinks her new dog Fletcher is an excellent candidate for show and tell. But when the class rabbit mysteriously disappears, Fletcher isn't such a hit anymore ; in fact, he's the prime suspect! A Live Oak Media audio production. Read more

The Dollhouse Murders

By: Betty Ren Wright

Narrated by: Carol Jordan Stewart

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Amy knows there's some connection between Aunt Claire's old dollhouse in her great-grandparents' attic and a deadly family secret from years ago. Aunt Claire seems upset about the dollhouse, which is a replica of the house they're in, but she's not talking. Then Amy discovers that the dolls, who look like her relatives, move!... Read more

Christina's Ghost

By: Betty Ren Wright

Narrated by: Carol Jordan Stewart

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this adroitly woven tale of suspense and the supernatural, Christina and her Uncle Ralph forge a reluctant but touching relationship when the young girl spends the summer in his isolated Victorian mansion. The two come together on a ghost hunt that may be linked to murders that took place in the house thirty years earlier. Read more

Space Boy

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Is it space travel that children dream of or merely visiting other worlds? Todd had always set his heart on being an astronaut, but when he meets an alien and travels to another world, he doesn’t use a spaceship; he just hangs out in his own backyard.In Space Boy, Orson Scott Card, author of Ender’s Game, takes listeners into a strange and... Read more

The Shiloh Renewal

By: Joan Leslie Woodruff

Narrated by: Rebecca Rogers

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Two teenage girls, sisters a year apart, are in a terrible auto accident near where they live, a few miles from the Civil War battlefield at Shiloh. Penny, the older sister, is killed outright, while Sandy, the younger, is badly injured and not expected to live.In a coma, Sandy meets people who are oddly dressed and who speak English, but not... Read more

The Final Reckoning

By: Robin Jarvis

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The hideous spirit of Jupiter, the evil cat who was once lord of the sewer rats, has returned, more terrifying than ever. Bent on revenge for his death, he is determined to turn the world into an eternal winter of hatred. The Deptford Mice feel his chilling grasp everywhere they turn. Their allies are murdered, and the prophetic bats flee,... Read more

The Siege

By: Kathryn Lasky

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Soren’s beloved mentor, Ezylryb, is finally back at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree. But all is not well. There’s a war between good and evil in the owl kingdom. On one side is a group led by Soren’s fearsome brother, Kludd, who wears a terrifying metal mask to cover his battle-scarred face. On the other side are the owls of the Great Ga’Hoole Tree, who... Read more

My Ántonia

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely recognized as Willa Cather’s finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Ántonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska.Through Jim Burden’s endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the... Read more

John Hancock

By: Kathryn Cleven Sisson

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Young Patriots Series The life of John Hancock, contemporary of Samuel Adams and Paul Revere and first person to sign the Declaration of Independence, is featured in this volume of the Young Patriots series. Detailing Hancock's early years, this work focuses on his relationship with boyhood friend, John Adams, and his academic struggles with... Read more

George Rogers Clark

By: Katharine E. Wilkie

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

George Rogers Clark was a famous general in the Revolutionary War, and his explorations served as the inspiration for his younger brother, William, the leader of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. Now you can read about the boyhood of George and share in the first adventures of this lifelong hero.Praised by parents, teachers, and historians,... Read more

Mahalia Jackson

By: Montrew Dunham

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Halie” Jackson grew up in poverty on the levees of New Orleans, hunting for alligators for food along the Mississippi River with her brother, Peter. But every Sunday young Mahalia sang proudly in the church choir, the youngest member at age five. She left school after eighth grade and worked as a maid to help support her family. However, her... Read more

Eddie Rickenbacker

By: Kathryn Cleven Sisson

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker’s first attempt at flight was riding his bicycle off the roof while holding an umbrella! Growing up in the Midwest in the early 1900s, young Eddie, whose parents were Swiss immigrants, worked hard to help support his family but found time to build a “pushmobile,” experience a thrilling ride in a... Read more

James Whitcomb Riley

By: Minnie Belle Mitchell & Montrew Dunham

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Travel back in time to the boyhood of one of the most popular poets of the early twentieth century. Author of "Little Orphan Annie," "The Old Swimmin' Hole," and hundreds more poems, "Bud" Riley spent his childhood in mid-nineteenth century Indiana, where stagecoaches were a common sight, rope swings were the only thrill rides, and telling... Read more