Children's audiobooks

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

By: David Lubar

Narrated by: Ryan MacConnell

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Dunk comes this sparkling new novel that covers a year in the life of high school freshmen Scott Hudson, who is sideswiped by the unexpected news that his mother is about to have another baby. In a hilarious and touching journal addressed to the unborn intruder, Scott bares his soul as he copes with the trials and tribulations... Read more

Benjamin Blümchen, Folge 104: Die Zoo-Olympiade

By: Elfie Donnelly

Narrated by: Jürgen Kluckert & Gunter Schoß

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Stella und Otto finden, dass Benjamin zugenommen hat! Er ist empört. Doch als die Waage unter seinem Gewicht kaputtgeht, sieht er es ein. Von nun an gilt: Gesünder ernähren und vor allem viel bewegen! Aber wie kann man abnehmen und Spaß dabei haben? Ganz einfach: Alle - auch die Tiere - machen bei einer Zoo-Olympiade mit! Read more

The Light Princess

By: George MacDonald

Narrated by: Cynthia Bishop

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a well known fact that a new-born princess will often be subject to a curse—especially if her royal parents neglect to invite an important magical relative to the christening. But never has there been a curse as charming (and hilarious) as that which befalls the Light Princess. Deprived of gravity, she can’t take anything—or... 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

Hans Brinker

By: Mary Mapes Dodge

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the Netherlands, the beautiful land of windmills, tulips, and wooden shoes, this timeless story relates the adventures of the impoverished but virtuous Brinker family. Young Hans and Gretel work toward two goals: finding the doctor who can restore their father’s memory, and winning the competition for the silver skates. Their good deeds... Read more

Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates

By: Howard Pyle & Merle Johnson

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Pirates, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main, all live in present-day conceptions in great degree as drawn by the pen and pencil of Howard Pyle…It is improbable that anyone else will ever bring his combination of interest and talent to the depiction of these old-time Pirates, any more... Read more

The Little Colonel

By: Annie Fellows Johnston

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the prettiest part of Kentucky, an old Southern family is torn apart by tragedy. When his beloved daughter married a Yankee, the Old Colonel disowned her and has not spoken a word to her or even laid eyes on his granddaughter. The old man’s heart turned hard as stone and children fear him. Hard times have befallen his daughter, and there is... Read more

The Magnificent Mummy Maker

By: Elvira Woodruff

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Has a mummy's spirit really moved into Andy's body?!What do you do when it seems like everyone in your family has done something magnificent—everyone, that is, except you? That's Andy's problem. He just wants to do something special.When his class visits an Egyptian exhibit, he figures it'll be just another field trip. But he's wrong, because... Read more

Bluish

By: Virginia Hamilton

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Friendship isn't always easy. Natalie is different from the other kids in Dreenie's fifth-grade class. She comes to school in a wheelchair. She always wears a knitted hat. And she's allowed to bring her puppy to class. The kids in the class call Natalie "Bluish" because her skin is tinted blue from chemotherapy. Dreenie is fascinated by Bluish... Read more

The Princess Pocahontas

By: Virginia Watson

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Every schoolchild knows the story of how Pocahontas saved the life of Captain John Smith, but that’s not the whole story.The Native American princess Pocahontas was born near the end of the sixteenth century as the daughter of Powhatan, chief of the Powhatan confederacy. It was Pocahontas, known as Matoaka by her clan, who interceded on behalf... 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

The Lost Prince

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“In every nook and cranny, high and low, they sought for him…he had vanished as a star vanishes when it drops from its place in the sky.”From the author of such children’s classics as The Secret Garden and A Little Princess comes this enchanting story of a young boy discovering his true destiny.Twelve-year-old Marco knows he is being trained for... Read more

Born Confused

By: Tanuja Desai Hidier

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Dimple Lala doesn't know what to think. Her parents are from India, and she's spent her whole life resisting their traditions. Then suddenly she gets to high school and everything Indian is trendy. Now things are more complicated than ever. At seventeen, she's still recovering from a year-old break up and her best friend isn't around the way she... Read more

Calendar Quest

By: Jennifer Johnson Garrity

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

What do bald men in skirts, ancient geeks, pompous popes, and bickering bishops have in common? They all took part in shaping the calendar that hangs on your wall. Together with a host of famous and not-so-famous characters, they adjusted, fine-tuned, and tinkered around with what would eventually become the western world’s most popular tool for... Read more

The Capture

By: Kathryn Lasky

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Soren is born in the forest of Tyto, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, evil that threatens to change Soren’s life forever.Soren is captured and taken to a dark and forbidding canyon where there is a mysterious school. It’s called an orphanage, but Soren believes it’s something far worse.He and his new... Read more

Messer Marco Polo

By: Donn Byrne

Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine the kingdom of Asia sifted through the Celtic imagination. Messer Marco Polo is the fictionalized account of the travels of Marco Polo as told by Malichi Campbell, an Ulsterman.Young Marco Polo meets Kubla Khan, the King of Siam, and Saint Paul, and he falls in love with the beautiful Golden Bells. After her magicians save him from death... Read more

The Journey

By: Kathryn Lasky

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in this enchanting series continues this classic hero mythology about the battle between good and evil and chronicles Soren’s quest for nobility.It began as a dream, a quest for the Great Ga’Hoole Tree, a mythic place where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds. There Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger hope to... 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

Drawing Lessons

By: Tracy Mack

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Aurora is an artist like her father. Through a hundred drawing lessons, he has guided her hand, trained her eye, taught her how to mix colors and achieve perspective. Together they plan to paint a beautiful mural for Rory's mother, maybe a sunset because she always misses the real sunset while she's at her job, supporting the... Read more