Children's audiobooks

The Underland Chronicles Book One: Gregor the Overlander

By: Suzanne Collins

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Rich in suspense and brimming with adventure, the New York Times-bestselling Underland Chronicles unfold the fate of the Underland and the great warrior, Gregor. Suzanne Collins is also the author of the bestselling Hunger Games trilogy.

When eleven-year-old Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of their New York... Read more

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

By: Gary D. Schmidt

Narrated by: Sam Freed

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Not only is Turner Buckminster the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, he is shunned for playing baseball differently than the local boys. Then he befriends smart and lively Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from Malaga Island, a poor community founded by former slaves. Lizzie shows Turner a new world along the Maine coast from digging... Read more

Down the Rabbit Hole

By: Peter Abrahams

Narrated by: Mandy Siegfried

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

""My all-time favorite. Astonishing."" (Stephen King)Down the Rabbit Hole is the first book in the Echo Falls mystery series by bestselling crime novelist Peter Abrahams. Perfect for middle school readers looking for a good mystery.Welcome to Echo Falls, home of a thousand secrets. In Down the Rabbit Hole, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill is in... Read more

Kira - Kira

By: Cynthia Kadohata

Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Glittering. That’s how Katie Takeshima’s sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people’s eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it’s Lynn who explains to... Read more

Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo: Books 3 and 4

By: Nancy Krulik

Narrated by: Anne Bobby

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume includes:

Oh, Baby!
When Katie turns into her best friend Suzanne's baby sister, Heather, things are bad enough. But when Katie, as Heather, speaks to Suzanne, Suzanne things that her baby sister is a genius! How will Katie ever explain to Suzanne that it wasn't really Heather doing the talking, without spilling her big secret?

Girls... Read more

Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo: Books 1 and 2

By: Nancy Krulik

Narrated by: Anne Bobby

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume includes:

Book #1: ANYONE BUT ME
Katie Carew is fed up. Everything keeps going wrong. If only she could be anyone but herself! But Katie has to be careful what she wished for . . . it just might come true!

Book #2: OUT TO LUNCH
Katie wished she could be someone else. But she never thought it would come true! It was bad enough being... Read more

Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid

By: Megan McDonald

Narrated by: Nancy Cartwright

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Every morning, Judy measures Stink, and it's always the same: 3 feet, 8 inches tall. Stink feels like even the class newt is growing faster than he is. Then one day, the ruler reads--3 feet, 7 and three-quarter inches! Can it be? Is Stink shrinking? Stink tries everything to look like he's growing, but wearing up-and-down stripes and... Read more

Number Magic

By: Rebecca Brooke

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Dolphin Readers are interactive graded readers specially designed to make developing language skills fun for younger learners. Cross-curricular content stimulates students' interest and maintains their attention, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language points in an entertaining context. Integrated activities encourage... Read more

Numbers, Numbers Everywhere

By: Richard Northcott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Dolphin Readers are interactive graded readers specially designed to make developing language skills fun for younger learners. Cross-curricular content stimulates students' interest and maintains their attention, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language points in an entertaining context. Integrated activities encourage... Read more

When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six

By: A. A. Milne

Narrated by: Peter Dennis

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Blackstone Audio presents, from the unabridged collection "A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics," the forty-four poems from When We Were Very Young and the thirty-five poems of Now We Are Six, performed by Peter Dennis. This is the only reading of these delightful verses authorized by A.A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin.The first of A.A. Milne's four... Read more

Past Perfect, Present Tense

By: Richard Peck

Narrated by: Various

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Though Richard Peck is best known as a novelist, he has been writing short stories—rousing, provocative, and thoroughly entertaining—throughout his career. “Priscilla and the Wimps,” his first, is perhaps the most-read children’s short story of all time. Others have inspired his award-winning novels: A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down... Read more

There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly

By: Child's Play

Narrated by: Child's Play

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Forty years after its first publication this much-loved Child's Play classic is as popular as ever. Ingenious die-cut holes bring this iconic nursery rhyme to life, and Pam Adams' fabulous illustrations lend humour and vibrancy to the proceedings. Bouncy images, innovative die cutting and favourite rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every... Read more

A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman

By: David Adler

Narrated by: Gail Nelson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Gail Nelson is an unobtrusive narrator who lets Harriet Tubman's deeds and personality speak for themselves. And speak they do! "-- AudioFile Read more

A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass

By: David Adler

Narrated by: Charles Turner

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"Adler, a prolific children's book author, has done a good job describing the trajectory of Douglass's life as he moved from being a slave himself to being a freer of slaves and a tireless civil rights activist. Narrator Charles Turner, who has a deep and resonant voice, uses just the right matter-of-fact yet serious tones that won't overwhelm... Read more

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #1: Wolf Brother

By: Michelle Paver

Narrated by: Ian McKellan

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fantasy adventure on a grand scale, with a wealth of wilderness lore and convincing characterizations.” —BooklistFans of Fablehaven and City of Ember will devour Michelle Paver’s bestselling fantasy series about one boy’s epic fight against evil and the wolf who guides him.Six thousand years ago. Powerful mages stalk the land, threatening to... Read more

The Witch's Boy

By: Michael Gruber

Narrated by: Denis O'Hare

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A wondrous journey through the realms of magicThey call him Lump. Ugly, misshapen -- more goblin than human child -- abandoned as an infant and taken in by a witch, he is nursed by a bear, tutored by a djinn; his only playmates are the creatures of the forest, whose language he learns to speak.But when Lump inevitably stumbles into the human... Read more

Gebrauchsanweisung für Polen (Ungekürzt)

By: Radek Knapp

Narrated by: Marietta Slomka

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ein empfehlenswertes Hörbuch für alle, die von Polen mehr wissen möchten." Deutschlandfunk Besuchen Sie Polen. Ein Land, das nicht nur den Kommunismus besiegt hat, sondern auch über das skurrilste Bärengehege der Welt verfügt. Und das immer noch sehr katholisch ist. Wo sonst hieße einer der einflußreichsten Sender des Landes Radio Maria?... Read more

Gebrauchsanweisung für das Ruhrgebiet (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Peter Erik Hillenbach

Narrated by: Stephanie Überall & Gerburg Jahnke

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das Ruhrgebiet, das ist Kulturhauptstadt, U-Turm und Zollverein, Aufbruchstimmung und Zukunft, aber auch Opel und Karstadt: gestern Stahlwerk, heute Baustelle, morgen Marina. Hier leben sie alle zusammen: Menschen, die ihre Pulle Export und ihre Packung Zigaretten "anne Bude" kaufen, die Fans aus der Südtribüne, der Oppa im Schrebergarten ebenso... Read more

The Waterless Sea

By: Kate Constable

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The second novel in the captivating Chanters of Tremaris trilogy follows Calwyn and her friends to the desolate Merithuran Empire. As they search for a group of kidnapped children who have the gift of chantment, they must negotiate both the unforgiving desert and the even more treacherous Palace of cobwebs, where they uncover the dreadful... Read more

Agnes Parker... Girl in Progress

By: Kathleen O'Dell

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven-year-old Agnes Parker has always been your everyday girl. But this year, Agnes is determined to become a whole new person. Maybe not a whole new person exactly, but just a better version of the girl she’s always been. Someone who’s not such an easy target for bullygirls like Peggy Neidermeyer. Someone who is as cool and confident as her... Read more

The Mysterious Visitor

By: Julie Campbell

Narrated by: Ariadne Meyers

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Trixie and Diana Lynch were friends for years before Di’s family became fabulously rich. So when Di’s long-lost uncle starts ruining her social life, Di turns to her old friend for help. But Trixie thinks Uncle Monty isn’t just an annoying relative–she thinks he’s an impostor! Read more

The Merchant of Death

By: D. J. MacHale

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

D.J. MacHale’s New York Times bestselling middle grade fantasy series about Bobby Pendragon, a regular kid about to find himself and his two friends pulled into one epic adventure across worlds!Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very... Read more

Adam Canfield of the Slash

By: Michael Winerip

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, Adam Canfield has been the number-one star reporter for the Harris Elementary/Middle School paper, the Slash. Nowadays he’s also the most overprogrammed kid in America. Gladiator quiz bowl, jazz band, statewide test prep class—he’s always running somewhere, and nine times out of ten, running late. When does a guy get time to just... Read more

The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders

By: Jack Prelutsky

Narrated by: Jack Prelutsky

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Twenty-eight rollicking rhymes from the undisputed master of hilarious verse for children, Jack Prelutsky, are found in this uproarious poetry collection. In this collection there are tongue-twisting (but real) places to visit, such as Tuscaloosa and Winnemucca. There are remarkable sights, such as an elephant perched in a sycamore tree. And... Read more