YA Fiction audiobooks

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

Avalon High

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Debra Wiseman

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

I recognized him at once–not just because he was so tall, and there aren’t a lot of guys who are taller than me, but also because he had such a distinctive face. Not handsome, really. But attractive. And nice. And strong-looking.
The weirdest part was, he seemed to recognize me, too, even though he could only have seen me for, like, five seconds... Read more

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

By: Ann Brashares

Narrated by: Amy Povich

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The second novel in the wildly popular #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, from the author of The Whole Thing Together and The Here and Now.

With a bit of last summer’s sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the sisterhood who wears them—Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen—embark on their second summer... Read more

Farmer Giles of Ham

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi. Farmer Giles of Ham is one of Tolkien’s most popular stories, full of wit and humour, set in the days when giants and dragons walked the earth. He did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and enjoyed a slow, comfortable life. Then... Read more

Girl, (Nearly) 16: Absolute Torture

By: Sue Limb

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Just when things were going so well.

Jess had the perfect summer planned: She and Fred, lounging in the park, gazing into one another’s eyes and engaging in witty repartee. It was going to be so romantic. And then her maddening mum stepped in: She suddenly announced a two-week “road trip” to Cornwall to visit Jess’s dad, something Jess might have... Read more

Elsewhere

By: Gabrielle Zevin

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Elsewhere. It is usually warm with a breeze, the sun and the stars shine brightly, and the beaches are marvelous. It’s quiet and peaceful here. And you can’t get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere’s museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe’s... Read more

The Dark Flight Down

By: Marcus Sedgwick

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the morning you should think
You might not last unto the night
In the evening you should think
You might not last unto the morn
Boy has survived the terrors of life with the magician Valerian, dark magic, and deadly chases, but he is still on the run. Now, as the City lies frozen, he is captured and incarcerated in the Emperor Frederick’s... Read more

The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Anand’s mentor and spiritual guide, the Master Healer Abhaydatta, seems to be in grave danger. Should he simply convey this information to his elders and waste precious time or should he take matters into his own hands?

Readers familiar with Anand from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s acclaimed novel, The Conch Bearer, will know what choice he makes.... Read more

Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch (Book 1)

By: Joseph Delaney

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Warning: Not to be listened to after darkCapturing witches, Binding boggarts, Driving away ghostsFor years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil. Now his time is coming to an end. But who will take over for him? Twenty-nine apprentices have tried -- some floundered, some fled, some failed to stay... Read more

Antes de Ser Libres

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Maria Siccardi

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Now available in Spanish, the book Horn Book called “a realistic and compelling account of a girl growing up too quickly while coming to terms with the cost of freedom.” 

I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you don’t have to fly away from your country?

From award-winning author Julia Alvarez comes the story of... Read more

The Kingdom Keepers

By: Ridley Pearson

Narrated by: Gary Littman

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Using a cutting-edge technology called DHI - which stands for both Disney Host Interactive and Daylight Hologram Imaging - Finn Whitman, an Orlando teen, and four other kids are transformed into hologram projections that guide guests through the park. The new technology turns out, however, to have unexpected effects that are both thrilling and... Read more

Best Foot Forward

By: Joan Bauer

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

I’m a real ace at arguing with myself. Take a subject like Tanner Cobb.
On the one hand, he stole.
On the other, he helped his little brother read and count.
Then again, he stole shoes in front of his little brother.
But, he brought the shoes back and offered to make up for what he’d done.
My mind said, Don’t trust him.
... Read more

Ready or Not

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Ariadne Meyers

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

ALL-AMERICAN GIRL 2: READY OR NOT finds Samantha Madison, everyone's favorite national heroine, dealing with life as the girlfriend of the first son, but also her cheerleader sister's romantic problems as well.


"A compelling story with a strong plot line, a little teen angst, a little romance, and great dialogue - and narrator Ariadne Meyers... Read more

GOSSIP GIRL - Abridged

By: Cecily von Ziegesar

Narrated by: Christina Ricci

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Serena van der Woodsen is back from boarding school -- but is she still the Upper East Side's It Girl? The wickedly funny first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit CW show and the HBO Max series.
Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep --... Read more

The Pirates of Pompeii

By: Caroline Lawrence

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

It is late August of ad 79. The Roman world is reeling from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Volcanic ash covers the land, sunsets are blood-red, and the sea gives up corpses of the dead.

At a makeshift camp south of Stabia, hundreds of refugees from the cities around Vesuvius try to come to terms with the disaster. When children begin to go... Read more

Birdland

By: Tracy Mack

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Swirling riffs of language and a propulsive beat set this gritty, transcendent novel in motion.Amid the sparkle and hum of a New York City winter, Jed and his best friend, Flyer, are filming a documentary of their neighborhood. All around them are images that Jed’s older brother Zeke wrote about: drummers, drunks, dog walkers, and the beautiful... Read more

The Legend of the Wandering King

By: Laura Gallego García

Narrated by: Patrick Fraley

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The most dangerous magical object in the history of the world waits quietly in the treasury of a decaying Arabian palace. It knows your name and home and history and fate: it knows the past and future of the entire human race. It is a carpet, an impossible, dazzling carpet, and though a glance at it can drive a man mad, many will risk their... Read more

As Simple as Snow

By: Gregory Galloway

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It begins as a romance between two teenagers searching for a deeper meaning in life in their small town. When the enigmatic Anna—who prefers to go by Anastasia—shows up in the halls of Hamilton High, she changes the narrator's life, opening his mind to Baudelaire and Mozart and revealing a world of magic tricks, ghost stories, and affectionate... Read more

East

By: Edith Pattou

Narrated by: Various

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Rose is the youngest of seven children, meant to replace her dead sister. Maybe because of that, she’s never really fit in. She’s always felt different, out of place, a restless wanderer in a family of homebodies. So when an enormous white bear mysteriously shows up and asks her to come away with it—in exchange for health and prosperity for her... Read more

The Minister's Daughter

By: Julie Hearn

Narrated by: Heather O'Neill

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Conceived on a May Morning, Nell is claimed by the piskies and faeries as a merrybegot, one of their own. She is a wild child: herb gatherer and healer, spell-weaver and midwife . . . and, some say, a witch.
Grace is everything Nell is not. She is the Puritan minister’s daughter: beautiful and refined, innocent and sweet-natured . . . to those... Read more

The Cloud Chamber

By: Joyce Maynard

Narrated by: Joel Johnstone

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The minute the school bus carrying Nate Chance and his little sister, Junie, pulls up in front of his family’s farmhouse, Nate can tell something’s terribly wrong: Somehow his father has been wounded by a gunshot. Nate sees him stagger across the yard, then watches as the police take him away.
Then, nothing. Nobody in the family will say what... Read more

Tiger, Tiger

By: Lynne Reid Banks

Narrated by: Jan Francis

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Two tiger cub brothers are torn from the jungle and taken to Rome. The stronger cub is trained as a killer at the Coliseum. Emperor Caesar makes a gift of the smaller cub to his beautiful daughter, Aurelia. She adores her cub, Boots. Julius, a young animal keeper, teaches Aurelia how to earn Boots’s trust. Boots is pampered while his brother,... Read more

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

By: Ann Brashares

Narrated by: Angela Goethals

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“Funny, perceptive, and moving,” raved USA Today of the first  novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares, author of The Here and Now.

Some friends just fit together.
 
Once there was a pair of pants. Just an ordinary pair of jeans. But these pants, the Traveling Pants, went on to do great... Read more

Acceleration

By: Graham McNamee

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority’s Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. And between Jacob, the cranky old man who runs the place, and the endless dusty boxes overflowing with stuff no one will ever claim, Duncan’s just about had enough. Then... Read more