YA Fiction audiobooks

The Uninvited

By: Tim Wynne-Jones

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mimi Shapiro needs to get away. From New York City, from NYU. And from the professor who let things go too far. So when her artist father, Marc, offers his cottage in a remote part of Canada, she gladly hops in her Mini Cooper and drives north. Way up north.The little house is fairy-tale quaint, and the key is hidden right where her dad said it... Read more

Metamorphosis: Junior Year

By: Betsy Franco

Narrated by: James Franco & David Franco

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Ovid’s got a lot on his mind, and he pours it all into the pages of a notebook. Inspired by his namesake, he wryly records his classmates’ dramas as modern-day Roman mythology. There’s Sophie and Caleb, the Psyche and Cupid of cyber-couples; poetic Paula, who pursues filmmaker Franny like Apollo chasing Daphne; and graphic-novelist Duwayne, a... Read more

Swim the Fly

By: Don Calame

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Three adolescent boys with a single goal: see a real live naked girl. The result? Razor-sharp, rapid-fire, and raunchy, of course. And beyond hilarious.Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time—quite a challenge,... Read more

Punkzilla

By: Adam Rapp

Narrated by: Matthew Stadelmann

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Fourteen-year-old Jamie, aka “Punkzilla,” is on a mission: to see his older brother, Peter (“P”), before P dies of cancer. Hopping a bus while still buzzing from his last hit of meth, Jamie embarks on a days-long bus trip from Portland, Oregon, to Memphis, Tennessee, writing letters to his family and friends—letters so honest he may never send... Read more

After Ever After

By: Jordan Sonnenblick

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey isn't a little boy with cancer anymore. He's a teen who's in remission, but life still feels fragile. The aftereffects of treatment have left Jeffrey with an inability to be a great student or to walk without limping. His parents still worry about him. His older brother, Steven, lost it and took off to Africa to be in a drumming circle... Read more

Notes from the Midnight Driver

By: Jordan Sonnenblick

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Just when you thought you had it all figured out . . ."Alex Peter Gregory, you are a moron!" Laurie slammed her palms down on my desk and stomped her foot. I get a lot of that.One car crash. One measly little car crash. And suddenly, I'm some kind of convicted felon.My parents are getting divorced, my dad is shacking up with my third-grade... Read more

Carter's Big Break

By: Brent Crawford

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

School is finally over, and Will Carter has (barely) survived his freshman year. Unfortunately, he quickly learns that the summer break he’s been craving just might break him. When he and his girlfriend, Abby, part ways, Carter can’t help but think his summer is ruined.Things start to look up after he’s unexpectedly cast in an independent film... Read more

Carter's Unfocused, One-Track Mind

By: Brent Crawford

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

After an eventful freshman year and a disastrous summer, fifteen-year-old Will Carter returns to Merrian High none the wiser. The year starts off pretty normally. He’s back on the football field (the bench area of the field). He and his boys start a fight club to defend themselves against Scary Terry Moss, who is out of juvie and hunting Carter.... Read more

Bruiser

By: Neal Shusterman

Narrated by: Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd, Luke Daniels & Laura Ha...

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

TennysonDon’t get me started on the Bruiser. He was voted “Most Likely to Get the Death Penalty” by the entire school. He’s the kid no one knows, no one talks to, and everyone hears disturbing rumors about. So why is my sister, Brontë, dating him? One of these days she’s going to take in the wrong stray dog, and it’s not going to end... Read more

Wonderland

By: Joanna Nadin

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen-year-old Jude has to get out of tiny Churchtown. She has to escape her outcast status at the Royal Duchy School and her pathetic dad, who hasn’t gotten past her mum’s death. The only bright light is drama, her way out, if only she can get into the Lab in London. It takes a lot of nerve to apply to such a prestigious program, and Jude’s... Read more

Keeper

By: Mal Peet

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In a small newspaper office in South America, Paul Faustino, a veteran sports reporter, begins an exclusive interview with El Gato, the World Cup-winning soccer phenom. Over the course of the long night, El Gato tells the story of how an unspectacular teenager in a poor logging town became the world's most accomplished goalkeeper. It is a tale... Read more

The Penalty

By: Mal Peet

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat, its teenage soccer prodigy, El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without a trace—right after he misses a penalty kick and loses a big game for his team. Paul Faustino, South America's top sports reporter, is reluctantly drawn into the mystery of the athlete's disappearance. As a... Read more

Pick-Up Game

By: Marc Aronson & Charles R. Smith Jr.

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s one single steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise known as the Cage. Hotshot baller ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco, a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling, and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch-tall Chester. Nine of YA literature’s top writers... Read more

Eli the Good

By: Silas House

Narrated by: Silas House

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The summer of 1976 should have been the best of times for nature-loving Eli Book, but instead it is filled with terrible changes. His sister begins to hate her country. His beautiful but distant mother is caught between his traumatized Vietnam War vet father and his former antiwar protester aunt, who has come to live with them. And the only... Read more

Masters of Disaster

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Mosley decides that he and his pals Riley and Reed need to go on some earth-shaking adventures and make a name for themselves. Henry is the mastermind; Riley’s the researcher who’s prepared for anything. And somehow fearful Reed always ends up with the scariest, craziest assignments. Roped into wacky attempts to break world records,... Read more

Liar, Liar

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Kevin has a big talent. Some might call it compulsive lying. He calls it common sense.Kev doesn’t mean to cause trouble by lying all the time; he’s just trying to make everything easier for everyone (and himself). And, of course, a few harmless, um, falsehoods are crucial to his plan to convince Tina that he’s the perfect boyfriend for her.In... Read more

How Angel Peterson Got His Name

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

WHEN YOU GROW up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt:• Shooting waterfalls in a barrel• The first skateboarding• Breaking the world record for speed on skis by being towed behind a souped-up car, and then . .... Read more

The Legend of Bass Reeves

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Cowboy stories and movies about the Wild West are full of amazing characters. Yet many of the lawmen we think of as heroes were anything but — some were violent scoundrels and outlaws themselves. Among all the lawmen of the frontier, one man stands out as a true hero: Bass Reeves. In his day, Bass Reeves was the most successful federal... Read more

Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Gary Paulsen

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An experienced Iditarod racer, Gary Paulsen celebrates his lead dog and longtime companion, Cookie, in this intimate essay. Paulsen takes readers inside the kennel as Cookie's last litter of pups grow and learn to pull sleds across the snowy frontier. Read more

The Amazing Life of Birds

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

I should have seen it coming. A long time before it came I should have known. I was six or seven years old and there was a girl living next door named Peggy. She was a year older than me and a lot stronger and we were wrestling and she held me down.... All of a sudden it seemed there was something about girls that wasn’t all bad. I didn’t... Read more

This Dark Endeavor

By: Kenneth Oppel

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Victor Frankenstein leads a charmed life. He and his twin brother, Konrad, and their beautiful cousin Elizabeth take lessons at home and spend their spare time fencing and horseback riding. Along with their friend Henry, they have explored all the hidden passageways and secret rooms of the palatial Frankenstein chateau. Except one.The Dark... Read more

Such Wicked Intent

By: Kenneth Oppel

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Devotion turns deadly in this second Gothic thriller from Printz Honor-winner Kenneth Oppel that is "every bit as thrilling and engaging" (VOYA) as This Dark Endeavor.When does obsession become madness? Tragedy has forced sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein to swear off alchemy forever. He burns the Dark Library. He vows he will never dabble in... Read more

Blink & Caution

By: Tim Wynne-Jones

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Two street kids get tangled in a plot over their heads—and risk an unexpected connection—in this heart-pounding thriller by Tim Wynne-Jones.Boy, did Blink get off on the wrong floor. All he wanted was to steal some breakfast for his empty belly, but instead he stumbled upon a fake kidnapping and a cell phone dropped by an "abducted" CEO, giving... Read more

The Piper's Son

By: Melina Marchetta

Narrated by: Michael Finney

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Two years after his favorite uncle was blown to bits in a London Tube station, Tom has hit rock bottom. He’s quit school and turned his back on his music and everyone that once mattered to him, including the girl he can’t forget. Living with his single, pregnant aunt, working at the Union pub with his former friends, and reckoning with his... Read more