YA Nonfiction audiobooks


Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!
A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America
This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race.
The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep... Read more


All Boys Aren't Blue
By: George M. Johnson
Narrated by: George M. Johnson
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.
A New York Times Bestseller!
Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature stories
From... Read more


Off The Map
By: Meriwether Lewis
Narrated by: Pat Grimes
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Lewis and Clark's famous 1804 expedition was told with great detail by the explorers themselves in an eight-volume account. Now young historians have the opportunity to learn the thrills, challenges, and adventures in a version accessible for them. Two years' worth of entries are condensed into a flowing account that maintains the historical... Read more
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Bless the Blood
By: Walela Nehanda
Narrated by: Walela Nehanda
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout.
When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into... Read more


Revolution in Our Time
By: Kekla Magoon
Narrated by: Tyla Collier
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as militant revolutionaries and as human rights advocates working to defend and protect their community.
In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers’ community... Read more


Flamboyants
By: George M. Johnson
Narrated by: George M. Johnson
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author and features music from Josephine Baker, Gladys Bentley, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Ethel Waters to enhance the listening experience.
From the New York Times–bestselling author of All Boys Aren’t Blue comes an empowering set of essays about Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance.
In Flamboyants,... Read more


Look What You Made Me Do
By: Kat McKenna
Narrated by: Jade Ewen
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
What does it mean to be a FAN?
If you're a Swiftie, you know that it takes commitment and dedication to be in a fandom. And there's nothing more rewarding than sourcing news and updates, anticipating new music and meeting fellow fans. But fan culture today is more intense than ever, from trolling to stalkers to online warfare.
So how did we get... Read more


SHOUT
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
Narrated by: Laurie Halse Anderson
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller and one of 2019's best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!
Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by... Read more


How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
By: Tony Keith Jr.
Narrated by: Tony Keith Jr.
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Odyssey Award for Audiobook Excellence WinnerPoet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. Perfect for... Read more
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The Redhead of Auschwitz
By: Nechama Birnbaum
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz.Upon arrival, Rosie’s head is shaved... Read more
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Don't Look Back
By: Achut Deng & Keely Hutton
Narrated by: Nedra Marie Taylor
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up.
I want life.
After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in... Read more


What the Fact?
By: Seema Yasmin
Narrated by: Seema Yasmin
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed writer, journalist, and physician Dr. Seema Yasmin comes a “savvy, accessible, and critical” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the importance of media literacy, fact-based reporting, and the ability to discern truth from lies.
What is a fact? What are reliable sources? What is news? What is fake news? How can anyone make... Read more


Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States
By: J. Albert Mann
Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Stamped and An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People, Albert J. Mann’s Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States is an accessible and comprehensive YA history of the way the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.“Mann... Read more
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Abuela, Don't Forget Me
By: Rex Ogle
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
I say, “Te amo siempre.”
And she says, “I love you more.”
And I say, “Impossible.”
Abuela, Don’t Forget Me is Rex Ogle’s portrait of his grandmother, the one adult he could count on when he was a child—and who is now forgetting him as dementia takes hold of her.
In his award-winning Free Lunch and Punching Bag, Rex charted a coming of age marked by... Read more


Gender Queer
By: Maia Kobabe
Narrated by: Maia Kobabe, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Graybill, ...
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book
The ground-breaking, bestselling graphic novel is now available on audio.
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only... Read more


Start Here
By: Alex Harris, Brett Harris & Elisa Stanford
Narrated by: Alex Harris & Brett Harris
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
You want to do hard things.
But you don’t know where to start.
You are changing the world around you.
But you are tired and burned out.
You feel called to do the extraordinary for God.
But you feel stuck in the ordinary.
Do Hard Things inspired thousands of young people around the world to make the most of the teen years. Now Alex and Brett... Read more


The War to End All Wars
By: Russell Freedman
Narrated by: Zach McLarty
Length: 3 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Nonfiction master Russell Freedman illuminates for young readers the complex and rarely discussed subject of World War I. The tangled relationships and alliances of many nations, the introduction of modern weaponry, and top-level military decisions that resulted in thousands upon thousands of casualties all contributed to the "great war," which... Read more
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Blizzard of Glass
By: Sally M. Walker
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
December 6, 1917, started like any other day in Halifax. But everything stopped shortly before nine o’clock that morning, when two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One of the ships was loaded with munitions for the troops fighting in Europe; the other was preparing to collect medical supplies for the war’s victims.
The resulting disaster was... Read more


The Notorious Benedict Arnold
By: Steve Sheinkin
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
On a bitter cold day in January 1741 Benedict Arnold was born. Little did anyone know that he would grow up to become the most infamous villain in American history. But first, he would be one of the country’s greatest war heroes. Fearless in the line of fire, a genius at strategy and motivating his men, General Arnold was America’s first action... Read more
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
By: Candace Fleming
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Eugene Alper, Mark Deakins, Juli...
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.” —The Wall Street... Read more
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Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation)
By: Laura Hillenbrand
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian's courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history's most thrilling... Read more
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Most Dangerous
By: Steve Sheinkin
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From Steve Sheinkin, the award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Bomb comes a tense, exciting exploration of what the Times deemed "the greatest story of the century": how Daniel Ellsberg transformed from obscure government analyst into "the most dangerous man in America," and risked everything to expose the government's deceit. On June... Read more
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Popular
By: Maya Van Wagenen
Narrated by: Amber Faith & Lee Adams
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout teen author Maya Van WagenenStuck at the bottom of the social ladder at “pretty much the lowest level of people at school who aren’t paid to be here,” Maya Van Wagenen decided to begin a unique social experiment: spend the school year following a 1950s popularity guide, written by... Read more
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Hitler Youth
By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Narrated by: Kathrin Kana
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, thanks largely to the efforts of the Hitler Youth, whose organized propaganda marches throughout Germany helped the Nazi Party grow in strength. By 1939, it is estimated that more than seven million boys and girls belonged to the Hitler Youth.
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in... Read more