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

Beyond the Gender Binary

By: Alok Vaid-Menon

Narrated by: Alok Vaid-Menon

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 In The Margins Award
 
"When reading this book, all I feel is kindness."-- Sam Smith, Grammy and Oscar award-winning singer and songwriter
 
"Thank God we have Alok. And I'm learning a thing or two myself."--Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning actor, singer, and Broadway theater performer

"Beyond the Gender Binary will give readers... 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

The 57 Bus

By: Dashka Slater

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting New York Times bestseller and Stonewall Book Award winner that will make you rethink all you know about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment. Artfully, compassionately, and expertly told, Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus is a must-read nonfiction book for teens that chronicles the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by... Read more

We Are Not Broken

By: George M Johnson

Narrated by: George M Johnson

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

George M. Johnson, activist and bestselling author ofAll Boys Aren't Blue, returns with a striking memoir that celebrates Black boyhood and brotherhood in all its glory.

This is the vibrant story of George, Garrett, Rall, and Rasul -- four children raised by Nanny, their fiercely devoted grandmother. The boys hold one another close through early... Read more

Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

By: Paul Noble

Narrated by: Paul Noble

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. This course covers European and Latin American Spanish. Take a... Read more

Apple

By: Eric Gansworth

Narrated by: Eric Gansworth

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

How about a book that makes you barge into your boss's office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way?The term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside.Eric Gansworth is... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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