YA Nonfiction audiobooks
Jaguar und Neinguar. Gedichte von Paul Maar
By: Paul Maar
Narrated by: Andreas Fröhlich, Oliver Korittke, Laura Maire,...
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Gereimt, gerüttelt und geschüttelt! Paul Maar poetisch - gelesen von prominenten Hörbuchsprechern Kluge Katzen, Mäuse in der Badewanne, Drachen, Feuersalamander, das Sams und Jaguar und Neinguar: ein Lyrikschatz mit 50 frechen, nachdenklichen und poetischen Gedichten von Paul Maar, abwechslungsreich gelesen und aufwendig mit Musik begleitet.... Read more
View audiobookFinding Iris Chang
By: Paula Kamen
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Iris Chang, bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking and tireless human rights activist, symbolized strength to many in the literary and social justice worlds. Her fearlessness made it all the more shocking when she committed suicide in 2004 at age thirty-six.Longtime friend and confidante Paula Kamen, author of the critically acclaimed All in... Read more
View audiobookJim Thorpe, Original All-American
By: Joseph Bruchac
Narrated by: Joseph Bruchac
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes who ever lived. He played professional football, Major League b aseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track and field. He’ll forever be remembered by the sports community and by his Native American community, who consider him a hero on par with Crazy Horse.
Born on the Sac and Fox Reservation in... Read more
Ana's Story
By: Jenna Bush Hager
Narrated by: Jenna Bush Hager
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
She's seventeen. She's been abused. She has a child. And she's HIV-positive.She is Ana, and this is her story. It begins the day she is born infected with HIV, transmitted from her young mother. Now she barely remembers her mamá, who died when Ana was only three. From then on, Ana's childhood becomes a blur of faint memories and secrets—secrets... Read more
View audiobookHitler 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
Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen (Ungekürzt)
By: Sönke Wortmann
Narrated by: Stefan Gebelhoff
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Ein Traum ging in Erfüllung - nicht nur für Fußballdeutschland, sondern auch für einen der renommiertesten deutschen Filmregisseuren: Sönke Wortmann. Er erhielt die einzigartige Chance, so nah wie kaum ein anderer die Nationalelf auf ihrem Weg durch die Fußballweltmeisterschaft zu begleiten. In seinem WM-Tagebuch erzählt Sönke Wortmann das... Read more
View audiobookGeorge Rogers Clark
By: Katharine E. Wilkie
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
George Rogers Clark was a famous general in the Revolutionary War, and his explorations served as the inspiration for his younger brother, William, the leader of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. Now you can read about the boyhood of George and share in the first adventures of this lifelong hero.Praised by parents, teachers, and historians,... Read more
View audiobookKing of the Mild Frontier
By: Chris Crutcher
Narrated by: Chris Crutcher
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Do You Know:
•A good reason to be phobic about oysters and olives?
•That you can step inside a roaring coal furnace and feet cool?
•That Jesus had an older brother?
•How shutting your mouth can help you avoid brain surgery?
•How to avoid cow-pies during your baptism?
•How to survive in the winter wilderness with only a fishing pole and a sausage?... Read more
Bad Boy
By: Walter Dean Myers
Narrated by: Joe Morton
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A classic memoir that's gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable from the bestselling former National Ambassador of Books for Young People. A strong choice for summer reading—an engaging and powerful autobiographical exploration of growing up a so-called ""bad boy"" in Harlem in the 1940s.As a boy, Myers was quick-tempered and physically... Read more
View audiobookA Thousand Shall Fall
By: Susi Hasel Mundy
Narrated by: Lauren Mazzio & Nicholas Mazzio
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The Electrifying True Testimony of Franz Hasel Dramatically narrated with original cinematic score.Pacifist Franz Hasel was drafted into one of Hitler’s elite troops to build bridges at the front lines. Just before he was sent deep into Russia – where all but seven of his 1,200 man unit would die – he secretly discarded his gun, fearing that, as... Read more
View audiobookCheaper By the Dozen
By: Frank B. Gilbreth
Narrated by: Dana Ivey & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Count 'em–a dozen carrot topped, freckle-faced kids. Dad, a jovial optimist, successful inventor and efficiency expert is fond of doing his work at home. Mom, a psychologist, is busy putting everything she knows into practice.
Listen along and discover the strange things that happen when Dad's experiments run awry…how Frank Jr. gets left behind... Read more
Hole In My Life
By: Jack Gantos
Narrated by: Jack Gantos
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer desperate for adventure, college cash, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents finally caught... Read more
View audiobookMiss Daisy - Abridged
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An eccentric schoolteacher and a widow-lady babysitter are the heroines in these new digital studio recordings of Donald Davis' two all-time most-requested stories. "It was the 42nd year she had taught fourth grade", yet there was nothing routine about Miss Daisy or her methods. Rather than settle for textbook work (Miss Daisy left textbooks in... Read more
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