The Fires of Merlin
By: T.A. Barron
Narrated by: Kevin Isola
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The third audiobook in The Lost Years of Merlin series finds Merlin facing his greatest challenge yet in order to save the realm.
Long ago on the magical island of Fincayra, the last emperor of the dragons took revenge against the realm for the slaughter of his mate and their only offspring. Merlin's grandfather--a mighty wizard--saved the land... Read more
Pop Princess - Abridged
By: Rachel Cohn
Narrated by: Christy Carlson Romano
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Fifteen-year-old Wonder Blake and her family are trying to recover from the death of Wonder's older sister Lucky, who was about to sign a major record deal when she died. When Lucky's talent manager runs into Wonder at the Dairy Queen where she works, her life takes a dramatic turn--suddenly, despite her own ambivalence, she is the one signing... Read more
View audiobookPirates!
By: Celia Rees
Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
It is the dawn of the eighteenth century, when girls stay home and sew while men sail the high seas finding adventure, danger, and gold. But two unusually adventurous girls--a rich merchant's daughter, Nancy Kington, and her former plantation slave, Minerva Sharpe--take to the high seas from Jamaica on a shop the crew renames Deliverance. Not... Read more
View audiobookBless the Beasts & Children
By: Glendon Swarthout
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
“Send Us A Boy. . . We’ll Send You A Cowboy!” is the slogan of the Box County Boy’s Camp. But for the nail-biters, thumb-suckers and teeth-grinders—the cast-away offspring of parents who are busy traveling, being divorced, remarrying, and garnering fortunes—it’s just another place to find rejection. The other campers and counselors pick upon... Read more
View audiobookRomeo and Juliet - Abridged
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Claire Bloom & Albert Finney
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers -PrologueRomeo and Juliet was Shakespeare's first great tragedy, a richly lyrical love story that has long been one of the author's most popular plays for performer and audience alike. Romeo and Juliet is a simple but dramatic cautionary tale about the blindness that both love and hate can engender. As performed... Read more
View audiobookA Midsummer Night's Dream - Abridged
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Paul Scofield & (Null) Cast
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
""How shall we beguile the lazy time,if not with some delight?""
Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the WildThings Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Discseries. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloom accompanies the CD. Read more
Brian's Hunt
By: Gary Paulsen
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Brian sets out on the hunt of a lifetime in this follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen!
Brian Robeson has stood up to the challenge of surviving the wilderness in Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter, and Brian's Return. Now, while camping alone on a lake in the woods, he finds a... Read more
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Abridged
By: Libba Bray
Narrated by: Joanna Wyatt
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The first book in the critically acclaimed New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, the exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and Going Bovine.
It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence,... Read more
Aleutian Sparrow
By: Karen Hesse
Narrated by: Sarah Jones
Length: 1 hour 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Vera, a young Aleut girl who lives with an elderly couple on a larger island so that she can attend school, returns home for the summer of 1942 to visit her mother and friends. But when the Japanese launch an air attack on the Aleutian Islands, the U.S. government reacts by "evacuating" most of the Aleut population. Vera and her village are... Read more
View audiobookTrickster's Choice
By: Tamora Pierce
Narrated by: Trini Alvarado
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is... Read more
View audiobookThe Lost Years of Merlin
By: T.A. Barron
Narrated by: Michael Cumpsty
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Spat out by the sea, the boy lay on the rocks, as still as death. Even if he survived the day, he had no home. No memory. And no name.
So begins the tale of the strange young boy, who having washed up on the shores of ancient Wales, is determined to find his real home and his true name. One day he will become the greatest wizard of all time, but... Read more
The Princess Diaries, Volume I: The Princess Diaries
By: Meg Cabot
Narrated by: Anne Hathaway
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom…
News flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo always meets her at the airport!)
Downer: Dad can't have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.)
Shock of the century: Like it or not, Mia is prime princess material.
The worst part: Princess lessons from her dreaded grandmere,... Read more
Cut
By: Patricia McCormick
Narrated by: Clea Lewis
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: No
Fifteen-year-old Callie is so withdrawn that she's not speaking to anyone, including her therapist at the residential treatment facility where her parents and doctor send her after discovering that she cuts herself. Her story unfolds primarily through dramatic monologues, gradually revealing the family turmoil that led to her self-destructive... Read more
View audiobookMilkweed
By: Jerry Spinelli
Narrated by: Ron Rifkin
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning novel of the Holocaust from Newbery Medalist, Jerry Spinelli. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday!
He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham.
He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in... Read more
Fastback Beach
By: Shirlee Smith Matheson
Narrated by: Iambik Productions
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Miles Derkach is in trouble. Along with two friends, he stole a car and went joyriding. When the dust clears, he is all alone and his friends have left, leaving him to take the blame—and the punishment—while maintaining his silence. Placed on probation and sentenced to community service, Miles begins working for a man who after suffering a... Read more
View audiobookFat Kid Rules the World
By: K. L. Going
Narrated by: Matthew Lillard
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Troy Billings, at six-foot-one, 296 pounds, is standing at the edge of a subway platform, seriously contemplating suicide, when he meets Curt MacCrae - and emaciated, semi-homeless punk guitar genius who also happens to be a dropout legend at Troy's high school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
"I saved your life, " Curt tells Troy. "You owe... Read more
Stand Tall
By: Joan Bauer
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch 12-year-old, copes with his parents’ recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school. Read more
View audiobookHope Was Here
By: Joan Bauer
Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A Newbery Honor Book
Food is in 16-year-old Hope’s blood. With her Aunt Addie, diner cook extraordinaire, she travels the States and hones her waitressing skills, impressing hungry people everywhere. But following the tides of comfort food dining means Hope never gets to stay in one place very long, and that's tough.
The latest move threatens... Read more
Feed
By: M. T. Anderson
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker, John Beach, Tara Sands & Ann...
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
"This satire offers a thought-provoking and scathing indictment that may prod readers to examine the more sinister possibilities of corporate- and media-dominated culture." —Publishers Weekly(starred review)
For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon — a chance to party during spring break and play with some... Read more
Haunted
By: Meg Cabot
Narrated by: Alanna Ubach
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
My name is Susannah Simon, and I am a mediator--a liaison between the living and the dead. If you think this gets in the way of my attempt at a normal sixteen-year-old, you'd be right. You try going to the mall while constantly being accosted by the undead.
Not that this is a bad thing all the time. Like, for example, when I discovered my... Read more
The Silent Boy
By: Lois Lowry
Narrated by: Karen Allen
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Precocious Katy Thatcher comes to realize what a gentle, silent boy did for his family. He meant to help, not harm. It didn’t turn out that way.
“The author balances humor and generosity with the obstacles and injustice of Katy’s world to depict a complete picture of the turn of the 20th century.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Read more
Keeper of the Night
By: Kimberly Willis Holt
Narrated by: Vivian B. McLaughlin
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
“In a series of exquisitely presented snapshots, a young teen struggles to cope with the aftermath of her mother’s suicide. . . . Stunningly beautiful.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred
“Readers are drawn into Isabel’s world and her determination to keep on going in the face of her overwhelming loss and responsibilities.”—School Library Journal, Starred
An... Read more
Abhorsen
By: Garth Nix
Narrated by: Tim Curry
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Before she went to join Sam and Mogget downstairs, Lirael paused for a moment to look at herself in the tall silver mirror that hung on the wall of her room. The image that faced her bore little resemblance to the Second Assistant Librarian of the Clayr. She saw a warlike and grim young woman, dark hair bound back with a silver cord rather... Read more
View audiobookA Northern Light
By: Jennifer Donnelly
Narrated by: Hope Davis
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
All of Mattie Lyon's hopes and dreams are riding on her summer job at the Glennmore Hotel. She'll make enough money to go to college in the fall. She'll prove to her father that she is responsible. She'll learn how to survive in the sophisticated world beyond her dad's brokeback farm. But all her plans fall to pieces when a young woman turns up... Read more
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