The Mabel's Fables BE A GOOD LISTENER Booklist for Ages 10 to 13

Guys Read: The Sports Pages

By: Jon Scieszka, Gordon Korman, Chris Rylander, Dan Gutman, Mike Lupica, Anne Ursu, Tim Green, Joseph Bruchac & Jacqueline Woodson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean, Christian Rummel, Mike Rylander & JD Jackson
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

The Sports Pages, the third volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library of Great Reading, features ten short stories guaranteed to put you in the ring, under the basket, and right behind home plate.From fiction to nonfiction, from baseball to mixed martial arts and everything in between, these are a collection of stories about the rush of victory... Read more

Masterminds

By: Gordon Korman
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo, Kelly Jean Badgley, Tarah Consoli, Mike Rylander & Maxwell Glick
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

The first book in the action-packed series from New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman is perfect for young fans of James Patterson and John Grisham. Eli Frieden lives in the most perfect town in the world: Serenity, New Mexico. Honesty and integrity are valued above all else. The thirty kids who live there never lie—they know it’s a... Read more

The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid

By: Colin Meloy
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

From the creator of the New York Times bestselling Wildwood Chronicles comes an original, humorous, and fast-paced middle grade novel about a band of child pickpockets—imagine The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets Oliver Twist.It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie Fisher witnesses something incredible. Right before... Read more

The Underland Chronicles Book One: Gregor the Overlander

Underland Chronicles: Book #1

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Rich in suspense and brimming with adventure, the New York Times-bestselling Underland Chronicles unfold the fate of the Underland and the great warrior, Gregor. Suzanne Collins is also the author of the bestselling Hunger Games trilogy.

When eleven-year-old Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of their New York... Read more

The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 1

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book #1

By: Rick Riordan
Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein
Length: 10 hours 1 minute

“One of my absolute favorite series. Percy Jackson, a kid with ADHD and dyslexia, finds out he's the son of a Greek god. Embarking on an epic and hilarious quest to the Underworld to save his mother, he discovers his neurodivergence is what makes him strong. Read more

The Trials of Apollo, Book One: The Hidden Oracle

The Trials of Apollo: Book #1

By: Rick Riordan
Narrated by: Robbie Daymond
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

How do you punish an immortal?

By making him human.

After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain... Read more

Inkling

By: Kenneth Oppel
Narrated by: Robbie Daymond
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

From the acclaimed author of The Nest, The Boundless, and Airborn comes a brilliantly funny, breakout book about a boy who discovers an ink blot that's come to life! Perfect for those who love Hoot and Frindle and sure to be a hit with kids everywhere!

The Rylance family is stuck. Dad's got writer's block. Ethan promised to illustrate a group... Read more

The False Prince (The Ascendance Series, Book 1)

The Ascendance Series

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
Narrated by: Charlie McWade
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

“The False Prince is one of the best audiobooks I’ve listened to! Jennifer brings us on a ride of adventure, struggle, and twists and turns. It captivates the audience immediately, and you can’t help but to go back again and again! If you want something entertaining and completely entrancing, I highly recommend The False Prince. Read more

The War That Saved My Life

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Winner of the 2016 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production

An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson’s Sons and for fans of Number the Stars.
 
Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to... Read more

Beautiful Blue World

By: Suzanne LaFleur
Narrated by: Christy Carlson Romano
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Beautiful Blue World is a thrilling and moving story of children who become the key to winning a war.
 
Sofarende is at war. For twelve-year-old Mathilde, it means food shortages, feuding neighbors, and bombings. Even so, as long as she and her best friend, Megs, are together, they’ll be all right.
 
But the army is recruiting children, and paying... Read more

The Inquisitor's Tale

Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

By: Adam Gidwitz
Narrated by: Adam Gidwitz, Vikas Adam, Mark Bramhall, Jonathan Cowley, Kimberly Farr, Ann Marie Lee, Bruce Mann, John H. Mayer & Arthur Morey
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

The bestselling author of A Tale Dark and Grimm takes on medieval times in an exciting and hilarious new adventure about history, religion . . . and farting dragons.
 
1242. On a dark night, travelers from across France cross paths at an inn and begin to tell stories of three children: William, an oblate on a mission from his monastery; Jacob, a... Read more

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

By: L. M. Montgomery
Narrated by: Kate Burton
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Listen to the timeless classic about the beloved Anne Shirley, a red-haired orphan with a fiery spirit, before the new NETFLIX series premieres. This audiobook includes a foreword by Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale, celebrating the 100th anniversary of this children’s favorite! 
 
Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley has never known a... Read more

When You Reach Me

By: Rebecca Stead
Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

“My favorite book for young readers, and one of my favorite books, period. It's full of true, familiar details, and smart science fiction elements that make the impossible feel like common sense. The perfect blend of pathos and mind-blowing imagination. Read more

From the Mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

By: E.L. Konigsburg
Narrated by: Jill Clayburgh
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

“This book enchanted me as a child and continues to as an adult. Who doesn’t want to concoct a plan to run away from responsibility, take up residence in one of the world’s greatest museums and solve an art mystery? Read more

The Journey of Little Charlie

By: Christopher Paul Curtis
Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Christopher Paul Curtis
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis brings his trademark humor and heart to the story of a boy struggling to do right in the face of history's cruelest evils.

Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His dad just died, the share crops are dry, and Cap'n Buck--the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South Carolina--has come to collect a... Read more

Sabriel

The Old Kingdom: Book #1

By: Garth Nix
Narrated by: Tim Curry
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

“Few audiobook narrations have stuck with me as much as Tim Curry's rendition of Sabriel. Curry's performance is the light on Nix's characters that allows them to cast shadow on the wall behind them, illuminating the depth that was always there and bringing them to vivid and believable life. There are few more perfect pairings in audiobook... Read more

Artemis Fowl Movie Tie-In Edition

Artemis Fowl: Book #1

By: Eoin Colfer
Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Now an original movie on Disney+, here is the book that started it all, the international bestseller about a teenage criminal mastermind and his siege against dangerous, tech-savvy fairies.

New York Times bestselling author, Eoin Colfer and series, Artemis Fowl!

Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has discovered a world below ground... Read more

Inkheart

Inkheart: Book #1

By: Cornelia Funke
Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

“Have you ever wanted to live in the fantasy world of your book? Well, that's what happens to our main character and professional bookworm, Meggie! Yes, this is a book about books that will please any bookworm. Inkheart is extremely vivid and action-packed, which will have you wanting to live in these books forever. I have a special place in my... Read more

Number the Stars

By: Lois Lowry
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon... Read more

The Glass Sentence

The Mapmakers Trilogy: Book #1

By: S. E. Grove
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

A New York Times Bestseller
An Indiebound Bestseller
A Kids' Next Top Ten Book
A Summer/Fall 2014 Indies Introduce New Voices Selection A Junior Library Guild Selection
One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Summer Reads

“Not since Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass have I seen such an original and compelling world built inside a book.”—Megan Whalen... Read more