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Award-Winning Teen Audiobooks
Fiction audiobooks selected as the best by YALSA and the Audio Publishers Association.
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  Cover Art: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Alexie, Sherman
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Read by Sherman Alexie. Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. [Odyssey Award Winner; ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults]
5 sound discs (5 hr.) 2008
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: The Adoration of Jenna Fox Pearson, Mary
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Read by Jenna Lamia. In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a 17 year old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence. [ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults]
6 sound discs 2008
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Airborn Oppel, Kenneth
Airborn
Read by David Kelly and cast. Matt only feels alive when he's working aboard the Aurora, an airship that is part dirigible, part cruise ship. When Kate coeme aboard, Matt joins in her search for the mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.[Audie Winner]
10 sound discs (10 hr., 30 min.) 2006
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Alchemy and Meggy Swann Cushman, Karen
Alchemy and Meggy Swann
Read by Katherine Kellgren. In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist. She discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths. [ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults; Odyssey Honor Audiobook]
4 sound discs (4 hr., 23 min.) 2010
Children's Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Along for the Ride Dessen, Sarah
Along for the Ride
Read by Rachel Botchan. When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences. [ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults. Also by this author: Lock and Key, ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults.]
11 sound discs (12 hr., 45 min.) 2009
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? Final Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Rennison, Louise
Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? Final Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
Read by Stina Nielson. British teenager Georgia Nicolson's humorous diary entries reveal the results as she finally chooses between potential boyfriends, but then becomes involved in a play with the one not chosen, further complicating her love life.[ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults]
2009
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Beat the Band Calame, Don.
Beat the Band
Read by Nick Podehl. It's the beginning of the school year. Coop is matched with 'Hot Dog' Helen for a presentation on safe sex. Everyone's laughing, except for Coop, who's convinced that the only way to escape this popularity death sentence is to win the Battle of the Bands. [ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults. Also by this author: Swim the Fly, ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults]
7 sound discs (8 hr., 14 min.) 2010
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Beauty Queens Bray, Libba
Beauty Queens
Read by Libba Bray. When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition. [ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults]
12 sound discs (14 hr., 30 min.) 2011
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors Plus Techniques for Taming Them Lockhart, E.
The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors Plus Techniques for Taming Them
Read by Kristen Potter. This sequel to The Boyfriend List finds Ruby Oliver starting her junior and continuing her quest for relevant data on the male species, while enjoying her freedom as a newly licensed driver. [ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults]
2010
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: The Burn Journals Runyon, Brent
The Burn Journals
Read by Christopher Welch. Fearing expulsion after lighting a shirt on fire at his school, Brent goes home, soaks his bathrobe with gasoline, steps into his shower, and strikes a match. Suffering horrific burns, Brent faces a long, painful recovery. [ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults]
1 sound file (8 hr.) 2008
Adult Nonfiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Carter's Big Break Crawford, Brent.
Carter's Big Break
Read by Nick Podehl. Will Carter's summer gets off to a bad start when his girlfriend leaves him, but then he is cast opposite a major star, Hilary Idaho, in a small movie being filmed in his town and things start looking up. [ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults]
6 sound discs (6 hr., 39 min.) 2011
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Chime Billingsley, Franny
Chime
Read by Susan Duerden. In the early 20th century in Swampsea, Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about. [ALA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults]
8 sound discs (10 hr., 13 min.) 2011
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: The Chosen One Williams, Carol Lynch
The Chosen One
Read by Jenna Lamia. In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the 7th wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings. She is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves. [ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults]
5 sound discs (5.5 hr.) 2009
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: A Clockwork Orange Burgess, Anthony
A Clockwork Orange
Read by Tom Hollander. With the tone of a nightmarish comedy, Burgess satirically envisions a warped future in which gangs of sadistic youths rule the streets after dark. Meet Alex, a 15-year-old boy who enjoys rape, ultraviolence, and Beethoven.[ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults]
6 sound discs (6 hr., 45 min.) 2008
Adult Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Fairest Levine, Gail Carson
Fairest
Read by a full cast. In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is. [ALA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults]
8 hr. 7 min. 2007
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Finnikin of the Rock Marchetta, Melina
Finnikin of the Rock
Read by Jeffrey Cummings. Finnikin, who was a child when the royal family of Lumatere was brutally murdered and replaced by an imposter, reluctantly joins forces with an enigmatic fellow-exile, who claims that her dark dreams will lead them to a way to regain the throne. [ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults]
11 sound discs (12 hr., 29 min.) 2010
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Flipped Van Draanen, Wendelin
Flipped
Read by Andy Paris and Carine Montbertrand. The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the 2nd grade. But in the 8th grade everything gets turned upside down. And just as he’s thinking there’s more to her than meets the eye, she’s thinking that he’s not all that. [ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults.]
6 sound discs (7 hr., 15 min.) 2004
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: The Golden Compass Pullman, Philip
The Golden Compass
Read by Philip Pullman and cast. Accompanied by her shape-shifting demon, Lyra sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome experiments in the Far North. [Audie Winner; ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults. Also by this author: Ruby in the Smoke, ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults.]
8 sound discs (10 hr., 33 min.) 1999
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Read by Jim Dale. Burdened with the seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldermort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him. [Odyssey Honor Audiobook]
17 sound discs (21 hr., 39 min.) 2007
Children's Fiction CD
Other formats available
  Cover Art: Heist Society Carter, Ally.
Heist Society
Read by Angela Dawe. Katarina seems destined for the family business, art theft. When Kat tries to go straight she's kicked out of her new school for stealing the headmaster's car and mounting it on the school fountain. She could have done it without breaking a sweat - but this time she's innocent. [ALA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults]
5 sound discs (6 hr., 10 min.) 2009
Teen Fiction CD
Other formats available
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