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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. [2009 ALA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults and Odyssey Award Winner]
5 sound discs (5 hr.) 2008
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Almond, David
Kit's Wilderness
Read by Charles Keating. Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past. [An ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults. Also listen to Heaven Eyes by this author, an ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults.]
4 sound discs (5 hr., 5 min.) 2000
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Anderson, Laurie Halse
Speak
Read by Mandy Siegfried. A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school. [An ALA Notable Recording. Also listen to Prom and Catalyst by this author, also ALA Notable Recordings.]
5 sound discs (5 hr., 2 min.) 2000
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Anderson, M. T.
Feed
Read by David Aaron Baker. In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. [An ALA Notable Recording.]
5 sound discs (5 hr., 1 min.) 2003
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Bloor, Edward
Tangerine
Read by Ramen de Ocampo. Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. [An ALA Notable Recording.]
9 sound discs (10 hr.) 2001
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Bodeen, S. A.
The Compound
Read by Christopher Lane. Eli and his family have lived in the Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone. Eli's father built the Compound to keep them safe. Now, they can't get out. He won't let them. [2009 ALA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults]
5 hr. 41 min. 2008
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Brashares, Ann
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Read by Angela Goethals. During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences. [An ALA Notable Recording.]
6 sound discs (6 hr., 35 min.) 2001
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Burg, Shana
A Thousand Never Evers
Read by Kenya Brome. As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963--and violence against African Americans intensifies--the black residents, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, in the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice. [2009 ALA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults]
7 sound discs (8 hr., 8 min.) 2008
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Cabot, Meg
All-American Girl
Read by Ariadne Meyers. A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son. [An ALA Notable Recording. Also listen to the Princess Diaries series by this author, some of which are ALA Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults.]
6 sound discs (7 hr., 10 min.) 2002
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Caveney, Philip
Sebastian Darke : Prince of Fools
Read by Maxwell Caulfield. Accompanied by his sardonic buffalope Max, seventeen-year-old Sebastian Darke meets a spoiled princess and a diminutive soldier who aid in his quest to become court jester to the evil King Septimus. [2009 ALA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults]
7 sound discs (8 hr., 25 min.) 2008
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Cooper, Susan
The Dark is Rising
Read by Alex Jennings. On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of Dark. [An ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults. Also listen to the other Dark is Rising Sequence books by this author, some of which are ALA Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults.]
8 sound discs (8 hr., 43 min.) 2000
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Crutcher, Chris
Whale Talk
Read by Brian Corrigan. Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students. [An ALA Notable Recording.]
6 sound discs (6 hr., 32 min.) 2003
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Curtis, Christopher Paul
Elijah of Buxton
Read by Mirron Willis. In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom. [2009 ALA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults and Odyssey Award Honor Book; also try Bucking the Sarge by this author, an ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults]
8 sound discs (ca. 68 min. each) 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
 Audio books - Award Winners
Audio books - history on the go (6 hours plus)
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Dallas, Sandra
Tallgrass
Read by Lorelei King. During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. [2009 ALA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults]
7 sound discs (8.5 hr.) 2007
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Delaney, Joseph
Night of the Soul Stealer
Read by Christopher Evan Welch. Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil. [2009 ALA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults]
6 sound discs (7 hr., 30 min.) 2007
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Dessen, Sarah
Lock and Key
Read by Rebecca Soler. When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others. [2009 ALA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults]
10 sound discs (ca. 11 hr.) 2008
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Donnelly, Jennifer
A Northern Light
Read by Hope Davis. In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story. [An ALA Notable Recording.]
8 sound discs (9 hr., 2 min.) 2003
Appears on the following book lists:
Audio books - history on the go (6 hours plus)
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Fleischman, Paul
Seek
Read by a full cast. Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-gone father, a radio announcer. [An ALA Notable Recording.]
2 sound cassettes (2.75 hr.) 2002
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Flinn, Alex
Breathing Underwater
Read by Jon Cryer. Sixteen year-old Nick is sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin. Ordered to keep a journal, he examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with an abusive father. [An ALA Notable Recording.]
3 sound cassettes (5 hr., 8 min.) 2002
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Gaiman, Neil
The Graveyard Book
Read by Neil Gaiman. Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. [2009 ALA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults]
7 sound discs (7.75 hrs.) 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Audio books - Best Fiction
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