Whether you're listening as a family, on the go, or for quiet time, this terrific curated list for kids & teens gives you dozens of awesome choices. Browse by the age groups below to find audiobooks that explore other times & places, family & community themes, and fantastic worlds, as well as familiar classics—Audiobooks for Kids & Teens has something for everyone!
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BOOGIE BOOGIE, Y'ALLEarphones Award Winner
by C.G. Esperanza | Read by C.G. EsperanzaHarper AudioChildren Ages 4-6Music and the hip-hop beat of the text come together to create an auditory treat for all ages. This combination joyful ode to graffiti and celebration of art is pure delight. Author Esperanza's pacing of his narration feels like spoken-word poetry.... Read More |
BOOGIE BOOGIE, Y'ALL |
A IS FOR OBOE: THE ORCHESTRA'S ALPHABETEarphones Award Winner
by Lera Auerbach, Marilyn Nelson | Read by Thomas QuasthoffListening LibraryChildren Ages 6+Narrator Thomas Quasthoff's voice has a musicality perfectly suited to this rich alphabet book with its own symphonic score. This is a poetic tribute to the orchestra—from the titular oboe, offering its musical “A” at each symphony’s beginning, to musical notation, the conductor, the instruments, and the audience.... Read More |
A IS FOR OBOE: THE ORCHESTRA'S ALPHABET |
STAMPED (FOR KIDS)Earphones Award Winner
by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Sonja Cherry-Paul [Adapt.] | Read by Pe'Tehn Raighn-Kem JacksonHachette AudioChildren Ages 6+How better to communicate this vital history of racism in America to its young audience than to have the audiobook narrated by a peer? Nine-year-old Pe’Tehn Raighn-Kem Jackson hits it out of the park with her lively and engaging reading.... Read More |
STAMPED (FOR KIDS) |
PLAYING THE CARDS YOU'RE DEALTEarphones Award Winner
by Varian Johnson | Read by Dion GrahamScholastic AudiobooksChildren Ages 8+Dion Graham makes every audiobook he narrates into a special event, and his charisma just overflows in this one about Ant, a 10-year-old boy from South Carolina. Ant is obsessed with winning his community’s annual spades tournament—and living up to the expectations of his gambling, alcoholic father.... Read More |
PLAYING THE CARDS YOU'RE DEALT |
TOO BRIGHT TO SEEEarphones Award Winner
by Kyle Lukoff | Read by Jax Jackson, Kyle Lukoff [Note]Listening LibraryChildren Ages 10+Narrator Jax Jackson quickly convinces listeners of Bug’s determination to acquire a sense of self before middle school. There are several reasons for this: his beloved Uncle Roddy’s death, a ghostly presence that haunts his dreams, and viewpoints he holds that don’t jibe with friends’ interests.... Read More |
TOO BRIGHT TO SEE |
PERFECTLY PARVINEarphones Award Winner
by Olivia Abtahi | Read by Mitra JouhariListening LibraryChildren Ages 12+Narrator Mitra Jouhari delivers an authentic coming-of-age story. Parvin is on a mission to get a date for homecoming after a summer fling dumps her because “she’s too loud.”Watching romance movies with her friends, Ruth and Fabian, Parvin theorizes that quiet women always get the man.... Read More |
PERFECTLY PARVIN |
ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DIVE INTO THE WATERS OF THE WORLDEarphones Award Winner
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Read by Lin-Manuel MirandaSimon & Schuster AudioYoung Adult Ages 14+Lin-Manuel Miranda captures every intense emotion in this gorgeously lyrical and intensely hopeful sequel to ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE. Ari Mendoza and Dante Quintana, two gay Mexican American teens in El Paso, spend a magical summer together before their last year of high school.... Read More |
ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DIVE INTO THE WATERS OF THE WORLD |
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