Teen Audiobooks

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• teen reads
• audiobooks
• romance
• various societies

Cinder 
Marissa Meyer
YA F MEYER Lunar #1
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.

Anna and the French Kiss 
Stephanie Perkins
YA F PERKINS
When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.

Wicked Lovely 
Melissa Marr
YA F MARR Wicked L #1
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.

Keturah and Lord Death 
Martine Leavitt
YA F LEAVITT
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.

Along for the Ride 
Sarah Dessen
YA F DESSEN
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 such as learning to ride a bike and dating.

Thrilling Audiobooks

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• action/thriller stories
• audiobooks
• read like Jasper Fforde, Brandon Sanderson, Dan Brown, Dean Koontz

The Angel's Game 
By Carlos Ruiz Zafon
BCD F RUIZ ZAFON
Offered a career-making writing deal from an enigmatic publisher in turbulent 1960s Barcelona, David Martin wonders about his capacity for writing a book for which the publisher claims others will live and die.

The Passage 
By Justin Cronin
BCD F CRONIN Passage #1
The latest test subject in a covert government experiment, abandoned six-year-old Amy is rescued by an FBI agent who hides them in the Oregon hills, from which Amy emerges a century later to save the human race from a terrifying virus.

Character-Driven Tales on Audio

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• audiobooks
• character-driven thrillers
• crime fiction
• fiction or non-fiction

My Story 
By Elizabeth Smart
BIO SMART
Ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart’s powerful memoir reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime.

Atonement 
By Ian McEwan
F MCEWAN
In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.

White Cat 
By Holly Black
YA F BLACK Curse #1
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.

A Child Called “It” 
By David Pelzer
BIO PELZER
Dave Pelzer’s story is that of a child brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. Dave had to learn how to play his mother’s abusive games in order to survive, as his mother no longer considered him a son but a slave, no longer a boy but an “it.”

I Am Not A Serial Killer 
By Dan Wells
YA F WELLS John Cle #1
Having grown up helping his mom at the family mortuary, dead bodies are no big deal to John. He likes them, actually—they don’t ask for the empathy he’s not able to offer. Perhaps that’s what gives him the clarity to recognize that something is frighteningly different about the freshest body on the slab.

Short Adventures and LDS Books

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• books like The Hunger Games and Twilight
• adventures
• books with LDS history or messages
• books on CD
• books under 250 pages

Tide Ever Rising 
By Mandi Tucker Slack
MYSTERY Slack
Kadie Reynold loves to explore old ghost towns. When she visits Eureka, Utah, she finds an ancient journal and a beautiful pendant hidden in the depths of a crumbling house. Now strange dreams and premonitions are haunting Kadie as she learns more about the keeper of the journal, Charlotte Clark.

Wanted 
By Kathi Oram Peterson
MYSTERY Peterson
Escaped convict Branson Faulkner and rodeo veterinarian Jo Power team up to find new evidence that will prove Branson's innocence of a murder committed seven years ago. They soon discover an alarming connection between a string of homicides, and one truth is clear: there's a murderer on the loose who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks. This title is also available as an audiobook.

Thirteen Reasons Why 
By Jay Asher
YA F Asher
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death. This title is also available as an audiobook.

Clean Historical Fiction

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• historical fiction
• clean
• adventurous
• available on CD

A Long Way from Chicago 
By Richard Peck
YA F PECK
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963 
By Christopher Paul Curtis
YA F CURTIS
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond 
By Elizabeth George Speare
YA F Speare
A young woman brought up in Barbados comes to live with her uncle in Connecticut, and finds their Puritan way of life difficult after her unconventional upbringing.





Books not available on Book on CD 

Boston Jane
By Jennifer L. Holm
YA F HOLM
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

The Shakespeare Stealer 
By Gary L. Blackwood
YA F BLACKWOO Shakespe #1
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.

Teen Adventures on CD

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• Teen books
• Adventures

Ella Enchanted
By Gail Carson Levine
BCD YA LEVIN
This is a charming re-telling of the classic Cinderella story. At birth, Ella is cursed by an imprudent fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the "gift" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. But her intelligence and good nature aid her as she sets out to find Lucinda to undo the curse.

Eragon
By Christopher Paolini
BCD YA PAOLINI
A 15 year old boy called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

Life As We Knew It
By Susan Beth Pfeffer
BCD YA PFEFFER
Through journal entries, 16-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

Incarceron
By Catherine Fisher
BCD YA FISHER
Incarceron is a prison unlike any other. Finn, a 17-year-old prisoner, can’t remember his childhood and believes he came from Outside Incarceron, even though most inmates don’t believe that Outside even exists. Then Finn finds a crystal key and through it, a girl named Claudia who claims to live Outside. Her father is the Warden of Incarceron, and she is Finn’s only hope of escape. But escape will be far more difficult than they realize, because Incarceron is alive.

Teen Fantasy Books on CD

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Teen books
• Fantasy
• Audiobooks
• Strong characterization

Incarceron
By Catherine Fisher
BCD YA FISHER
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

The Hunchback Assignments
By Arthur G. Slade
BCD YA SLADE
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.

Foundling
By D. M. Cornish
BCD YA CORNISH
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamund sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought.

Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman?
By Eleanor Updale
BCD YA UPDALE
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.(This one isn't fantasy, but it's great teen title with interesting characters.)

Clean Teen Adventures

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• Adventure
• Clean reads
• Teen titles
• Audiobooks
  

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
By James Patterson
BCD YA PATTERSO
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.

Inkheart
By Cornelia Funke
BCD YA FUNKE
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.

Mister Monday
By Garth Nix
BCD YA NIX
Although Arthur Penhaligon is supposed to die, he is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock, and now some bizarre creatures--including Mister Monday, his avenging messengers, and an army of dog-faced Fetchers--will stop at nothing to get the key.

The Kingdom Keepers
By Ridley Pearson
BCD YA PEARSON
Finn Whitman, an Orlando teen, is hired to be hologramed as a Disney World park "guide" but soon finds himself being transported into the Magic Kingdom in the dead of night to help fight a group of Disney villains, led by Maleficent, who want to take over Disney World--and maybe more.

Heir Apparent
By Vivian Vande Velde
BOT YA VANDE VELDE
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself.

Action-packed Historical Fiction on CD or Tape

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• Audiobooks
• Action
• Historical fiction

The Widow of the South
By Robert Hicks
BCD Hicks
A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man, and dedicating her home as a burial site for fallen soldiers.

Trophies and Dead Things
By Marcia Muller
BCD Muller
When a client of hers is murdered, detective Sharon McCone discovers that the dead man had disinherited his children and left his estate to four strangers, all with ties to a distant crime.

The March
By E. L. Doctorow
BCD Doctorow
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the final years of the Civil War has a profound impact on the outcome of the war.

The Painted Drum
By Louise Erdrich
BCD Erdrich
Discovering a cache of valuable Native American artifacts while appraising an estate in New Hampshire, Faye Travers investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it.

Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
BCD Dostoevs
Raskolnikov, a nihilistic young man in the midst of a spiritual crisis, makes the fateful decision to murder a cruel pawnbroker, justifying his actions by relying on science and reason, and creating his own morality system. The aftermath of his crime and Petrovich's murder investigation result in an utterly compelling, truly unforgettable cat-and-mouse game.

Teen Fantasy Audiobooks

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• Teen titles
• Fantasy
• Audiobooks
  

Sebastain Drake: Prince of Fools
By Philip Caveney
Books on CD-YA Caveney
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.

Foundling
By D. M. Cornish
Books on CD-YA Cornish
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamund sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters.

Revenge of the Witch
By Joseph Delaney
Books on CD-YA Delaney
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties.

Incarceron
By Catherine Fisher
Books on CD-YA Fisher
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

The Graveyard Book
By Neil Gaiman
Books on CD-YA Gaiman
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.

Skulduggery Pleasant
By Derek Landy
Books on CD-YA Landy
When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.

Princess Ben
By Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Books on CD-YA Murdock
Princess Benevolence, with a little help of her new found magic, protects her kindgom of Montagne as it faces war with their neighboring enemy Drachensbett.

The Hunchback Assignments
By Arthur G. Slade
Books on CD-YA Slade
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.

Biographies

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• Biographies
• Books on CD (each of these books is available as a Book on CD, with the same call number as the book version)
  

A Girl Named Zippy
By Haven Kimmel
BIO Kimmel
The author offers a chronicle of growing up in a small town in America's heartland, offering portraits of her family and her encounters with the complexities of the adult world, romance, and small-town life during the 1960s and 1970s.

Last Lecture
By Randy Pausch
BIO Pausch
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Team of Rivals
By Doris Goodwin
BIO Lincoln
An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in winning the Civil War.

Open: An Autobiography
By Andre Agassi
BIO Agassi
A candid memoir by the tennis champion covers his Grand Slam wins, establishment of a charitable foundation for underprivileged children, and marriage to Stefanie Graf.

Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
By Deborah Heiligman
BIO Darwin
Provides an account of Charles Darwin's life and evolutionary theory, examining how his personal life affected his work and vice versa because of his wife's strong religious beliefs.