YA Audiobooks

Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, The Gallows, and the Black General Gabriel
- Gigi Amateau
Imagines the childhood and youth of "Prosser's Gabriel," a courageous and intelligent blacksmith in post-Revolutionary Richmond, Virginia, who roused thousands of African-Americans slaves like himself to rebel.

The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Winner of the 2013 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production.

Son - Lois Lowry
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

Billy Budd, Sailor: A Classic Tale of Innocence Betrayed on the High Seas - adapted from the novel by Herman Melville
Good-natured Billy Budd is forced into service on a British man of war on its way to fight the French. One of Billy's shipmates is appalled at Billy's innocence and the stage is set for a conspiracy, murder and a question of justice.

Divergent - Veronica Roth
Beatrice Pryor lives in a dystopian Chicago, which is divided into five factions devoted to different virtues. On a set day every year, sixteen-year-olds must select which faction they will devote the rest of their lives to. Beatrice must choose between staying with her family and being who she really is. Beatrice also has a secret, one she has been warned can mean death if exposed. Now, Beatrice will be forced to make tough choices that can determine the course of her future.

Insurgent - Veronica Roth
Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick - Joe Schreiber
Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan.

Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

Crusher - Daniel Weyman
Finn Maguire becomes the prime suspect after he finds his own father bludgeoned to death and, as he scrambles to prove his innocence, Finn uncovers dark families secrets hidden in London's brutal underworld.