Family Audiobooks
These materials can be found in the Children's (J) Audiovisual Area and the Junior High (Y) Audiovisual Area. They are shelved by the author's last name. These books are intended to appeal to multiple age groups and are good for road trips. Click here for a print-friendly version of this list.
Children’s Fiction (J)
| Author | Title | Call Number |
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| Angleberger | The Strange Case of Origami Yoda Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends have fun with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight. | Book On CD, Playaway |
| Atwater | Mr. Popper's Penguins The unexpected delivery of a crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the polar regions. | Book On CD |
| Birdsall | The Penderwicks While on vacation, four sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy. | Book On CD |
| Birney | The World According to Humphrey Humphrey, a pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher. | Book On CD, Playaway |
| Blume | Freckle Juice Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents. | Book On CD |
| Cleary | Henry Huggins When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular breed, humorous adventures follow. | Book On CD, Playaway |
| Clements | Frindle Fifth grader Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. | Book On CD, Playaway |
| Cowell | How to Train Your Dragon Chronicles the adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, who must catch and train a dragon to be initiated into his Viking clan. | Book On CD |
| Curtis | Bud, Not Buddy Bud, escapes a foster home in search his father, a renowned bandleader, during the 1930's. | Book On CD |
| Dahl | The BFG Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), Sophie and the BFG plan to save the world from nine man-gobbling giants. | Book On CD |
| DiCamillo | The Tale of Despereaux The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, a princess, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat. | Book On CD, Playaway |
| Grahame | The Wind in the Willows The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger. | Book On CD, Playaway |
| Hale | The Princess in Black Princess Magnolia may seem prim and proper, but she has a secret alter ego that is a monster-fighting superhero. | Book On CD |
| Jenkins | Toys Go Out Six stories relate the adventures of three toys who are best friends. | Book On CD |
| Konigsburg | From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Having run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Claudia and her younger brother, Jamie, have great adventures there. | Book On CD, Playaway |
| Lewis | The Magician's Nephew When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia. | Book On CD |
| Milne | The Collected Stories of Winnie-the-Pooh. The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, Pooh Bear, Tigger, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Piglet, and Eeyore. | Book On CD |
| Peck | A Long Way from Chicago A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. | Book On CD |
| Rowling | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone A young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches. | Book On CD |
Junior High Fiction (Y)
| Author | Title | Call Number |
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| Gaiman | The Graveyard Book Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. | Book On CD, Playaway |
| Pullman | The Golden Compass Accompanied by her personal daemon, Lyra Belacqua rescues kidnapped children from gruesome experiments. | Book On CD, Playaway |
| Riordan | The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the Underworld and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods. | Book On CD, Playaway |
| Selznick | The Invention of Hugo Cabret Twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan repairing clocks within a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter. | Book On CD, Playaway |
| Snicket | The Bad Beginning Without parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits because their guardian is determined to get their fortune. | Book On CD |
| Tolkien | The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who lives in a hobbit hole, is chosen by wizard Gandalf to take part in an adventure from which he may never return. | Book on CD, Playaway |
Last Updated: 11/17
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