YA Nonfiction audiobooks

This is Really Happening

By: Erin Chack

Narrated by: Erin Chack

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A Seventeen Magazine Best Book of the Year!

BuzzFeed senior writer Erin Chack hits you in the guts, the feels, and the funny bone all at once with this collection of personal essays that reads like Sloane Crosley for the Snapchat generation.
 
In turns hysterically funny and heartbreakingly poignant, Erin recounts everything from meeting her... Read more

Vincent and Theo

By: Deborah Heiligman

Narrated by: Phil Fox

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh defined both brothers' lives. As a confidant, champion, sympathizer, and friend, Theo financially and emotionally supported his older brother as the artistic but troubled Vincent struggled to find his path in life as both a painter and a man. Throughout that struggle, the... Read more

World's Greatest Teacher

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Brad Meltzer

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the teacher who changed Brad's life. Originally published in Parade Magazine. Read more

How to Be a Hepburn in a Kardashian World

By: Jordan Christy

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Jordan Christy shares advice on how to be the most confident version of yourself, in this fully revised and updated edition derived from How to Be a Hepburn in a Hilton World.Though fashions may change, certain things never go out of style -- like your favorite little black dress that can take you from a business meeting to a dinner party to a... Read more

Matthew Espinosa: More Than Me

By: Matthew Espinosa

Narrated by: Matthew Espinosa

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

You may think you know everything about multiplatform entertainer Matthew Espinosa—but he’s here to tell you so much more in his debut book.You know Matthew is burning up the internet with more than 18 million fans across YouTube, Vine, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. You know about his starring role in the hit movie Be Somebody. And you know... Read more

How to Be Happy: a memoir of love, sex and teenage confusion

By: David Burton

Narrated by: David Burton

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner, The Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing, 2014A funny, sad and serious memoir, How to Be Happy is David Burton’s story of his turbulent life at high school and beyond. Feeling out of place and convinced that he is not normal, David has a rocky start. He longs to have a girlfriend, but his first ‘date’ is a disaster. There’s... Read more

Almost Adulting

By: Arden Rose

Narrated by: Arden Rose

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Grace Helbig and Alexa Chung comes a fresh, hilarious guide to growing up your way from social media influencer and lifestyle vlogger Arden Rose.In Almost Adulting—perfect for budding adults, failing adults, and eaters of microwave mug brownies—Arden tells you how to survive your future adulthood. Topics include: Making internet... Read more

How To Get Over A Breakup For Women

By: HowExpert

Narrated by: Krystle L. Minkoff

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have just undergone a break up, then get this "How to Get Over a Breakup For Women" step-by-step guide.It is written by a person who has also gone through the break up and lose loved ones.In this step-by-step guide, you will discover how to overcome and endure the pain cause by the break up.- How to reflect and accept difficult... Read more

The Maddie Diaries

By: Maddie Ziegler

Narrated by: Maddie Ziegler

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestselling memoir, the incredibly talented breakout star of Dance Moms and judge on So You Think You Can Dance brings her uplifting coming-of-age story about following her dreams and working hard to achieve success in both the dance world and in life.

Maddie Ziegler knew one day she’d be a star—she just didn’t know how... Read more

Three More Words

By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Narrated by: Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent a harrowing nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes. Her memoir, Three Little Words, captivated audiences everywhere and went on to become a New York Times bestseller. Now Ashley reveals the nuances of life after foster care: college and its assorted hijinks, including meeting “the one.” Marriage,... Read more

Unfiltered

By: Lily Collins

Narrated by: Lily Collins

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

International bestseller!In her groundbreaking debut essay collection, actress Lily Collins—Golden Globe-nominated star of Rules Don’t Apply, Mortal Instruments, and To the Bone—is opening a poignant, honest conversation about the things young women struggle with: body image, self-confidence, relationships, family, dating, and so much more.Lily... Read more

Girl Code

By: Andrea Gonzales & Sophie Houser

Narrated by: Andrea Gonzales & Sophie Houser

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Public Library Best Book of 2017Perfect for aspiring coders everywhere, Girl Code is the story of two teenage tech phenoms who met at Girls Who Code summer camp, teamed up to create a viral video game, and ended up becoming world famous. The book also includes bonus content to help you start coding!Fans of funny and inspiring books... Read more

Beastly Brains

By: Nancy F. Castaldo

Narrated by: Charon Normand-Widmer

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In Beastly Brains, Nancy Castaldo delves into the minds of animals and explores animal empathy, communication, tool use, and social societies through interviews and historical anecdotes. Researchers from Charles Darwin to Jane Goodall have spent years analyzing the minds of animals, and today's science is revolutionizing old theories and... Read more

Because They Marched

By: Russell Freedman

Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early 1960s, tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a voting rights march in January, 1965, and was attacked by a segregationist. In February, the shooting of an unarmed demonstrator by an Alabama state... Read more

Ten Days in a Mad-House

By: Nellie Bly

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1887, Nellie Bly had herself committed to the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in New York City with the goal of discovering what life was like for its patients. While there, Bly experienced firsthand the shocking abuse and neglect of its inmates, from inedible food to horrifyingly unsanitary conditions. Ten Days in a Mad-House is... Read more

How To Crochet Recycled Materials

By: HowExpert & Sarah Olson

Narrated by: Kelly McGee

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to crochet recycled items, then get "How To Crochet Recycled Materials" guide. Are you the sort of person who hates throwing anything away that might still have a use? Do you enjoy bargain hunting and crocheting? Then this guide is definitely for you!With the help of straight forward, easy to follow instructions and step-by-step... Read more

How To Coach Youth Football

By: HowExpert & John Seagroves

Narrated by: Adam Meggs

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

We hear the reports and see the video all too often: youth coaches and officials assaulted, fights breaking out at youth sporting events, and parents and coaches losing control over what should be a child’s game. It doesn’t have to be that way. What we don’t see are the thousands of youth football coaches who do it the right way: teaching the... Read more

How To Draw With Charcoal

By: HowExpert & Adrian Sanqui

Narrated by: Matyas J.

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to learn how to draw with charcoal, then get the How to Draw With Charcoal Guide.How to Draw with Charcoal is a step-by-step manual on how to use charcoal as an art medium. This book covers several ways to use charcoal in different art genres. It will show you how to produce artwork of different styles, including portrait and... Read more

Painting in the Dark

By: Rachelle Burk

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot & Katherine Kellgren

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1953, Esref Armagan was born completely blind to a poor family in Istanbul, Turkey. He received no formal education and spent his childhood days in his father’s shop, where he developed the curiosity to create and draw. He experienced the world through touch and learned to visually reproduce his surroundings, including color, shadows, and... Read more

Sachiko

By: Caren B. Stelson

Narrated by: John Chancer & Katherine Fenton

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

2017 Parents’ Choice Award Winner! This striking work of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath. Having conducted extensive interviews with Sachiko Yasui, Caren Stelson shares the true story of a young girl who... Read more

Un monstruo viene a verme

By: Patrick Ness

Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Merecedora de numerosos premios y distinciones, Un monstruo viene a verme es la novela más aclamada de Patrick Ness. Escucha esta historia emocionante y extraordinaria sobre un niño, su madre enferma y el monstruo que viene a visitarle. Siete minutos después de la medianoche, Conor despierta y se encuentra un monstruo en la ventana. Pero no es... Read more

Liked

By: Kari Kampakis

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For many girls it starts early. The desire to be perfect. The need for approval. The longing for acceptance and being liked by a lot of people.



Thanks to social media, these desires now get channeled online. Girls can curate an image, build a following, and test-drive identities until they find one that draws attention and applause. But in this... Read more

Courage to Soar

By: Simone Biles

Narrated by: Imani Parks

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In Courage to Soar, the official autobiography from four-time Olympic gold-winning and record-setting American gymnast Simone Biles, Simone shares how her faith, family, passion, and perseverance has made her one of the top athletes and gymnasts in the world—and how you too can overcome challenges in your life.Simone Biles’ entrance into the... Read more

25 Conversation Starters

By: Dre Baldwin

Narrated by: Dre Baldwin

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Conversation is simple and easy. We share things with others, and others share things with us. It doesn't always work out this simply, of course, but this is who we are at our cores. Humans are social creatures; we share. Verbal communication played a significant role in all your biggest life achievements. The sexiest guy or girl you've dated.... Read more