YA Nonfiction audiobooks

55 Daily People Skills

By: Dre Baldwin

Narrated by: Dre Baldwin

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It's happened to me, too. A lack of connections has cost me opportunities. Knowing the right people - who knew and liked me - has helped me many times as well. It seems random, but what if we could get some control over these occurrences? What if you could develop and strategically use skills for connecting with people? What if you could then... Read more

Uprooted

By: Albert Marrin

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Editor's Choice

On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor comes a harrowing and enlightening look at the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II— from National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin
 
Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that... Read more

UnSlut

By: Emily Lindin

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle & Erin Yuen

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When Emily Lindin was eleven years old, she was branded a slut by the rest of her classmates. For the next few years of her life, she was bullied incessantly at school, after school, and online. At the time, Emily didn't feel comfortable confiding in her parents or in the other adults her my life. But she did keep a diary. UnSlut is adapted from... Read more

The Duel

By: Judith St. George

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned at an early age. Both were brilliant students who attended college--one at Princeton, the other at Columbia--and studied law. Both were young staff officers under General George Washington, and both became war heroes. Politics beckoned them, and each served in the... Read more

Gunpowder Girls

By: Tanya Anderson

Narrated by: Carrie Olsen

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Civil War, the government hired women and girls—some as young as nine—to make millions of rounds of ammunition. They worked 72-hour weeks with little training. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the price for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of these workers were killed, blown up and burned beyond recognition. Gunpowder Girls... Read more

How To Start a Trucking Company

By: HowExpert

Narrated by: Marilyn Coleman

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to learn the basics of having a trucking company business, then get "How To Start a Trucking Company" which is written by a person with real life experience starting a trucking company business.How To Start a Trucking Company is a guide designed to help anyone who is interested in starting a trucking business. In this guide you will... Read more

Samurai Rising

By: Pamela S. Turner

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family-and lost. His father was killed, his mother... Read more

Don't Sit On the Baby!

By: Halley Bondy

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Babysitting is one of the most popular part-time jobs for teens, but caring for kids is no easy feat. Offering a ton of useful tips, this funny, modern no-nonsense guide covers all the basics any babysitting hopeful needs to know, and much more including what to expect from kids age 0-10, tips for finding and keeping the perfect babysitting gig,... Read more

Votes of Confidence

By: Jeff Fleischer

Narrated by: Nick Mondelli

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

With 2016 promising to be an interesting and hotly contested election year, Votes of Confidence offers young readers an essential guide to the past, present, and future of American elections. Read more

Eureka!

By: John Grant

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Galileo, Einstein, Curie, Darwin, Hawking - we know the names, but how much do we really know about these people? Galileo gained notoriety over his battle with the Vatican, but did you know that this father of modern science was also an accomplished lute player? And Darwin of course discovered the principle by which new species are formed, but... Read more

Girls Against Girls

By: Bonnie Burton

Narrated by: Christina Morales Hemenway

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Girls Against Girls is a complete guide including information on how females can band together and quit breaking each other down. Containing popular movie quotes, advice from female artists and athletes, and a resource section of girl-power organizations. Read more

Tomboy

By: Liz Prince

Narrated by: Ensemble Cast

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up, Liz Prince wasn't a girly girl, dressing in pink tutus or playing Pretty Pretty Princess like the other girls in her neighborhood. But she wasn't exactly one of the guys either, as she quickly learned when her Little League baseball coach exiled her to the outfield instead of letting her take the pitcher's mound. Liz was somewhere in... Read more

10 Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know

By: Kari Kampakis

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When Kari Kampakis wrote a blog post titled "10 Truths Young Girls Should Know," the post went viral and was shared 74,000 times on Facebook and pinned 20,000 times on Pinterest. Obviously her message strikes a chord. This nonfiction book for teen and tween girls expands on these ten truths and can reach the hearts of both mothers and... Read more

Kian and Jc: Don't Try This at Home!

By: Kian Lawley & Jc Caylen

Narrated by: Kian Lawley & Jc Caylen

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From personalities and entertainers Kian Lawley and Jc Caylen comes a completely wild and entirely true account of their rise to internet fame: Kian and Jc: Don’t Try This at Home! More than 7 million YouTube subscribers, 5 million Twitter followers, and 5 million Instagram followers cannot wait for this sometimes hilarious, sometimes awkward,... Read more

Being Jazz

By: Jazz Jennings

Narrated by: Jazz Jennings

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Teen advocate and trailblazer Jazz Jennings—named one of “The 25 Most Influential Teens” of the year by Time—shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths.
 
“[Jazz’s] touching book serves as a rallying cry for understanding and acceptance.”—Bustle
 
... Read more

The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi

By: Neal Bascomb

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling spy mission, a moving Holocaust story, and a first-class work of narrative nonfiction.The story of Eichmann's capture is now a major motion picture starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, Operation Finale!In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the... Read more

Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler's Atomic Bomb (Scholastic Focus)

By: Neal Bascomb

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning adventure involving Nazis, nukes, fighting, failure, and everyday heroes, from the author of the award-winning The Nazi Hunters.Neal Bascomb delivers another nail-biting work of nonfiction for young adults in this incredible true story of spies and survival.The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping into harbor,... Read more

#Loneliness

By: Tony Jeton Selimi

Narrated by: Tony Jeton Selimi & Rachel Alena

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Being subjected to abuse, bullying, critical illness, the atrocities of the civil war, and living homeless in a new country with no one to turn for help can certainly dredge up feelings of isolation, loneliness, rejection, and low self-worth as you leave everything you know behind. Meticulously researched and written by Tony Jeton Selimi,... Read more

Young and Beardless

By: John Luke Robertson

Narrated by: Will Lasley & Caleb Cooper

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

John Luke Robertson may be young and beardless, but he has a lot to say about growing up and discovering your purpose.John Luke Robertson, the oldest son of Willie and Korie Robertson and brother of Dancing with the Stars sensation Sadie Robertson, shares his story of what it’s like to grow up as a Robertson and all the fun and craziness that... Read more

How to Like Yourself

By: Cheryl M. Bradshaw

Narrated by: Devon Sorvari

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t let your inner critic get in the way of being confident! How to Like Yourselfoffers a quirky, inspiring, and practical guide to help you overcome feelings of self-criticism, improve self-esteem, and be the true star in your life. With all the pressures of school, friends, and dating, you’re especially vulnerable to low self-esteem in your... Read more

Learn Italian with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

By: Paul Noble

Narrated by: Paul Noble

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been... Read more

Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

By: Paul Noble

Narrated by: Paul Noble

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. This course covers European and Latin American Spanish. Take a... Read more

Learn German with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

By: Paul Noble

Narrated by: Paul Noble

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been... Read more

Off The Map

By: Meriwether Lewis

Narrated by: Pat Grimes

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lewis and Clark's famous 1804 expedition was told with great detail by the explorers themselves in an eight-volume account. Now young historians have the opportunity to learn the thrills, challenges, and adventures in a version accessible for them. Two years' worth of entries are condensed into a flowing account that maintains the historical... Read more