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For Teens, By Teens: Audiobooks

Have you tried audiobooks? Listen to your favorite stories (or assigned reading) read to you by world-class voice actors! Whether you download your e-audiobook onto your device or go old-school and listen to books on CD, audiobooks are an awesome way to experience books!

Check out some "By Teens, For Teens" audiobook reviews below!

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell; Read by Euan Morton

ISBN: 9781427262028

GPL Teen Book Reviewer: Marya Kim

My favorite book (series) is Harry Potter, and this book gave it a run for its money in the magical department. What made this book stand out so much to me was the romance. I don't read romance very often, so I don't have much to compare it to, but I thoroughly enjoyed the romantic scenes and lovers quarreling next to the wizarding. Magical worlds are so different from our science, non-magical culture, so imagery is especially important in such magical writings, and Rowell definitely does not disappoint. If you like romance and/or magic, then I recommend you read this. I also realized after reading this book that it is actually a spin off addition to her other book FanGirl. I was not aware of this when reading Carry On, so this book is definitely a good read whether or not you've read FanGirl (but the experience might be heightened if you did).

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare; Read By Ari Graynor

ISBN: 9780743566575

GPL Teen Book Reviewer: Haelyanna Paulose

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy? This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.

 

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

ISBN: 9780765378484

GPL Teen Book Reviewer: Marya Kim

Orson Scott Card is a cruel parent, at least to his fictional children, and I absolutely love it. Ender, an extremely young child, grows up in a dystopian future where the Chinese One-Child Policy is now the World Two-Child Policy and everyone is afraid of being zapped by alien bugs, and everyone important expects him to either be unwanted trash or the savior of humanity. Card captures the insight of a prodigal child very well (to my knowledge; I'm not a prodigal child, at least) and really paints Ender as a feeling, alive, human child rather than a fictional hero. Following Ender's childhood life made me cry for both himself, for being so manipulated and burned, and for myself, because I will probably never be as strong or as smart as this child in my entire lifetime, much to my satisfaction. This is a MUST READ for any sci-fi readers!

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King; Read by: Justin Long, Oliver Platt, Judith Ivey, Jay O. Sanders

ISBN: 9780743525893

GPL Teen Book Reviewer: Miriam Kim

This is a collection of 14 short stories going in all different directions from horrifying to thought-provoking to depressing. In 'The Man in the Black Suit', an old man reminisces about the time he met the devil when he was 9 years old, and the lies he told him.This book takes you many different directions, but you'll enjoy getting pulled along.

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green; Read By Kate Rudd

ISBN: 9781455869749

GPL Teen Book Reviewer: Sheadly Marcelin

This book was a real tear jerker! It made me laugh and cry at the same time! Beautiful!

Holes by Louis Sachar; Read By Kerry Beyer

ISBN: 9780807286111

GPL Teen Book Reviewer: Fiona Carey
This was a good book. I really enjoyed it. I learned that friends care about each other and sometimes will do anything for the other.

 

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray; Read by Josephine Bailey

ISBN: 9781400086214

Publication Date: 2004-06-01

Book Reviewer: Liz Anastasi, Teen Services Librarian

An excellent first book of a series about magic, power, boarding school, and of course, saving the world.This audiobook, with the amazing and expressive voice actor Josephine Bailey, is exceptional and a real joy to listen to.