Graham McNamee.  Acceleration

Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.  Read by Scott Brick.

Jules Verne.  Around the World in 80 Days

In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.  Read by Jim Dale.

Eoin Colfer.  Artemis Fowl:  The Opal Deception

After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl's mind was wiped of memories of the world below ground and any goodness grudgingly learned is now gone with the young genius reverting to his criminal lifestyle.  Read by Nathaniel Parker.

Narinder Dhami.  Bindi Babes

Three Indian-British sisters team up to marry off their traditional, nosy aunt and get her out of the house.  Read by Nina Wadia.

Angela Johnson.  Bird

Devastated by the loss of a second father, thirteen-year-old Bird follows her stepfather from Cleveland to Alabama in hopes of convincing him to come home, and along the way helps two boys cope with their difficulties.  Read by Chantale Hosein, Kamahl Palmer, and Matthew Pavich.

Sarah Mlynowski.  Bras & Broomsticks

Living in New York City with her mother and her younger sister, Miri, fourteen-year-old Rachel tries to persuade Miri, who has recently become a witch, to help her become popular at school and to try to stop their divorced father's wedding.  Read by Ariadne Meyers.

Kathe Koja.  Buddha Boy

With his shaved head and begging bowl the new kid is an automatic target for the bully boys of Edward Rucher High, an easy mark for their casual cruelty. Watching this, Justin would gladly stay as far from the newcomer as possible until their economics teacher pairs them for a project and he finds himself becoming fascinated by the kid the others mock as "Buddha Boy." The thing is, friendship with an outcast always carries a price, and soon Justin must decide if he can stay silent in the face of what he knows and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school. A scorching portrait of contemporary high school life, featuring a character listeners will never forget.  Read by Spencer Murphy and the Full Cast Family.

Ann Cameron.  Colibri

Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.  Read by Jacqui Kim.

Terry Trueman.  Cruise Control

A talented basketball player struggles to deal with the helplessness and anger that come with having a brother rendered completely dysfunctional by severe cerebral palsy and a father who deserted the family.  Read by Andy Paris.

Philip Beard.  Dear Zoe, A Novel

On September 11, 2001, far from either New York or Washington, Tess DeNunzio loses her three-year old sister to a hit-and-run driver. With the eyes of the world elsewhere, Tess's small tragedy sends her family reeling into an impenetrable silence. Dear Zoe is her attempt to break that silence.  Read by Cassandra Morris.

L. S. Matthews.  Fish

As fighting closes in on the village where Tiger's parents have been working, the three of them and a mysterious guide set out on a difficult journey to safety.  Read by J. Lamia.

Carl Hiaasen.  Flush

With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.  Read by Michael Welch.

Graham Gardner.  Inventing Elliot

Elliot, a victim of bullying, invents a calmer, cooler self when he changes schools in the middle of freshman year, but soon attracts the wrong kind of attention from the Guardians who "maintain order" at the new school.  Read by Dominic Taylor.

Bary D. Schmidt.  Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.  Read by  Sam Freed.

Tom Bodett.  Norman Tuttle on the Last Frontier:  A Novel in

Stories   Episodes in the life of Alaskan teenager, Norman Tuttle, as he grows from ages thirteen to fifteen, falls in love for the first time, and deepens his relationship with his father.  Read by Tom Bodett.

D. J. MacHale.  Pendragon, Book 1, The Merchant of Death

Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal and somewhat reluctant 14- year-old boy who is swept into an amazing five-year quest. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby. He is going to save the world. And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn't quite what he thought it was.  Read by William Dufris.

Meg Cabot.  Princess in Training

High school sophomore Princess Mia records in her diary her struggles with geometry, the expectations of being a college student's girlfriend, running for president of the student council, and a potential ecological disaster in her native land, Genovia.  Read by Clea Lewis.

Laurie Halse Anderson.  Prom

Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.  Read by Katherine Kellgren.

Nancy Farmer.  The Sea of Trolls

After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.  Read by Gerard Doyle.

Richard Peck.  The Teacher's Funeral:  A Comedy in Three Parts

In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."  Read by Dylan Baker.

Lynne Reid Banks.  Tiger, Tiger

Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar's daughter and the other becomes a man-eating "entertainment act" at the Colosseum.  Read by Jan Francis.

Sara Dessen.  Truth About Forever

The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.  Read by Stina Nielsen.

Marian Hale.  The Truth About Sparrows

Twelve-year-old Sadie promises that she will always be Wilma's best friend when their families leaves drought-stricken Missouri in 1933, but once in Texas, Sadie learns that she must try to make a new home--and new friends, too.  Read by Emily Janice Card.

Witi Ihimaera.  Whale Rider

The whale rider was Kahutia Te Rangi. Ancestor of the people of Te Tai Rawhiti, he travelled from Hawaiki, the place of the Ancients, to the East Coat of New Zealand. Then there was Kahu. The first great-grandchild of the whanau, she was loved by all her relatives except the one whose love she needed most -- her great-grandfather.  Read by Jay Laga'aia.

Rodman Philbrick.  The Young Man and the Sea

After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a hugh bluefin tuna.  Read by Kirby Heyborne.