16 Sep Hear It, Don’t Read It: Great Teen Audiobooks
Finding a great book is always fun. But what happens when you have the time to read but your hands are occupied? Grab yourself an audiobook and get the best of both worlds. Here are a few teen audiobooks to get you started.
Divergent
by Veronica Roth
In a dystopian Chicago divided into five virtue-based factions, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose between staying with her family and becoming who she truly is. She shocks everyone by choosing a faction no one expects and renames herself Tris, and endures a brutal initiation of physical trials and psychological simulations. As she bonds with fellow initiates, she must figure out who she can trust while hiding a dangerous secret about herself. That secret entangles her with a growing conflict threatening to tear her society apart, a secret that could either save the people she loves or destroy her.
The Second Chance of Darius Logan
by David F. Walker
Darius Logan, orphaned and hardened by years in foster care and rough neighborhoods, gets caught up in a drug deal gone wrong and expects to face life in prison. Instead, he’s offered an unlikely lifeline: a spot in the Second Chance program run by the Super Justice Force, a team of superpowered heroes. As Darius discovers new abilities and strength he never expected, but a new evil threatens to put everything, and everyone he cares far at risk.
Zeros
by Scott Westerfeld
Six California teens with strange powers known as the Zeroes are pulled back together when their friend Ethan, code named Scam, gets in over his head during a bank robbery gone wrong. Nate, code named Bellwether, the group’s self-appointed leader, reassembles the estranged team to help their friend, but their rescue attempt spirals into something much larger. With escalating run-ins with increasingly dangerous criminals and organizations. Along the way the group crosses paths with a new powered teen named Kelsie, who can manipulate crowds at will, drawing the whole group deeper into the unfolding chaos they never expected.
Zhara
by S. Jae-Jones
In the Morning Realms, magic is outlawed and magicians are feared as the cause of a monster plague from twenty years ago, leaving Jin Zhara to hide her own magical abilities while caring for her blind sister and enduring her stepmother’s cruelty. Everything changes when she meets Han, whose connection to the secret Guardians of Dawn draws her into their world and reveals that the marsh’s monster rumors are tied to something darker. A mysterious plague is turning magicians into monsters, and the Guardians believe a demon is behind it. To restore the balance Zhara must uncover and embrace the elemental warrior within before it’s too late.
The Last Rhee Witch
by Jenna Lee-Yun
Ronnie Miller, who’s always relied on her dad and best friend Jack, finds herself being sent off to sleepaway Camp Foster and the dreaded activities typical of camp like ropes courses and kayaking. Once there, she discovers an old manor supposedly haunted by a gwishin in a blood-red scarf and stalked by a dokkaebi hunting for the last Rhee Witch. All the while the counselors speak in rhymes she’s mysteriously started using herself. Forced to confront new friends, new enemies, and unsettling truths about her own identity, Ronnie learns that the constancy she craved was never really an option.
Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25
by Richard Paul Evans
To everyone else at his high school Michael Vey seems like a typical fourteen-year-old with Tourette’s syndrome. What they don’t know is that he also has power over electricity. Michael thinks he’s alone in his secret until he learns that cheerleader Taylor has similar abilities. He teams up with her and his friend Ostin to uncover the truth behind their powers. Unfortunately their search draws the attention of an organization intent on capturing and controlling the “electric children” for their own gain.
Girl in Pieces
by Kathleen Glasgow
Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis carries more grief than most people face in a lifetime, including the loss of her father and her best friend, and a mother who can no longer support her. She has turned her pain back on herself as a way to numb it, finding a fragile sense of calm in this even as each new wound hardens her further. The story follows her painful path toward healing, suggesting that hitting bottom is sometimes what it takes to start finding a way back.
Skyward
by Brandon Sanderson
Spensa lives on a besieged world where becoming a pilot is her lifelong dream, but her father’s reputation as a deserter who abandoned his squadron has made that path nearly impossible for her. Despite the stigma attached to her family name, she refuses to give up on flight school and her ambition to fight among the stars. After making an unexpected discovery in a hidden cavern, she finds an unexpected chance to pursue the dream she could never give up.
– written by Alex B, Teen Central Library Assistant
