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Great eAudio Chapter Books for Kids

Turn the page on screen-time with these fiction and non-fiction read-aloud stories, sure to improve any road trip or rainy day! Featuring audiobooks for middle grades produced from 2020 onward.

Evanston Public Library

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  • Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life. Ages: 1-13
    eAudiobook, 2024[S.I.] : Books on Tape, 2024.
  • For fans of Odder and Skunk and Badger comes a heartwarming story of an unlikely friendship between a terse seagull and a badger who is not very badgerish. Published in 2025. Ages: 7-10
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  • Poet Renée Watson looks back at her childhood and urges readers to look forward at their futures with love, understanding, and celebration in this fully illustrated poetry collection. 2025 Odyssey Award (honor) for Excellence in Audiobook Production…
    eAudiobook, 2024[S.I.] : Books on Tape, 2024.
  • When twelve-year-old Garnet finally gets to meet her magical extended family she discovers they're all trapped in the ruins of their crumbling manor and Garnet must break a curse that has decimated three generations of Carrefours. Ages: 8-12
    eAudiobook, 2023[S.I.] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2023.
  • Main character, Danilo's, baseball talent lands him the opportunity to train in the States and find his absentee father, who may be the key to saving the family he abandoned as they deal with the devastating effects of the US's military invasion of…
    eAudiobook, 2025[S.I.] : HarperCollins, 2025.
  • This is the story of where dreams come from, a dream theater. And one specific theater-- The Lunarian Grand. The Lunarian is a magical theatre with a mind of its own. The theatre's troupe call themselves the Dreamatics, and together they grow sets…
    eAudiobook, 2023[S.I.] : Books on Tape, 2023.
  • Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation that…
    eAudiobook, 2023[S.I.] : Books on Tape, 2023.
  • One day, Mac (smartest boy in his class in a small town in California) receives a telephone call from the Queen of England, recruiting him to find the crown jewels (well, actually just the Coronation Spoon) and so Mac embarks on his first adventure…
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  • Narrative nonfiction of how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world—and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all. On a hot August day in Paris,…
    eAudiobook, 2023[S.I.] : Books on Tape, 2023.
  • Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry…
    eAudiobook, 2022[S.I.] : Books on Tape, 2022.
  • In this Indigenous written and centered story, a living legend is discovered roosting in the backyard. A unmissable game must be reached. A hair-raising mystery solved. A road trip full of adventure and danger taken. All while the overlapping…
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  • Rick Riordan Presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence that poses this question: What would you do if you had the power to reach through time and space and retrieve anything you want, including your mother, who is no longer living (in…
    eAudiobook, 2019[S.I.] : Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2019.
  • Life is hard for Willa, Grace and Freya, and their three younger sisters. Six motherless girls working a farm, living in fear of their cruel father and the superstition that obsesses him - the Curse of Six Daughters. With the arrival of the…
    eAudiobook, 2023[S.I.] : Scholastic Inc., 2023.
  • Sona is a Malech, a member of the ruling class that conquered Devia centuries ago. Malechs forbade music to prevent the native Devans from using their magic, and Sona hides her musical abilities lest they put her in danger. Then Sona discovers an…
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  • Mo is used to his father's fits of rage. When Abbu's moods shake the house, Mo is safe inside his head, with his cherished folktales. The best way to respond is not to engage. Apparently, his mama knows that too--which is why she took a job on the…
    eAudiobook, 2025[S.I.] : Quill Tree Books, 2025.
  • An undead fox serving as the Usher of souls has his life upended when a mysterious badger soul appears. I predict that this fantastic audiobook, complete with effective sound effects and the many voices rendered by award-winning stage actor,…
    eAudiobook, 2025[S.I.] : Hachette Audio, 2025.
  • All Pineda Matlage wants is to get through the school year and maybe pull an epic prank or two with his friends Junior, Ernesto, and Patsy. But class is disrupted when a slew of American soldiers descends upon their rural Texan town of Soledad.…
    eAudiobook, 2025[S.I.] : Dreamscape Media, 2025.
  • It’s 1889, barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a young Black family is tired of working as sharecroppers on land they don’t get to own. So when Will and his father hear about an upcoming land rush, they set out on a…
    eAudiobook, 2025[S.I.] : Hachette Audio, 2025.
  • Fern's lived at the Ranch, an off-the-grid, sustainable community in upstate New York, since she was six. The work is hard, but Fern admires the Ranch's leader, Dr. Ben. So when Fern's mother sneaks them away in the middle of the night and says Dr.…
    eAudiobook, 2024[S.I.] : Books on Tape, 2024.