The children's room now holds a collection of audio-enabled books for children - there are many exciting picture books in this new collection, but this list will help you hone in on the 18 chapter books (both "transitional" chapter books for roughly 1st-2nd graders and "middle grade" chapter books for roughly 3rd-6th graders) that are audio-enabled.
"Audio-enabled" means each book has a small audio device built right into the back cover. This device will read the book aloud while a reader follows along with the text. The controls are easy and headphones can be plugged in, too. The books are charged with a mini USB cord (like Android phones/devices use), but the books can be played dozens of times before they need a charge. Check out this list of audio-enabled chapter books - and search the catalog for "jRead-Along" to see our full audio-enabled collection, including picture books and nonfiction books! New chapter books will be added regularly, too. Place some on hold for your child today!
The cricket in Times Square
George Selden
jREAD-ALONG Selden
Historical Fiction, Kids
The adventures of Chester, a very musical country cricket, who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.
Dog diaries : a middle school story
James Patterson
jREAD-ALONG Patterson
Humor, Kids
When the evil Mrs. Stricker threatens to send Junior, Rafe Khatchadorian's dog, back to the pound, Junior and Rafe go to obedience school to learn how to follow the rules.
Ramona the pest
Beverly Cleary
jREAD-ALONG Cleary
Kids
Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled.
Big Nate : in a class by himself
Lincoln Peirce
jREAD-ALONG Pierce
Kids, Humor, Graphic Novels
Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.
Big Nate goes for broke
Lincoln Peirce
jREAD-ALONG Peirce
Humor, Kids, Graphic Novels
Daredevil Nate's quest to achieve greatness lands him in the hospital with a broken bone, and while his family and friends are eager to help him cope, they soon tire of his increasingly ridiculous demands.
Big Nate in the zone
Lincoln Peirce
jREAD-ALONG Peirce
Humor, Graphic Novels, Kids
Stuck in a rut of bad luck, Nate Wright gets a boost from Chad's lucky foot and suddenly, good luck is everywhere he turns.
The creature of the pines
Adam Gidwitz
jREAD-ALONG Gidwitz
Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
After encountering a Jersey Devil while on a field trip to the Pine Barrens, Elliot and his new friend Uchenna help their weird teacher Professor Fauna rescue the mythological creature from a pair of greedy billionaire brothers.
Sasquatch and the Muckleshoot
Adam Gidwitz
jREAD-ALONG Gidwitz
Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
Elliot and his friend Uchenna join Professor Fauna as they travel to the Pacific Northwest and help keep a sasquatch family safe from a pack of journalists and a logging company.
The Basque dragon
Adam Gidwitz
jREAD-ALONG Gidwitz
Adventure, Fantasy, Kids
"Elliot and Uchenna join Professor Fauna on another adventure--a trip to the Basque country where they have to save a herensuge from the billionaire Schmoke Brothers"--
Junie B. Jones is a graduation girl
Barbara Park
jREAD-ALONG Park
Kids, Early Chapter Books
Junie B. Jones has just turned six and is looking forward to her kindergarten graduation, but when grape juice stains the white gown she could not resist trying on, she is afraid graduation is ruined.
Junie B. Jones and the yucky blucky fruitcake
Barbara Park
jREAD-ALONG Park
Kids, Early Chapter Books
Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind.
Junie B. Jones and a little monkey business
Barbara Park
jREAD-ALONG Park
Kids, Early Chapter Books
Through a misunderstanding, Junie B. thinks that her new baby brother is really a baby monkey, and her report of this news creates excitement and trouble in her kindergarten class.
Imagination according to Humphrey
Betty G. Birney
jREAD-ALONG Birney
Kids, Early Chapter Books
During a creative writing unit at Longfellow School, the students in Mrs. Brisbane's class practice using their imagination with their very own writing journals--and Humphrey finds out that writing from his imagination is harder than it looks.
Spring according to Humphrey
Betty G. Birney
jREAD-ALONG Birney
Kids, Early Chapter Books
"To Humphrey and the students at Longfellow School, spring seems impossibly late this year. Fortunately, planning a school Family Fun Night keeps the students (and classroom pets) busy as they look for signs of the changing seasons"--
Adventure according to Humphrey
Betty G. Birney
jREAD-ALONG Birney
Kids, Early Chapter Books
Humphrey the classroom hamster has adventures going to the library, learning about the ocean, and sailing across a pond on a sailboat.
Malala : my story of standing up for girls' rights
Malala Yousafzai
jREAD-ALONG Yousafzai
Kids, Biographies
"Malala retells her story of speaking out for girls' education rights for chapter book readers"--
Some assembly required
Brian (Brian Michael) Lynch
jREAD-ALONG Lynch
Kids, Early Chapter Books
Attending Toy Academy to train in the art of play, misfit little toy Grumbolt, who is not an action figure, a stuffed animal or a collectible, resolves to find his proper place before a rival plot by Evil Toy Academy compels Grumbolt to take a dangerous risk to save his school.
The mouse and the motorcycle
Beverly Cleary
jREAD-ALONG Cleary
Kids
A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling.