Middle Grade Fantasy Audiobooks Kids Will Love This Spring Break

The magical town of Tres Leches is home to the most feared and revered monstruos of Tejas. La Lechuza — a shape-shifting owl witch — surveys the night skies, plucking troublemakers from the street. Needless to say La Lechuza’s daughter, Ava, is not the most popular girl in town. Her whole life, she’s been ostracized because of her mother’s vigilantism. As Ava seeks to understand her mother, she uncovers a family secret, revealing her place in a larger nocturnal legacy that’s been waiting for her to take flight. The Los Monstruos trilogy brims with magic, adventure, and Mexican folklore, and is perfect for the fantasy-seeking middle-grade reader.

What reader wouldn’t love to explore a magical library? When eleven-and-a-half-year-old Dally rescues an envelope from her mother’s clutches, she finds a map leading to a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time. With each visit to the past, she uncovers secrets about her own family’s history. But the library has secrets of its own, intentions that would shape her life as surely as her mother’s meticulous plans. Part mystery, part adventure, Dally’s story is not one to miss.

Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in — until a sticky creature steals Eddie’s notebook. In an attempt to wrestle the journal out of the creature’s hands, Tristan punches a tree, accidentally ripping open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this world. Can Tristan save this new world before he loses more of the things he loves?

Twelve-year-old orphan Yeung Zhi Ging wins an invitation to train as a Silhouette, or an apprentice to immortals. Zhi Ging must face the challenging trials set by her teachers to prove that she’s worthy of being a Silhouette — despite her rivals’ attempts to sabotage her. When Fui Gwai, an evil spirit threatens the Silhouettes, Zhi Ging must use her talents to save them all.

When attending a wedding in Cairo, Sahara Rashad uncovers a few family mysteries. First, her cousins are convinced that the bride-to-be is a witch, then, Sahara’s late mother’s beloved necklace begins to glow — before vanishing … In this stunning middle-grade fantasy inspired by Arabian legends, Sahara must journey to the underground trove of Ali Baba’s treasure.