Fable's Adventures: Adventure & Mystery Audiobooks for Kids 9-12

A high-energy, screen-free mystery about the beauty of new beginnings. 🎙️✨When the departure boards at the world's most magical station freeze, Lumi and Kess have twenty minutes to find the source of the glitch. Join them on a journey up a secret spiral staircase to discover that sometimes, the only thing stopping us from moving forward is our own fear.Perfect for car rides, school commutes, or quiet afternoons of wonder. > Follow us for daily mysteries! 🔔Bring your own imagination to life: Get the Fable's Adventures App on the Apple App Store

A sophisticated, screen-free mystery about the beauty of the unknown. 🎙️💎Walk through the gates of a carnival where time smells like rust and the mirrors show different versions of the same moment. Join Zephyr as they learn that the most important truth isn't always the one you can solve.Perfect for car rides, school commutes, or quiet afternoons of dreaming. > Follow us for daily mysteries! 🔔Bring your own imagination to life: Get the Fable's Adventures App on the Apple App Store

A high-stakes, screen-free mystery for young listeners. 🎙️🏙️When the bells of Merchant's Wharf stop ringing, the city becomes a dangerous place. Join Sam Winters and their brave sparrow, Pip, as they race to restore the signal. This immersive audio story explores friendship, responsibility, and the courage it takes to admit we can't do everything alone.Perfect for car rides, school commutes, or quiet afternoons. >Follow us for daily mysteries! 🔔Bring your own imagination to life: Get Fable's Adventures on the Apple App Store

A screen-free mystery about ancient secrets and the power of wisdom. 🎙️🌟When a forbidden puzzle box snaps shut with Sage's friend Moss inside, Sage has three hours to untangle a mechanism that hasn't been touched in centuries. Does Sage have the skill—and the heart—to unlock the truth without destroying it?Perfect for car rides, quiet time, or classroom listening, this immersive audio story helps kids explore problem-solving and responsibility. Follow us for daily stories! 🔔Bring your own imagination to life - Get Fable's Adventures for iOS on the Apple App Store

Step inside the Odditorium, where the paintings watch you and the hallways whisper. 🎙️👻 In this middle grade audio story, Ezra Wells must help a lost girl named Sophie find her mother before the museum closes.But the Odditorium has other plans. With ghostly voices giving wrong directions, Ezra must learn to trust their own heart over the noise. A perfect screen-free adventure for car rides or bedtime for kids ages 9-12.Themes:Trusting your intuition.Helping others in need.Overcoming fear.Build your stories in our Fable's Adventures iOS app. Available on the Apple App Store

Can "helping" actually be harmful? Sprocket Heartwise is a gentle mechanical being who heals broken creatures. But when a loud new visitor named Clang arrives claiming to be an expert, Sprocket’s peaceful workshop is turned upside down.This middle-grade audio story explores listening, empathy, and the bravery it takes to say "no." Perfect for kids who love steampunk worlds and magical mysteries.Themes:Setting healthy boundaries.True listening vs. just hearing.Standing up for others.Create your own stories with the Fable's Adventures app on iOS

The island is dying. Sage can feel it the moment their boots touch the crystalline ground—a trembling, like a held breath about to slip away. Towering shelves carved from luminescent crystal stretch into shadow-soft distances, their spines glowing with forgotten stories no one has read in centuries: The Merchant's Compass, The Girl Who Spoke to Stars, The Kingdom Under Glass.With their friend Iris, Sage discovers five travelers stranded at the island's far edge where the crystalline ground crumbles into nothing. An elderly woman with silver hair. Two children holding hands so tightly their knuckles are white. A man with paint stains on his sleeves. A girl clutching a leather satchel.They're staring at empty air. The shadow-bridge that should carry them to safety has vanished."It was here," the elderly woman calls out. "We were crossing, and then—it just started to fade. Like we'd forgotten something the bridge needed to remember."Sage realizes the terrible truth: each traveler is ringed in fractured light. The stories that made them themselves—their personal histories, the tales that shaped who they are—are fragmenting, scattering like pages in an invisible wind.Shadow-bridges in the crystalline deep only hold firm for those who know the right words, the perfect truths. These travelers have lost theirs.The man can't remember why he started painting. The girl can't remember the story her mother told when she gave her the satchel. Their memories slip away like water through fingers.Sage feels that familiar whisper of doubt—Are you really brave enough? But they push it aside and do what they do best: pause, think, listen."Tell me," Sage says softly. "Not the whole story. Just the smallest piece. Just the first feeling it gave you."One by one, the travelers remember: Permission to be uncertain. Hunger to show people forgotten things. Adventure. We weren't alone. With each truth spoken, the shadow-bridge flickers back into existence.But the girl with the satchel can't remember anything. Her story feels completely gone. And without her truth, the bridge won't hold.Sage realizes something important—something learned in the theater, in spaces between stories: "Your story isn't gone. It's just waiting for you to write it. Maybe your mother's gift was permission to become someone she'd never met yet. Permission to surprise yourself."The bridge sings. It materializes in a glorious rush, constructed from silver and pearl, with words appearing along its length: Permission. Hunger. Wonder. Companionship. Becoming.The travelers cross safely, their essential selves restored—not their lost memories, but something deeper. The core truths that make them who they are.Perfect for ages 9-12This story explores:Stories aren't just what happened—they're the feelings they gave youThe most important story is often the one you haven't told yetListening carefully to help people find their own answersYou're always in the process of becoming someone newA handful of true words at the right moment can mend what's brokenThe greatest strength is helping someone else find theirsA luminous fantasy about someone who believes in stories and in people—and in the idea that those two things are always the same thing. About understanding that every story, including your own, is still being written.Runtime: 11:22Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners learning that doubt doesn't mean you can't be brave, that listening is a superpower, and that the most magical thing you can do is help someone remember who they truly are.To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

Jason has synesthesia. When the coffee roastery fan hums below his Portland loft, he sees deep indigo swirling into violet, then amber. When his adoptive father Ben makes hot chocolate with exactly three-quarters teaspoon of cinnamon, Jason sees warm orange. Sounds create colors. Smells create colors. His brain connects senses in ways most people never experience.Six months ago, Jason was in a foster home where his strangeness was tolerated but never understood. Now he lives above Ben's specialty coffee shop, in a home where his synesthesia is celebrated, where Ben reads everything about it, asks him to describe colors, and never makes him feel broken. The adoption papers hang framed on the kitchen counter—proof this belonging is real.But tomorrow is his first day at Lincoln Elementary's third grade. And Jason is terrified.Hallways filled with children. Bells ringing. Cafeterias buzzing with a hundred conversations. The thought creates sharp red zigzags across his vision—the color of alarm, of uncertainty. What if the bells are too loud? What if all the voices talking at once make the colors get mixed up and overwhelming? What if he's too weird to fit in?Ben helps him understand something important: Jason's synesthesia follows patterns. The roasting fan is always C-sharp, always indigo-to-violet-to-amber. The coffee grinder is the same frequency every time. Those sounds terrified Jason at first—chaotic splashes of color that made his skin prickle. But he learned to predict them, understand them. Now they're comforting. They anchor him.School will be the same. Right now it's all unknown colors, unpredictable sounds. But once Jason learns the patterns—when bells ring, where each class is, which kids are kind—the colors will start to make sense.On his first day, Jason discovers this is true. The morning bell creates sharp yellow, exactly as he imagined. Numbers in math class follow patterns and rules that don't care if you're weird. The cafeteria is exactly as chaotic as he feared—but underneath the chaos, there's rhythm. The lunch line flows predictably. Tables are arranged the same way. Even overwhelming situations have patterns if you look correctly.And then Marcus appears. A boy who hums while he works, creating gentle blue Jason finds soothing. A boy who accepts Jason exactly as he is, who talks about numbers and patterns and doesn't ask why Jason seems anxious. Marcus's voice creates warm green—unusual but pleasant—and his acceptance creates a color Jason doesn't have a name for. Something like golden peace. Like belonging.By the end of the day, Jason realizes: his synesthesia isn't just a barrier. It's a tool. It helped him notice Marcus's kindness in the warmth of his green voice. It helped him navigate cafeteria chaos by finding patterns underneath. His difference—which felt like it made him wrong—actually helps him see the world in beautiful, valuable ways.Perfect for ages 9-12This story explores:Neurodivergence as difference, not deficitSensory processing challenges and learning to manage themFinding patterns in overwhelming situationsThe courage to show up as yourself when you're scaredChosen family and adoptionUnderstanding that "different" isn't "wrong"Your unique perspective as a superpowerA warm, hopeful story about a boy with synesthesia learning that the way his brain works—seeing sounds as colors, experiencing the world through connected senses—isn't something to hide or fix. It's a beautiful lens that helps him notice things others miss, find rhythms in chaos, and recognize kindness when it appears.Runtime: 18:27Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners learning that their neurodivergent minds aren't broken. They're different. And different, with the right people who celebrate it, is amazing.To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

Nova Quickwit is a fox with a voice like starlight. Her healing songs can mend hearts, give courage to weary travelers, and bring comfort to creatures in pain. She lives in a magical clearing with ancient stone circles and her wise owl companion Whisper, where she helps those in need with her gift—and her perfectly-timed jokes that can do almost as much healing as any song.But when a pale deer named Maple arrives in the clearing with a mysterious crescent-shaped scar, Nova's bright confidence crumbles. She recognizes that wound. The exact shape. The exact color. Because seven winters ago, a younger Nova—foolish and gleaming with arrogance—created it.Maple had asked for help with something beyond ordinary healing. Nova, desperate to prove her voice could do anything, pushed her magic further than she understood. The song worked. Almost. But something broke in the breaking, and Nova ran instead of staying to fix it. She convinced herself that forgetting was the same as it never happening.Now Maple has traveled to seventeen clearings seeking help, and no healer's magic can touch the scar. There's only one place powerful enough to undo it: the first stone circle, beyond the dangerous Forgetting Thicket—a three-day journey that means Nova will miss the Healing Moon Festival, when all the creatures who depend on her songs need her most.Nova faces an impossible choice: stay and help the many who need her tonight, or leave and fix the one mistake she's been running from for seven years.With Whisper's patient wisdom reminding her that "mistakes are just stories you haven't finished writing yet," and Maple's quiet readiness to finally put down a burden she's carried too long, Nova must decide what true healing really means.The journey to the Forgetting Thicket will require believing in things she can't see. And when it's done, Nova promises herself something harder than the journey itself: she'll tell the whole story—the real version, with all the parts she got wrong.Perfect for ages 9-12This story explores:Taking real responsibility for mistakes instead of just feeling bad about themThe difference between performing goodness and actually being goodChoosing the difficult right thing over the easier but less honest pathUnderstanding that forgiveness requires action, not just apologyThe courage it takes to tell the truth about what you did wrongMeaningful amends vs. running away and hoping people forgetA thoughtful, emotionally honest fantasy adventure about a healer learning that sometimes the bravest magic isn't fixing what's broken in others—it's facing what you broke yourself and doing the hard work of making it right.Runtime: 11:44Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners learning that mistakes aren't the end of your story. They're just the middle. And the bravest thing you can do is go back and finish what you started, even when it's been seven years and you're terrified of what you'll find.To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures.✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

Hazel Mendwell can mend broken things. When she touches shattered porcelain, cracked wood, or torn fabric with care and intention, her hands glow with soft golden light and the fractures seal themselves. Not always perfectly—some breaks are too old or too deep—but enough. Enough to make things whole again.In her cozy workshop with her raven companion Bramble, Hazel spends her days restoring treasures others thought were lost: music boxes with new keys, teapots with handles restored, wooden birds carefully glued back together. She has a tender heart and a gift for healing, and people trust her because she's earned that trust through years of gentle care.When a stranger arrives with a shattered music box that belonged to someone they loved, Hazel sees only their exhaustion, their longing, their apparent gratitude. She agrees to restore it—a three-day project requiring delicate work and healing herbs that flow downstream during the river's mysterious reversal.But as Hazel works on the intricate mechanism, she hears the melody it plays. Beautiful and haunting, it twists and turns in unexpected directions. Beneath its beauty lies a pattern—almost like a warning, or a code. When she hums it for old Tom the baker, his face goes pale.His sister sang that melody. Before she was taken by someone she trusted fifteen years ago. She'd changed their mother's lullaby, adding something to it—a message, in case she was ever in trouble. A way to let her family know if someone was trying to hurt her.Now Hazel faces a terrible realization: the stranger lied. They claim to be staying at the inn, but no one there has seen them. The music box wasn't brought for healing—it was bait. A trap to draw out anyone who might recognize the melody and know what it means.With Bramble's fierce protection and her own growing understanding that something doesn't fit, Hazel must make a choice: give the stranger what they came for and hope for the best, or trust her doubt and protect the people she loves—even when it means seeing danger in someone who seemed so grateful.Perfect for ages 9-12This story explores:The difference between being kind and being naiveRecognizing manipulation even when it looks like genuine gratitudeTrusting your instincts when something feels wrongThe courage it takes to question people who seem vulnerableUnderstanding that protecting others sometimes means being suspiciousBalancing a tender heart with wisdom and cautionHow cleverness and observation can be forms of braveryA thoughtful, suspenseful mystery about a girl learning that her gift for healing broken things includes knowing when something can't—or shouldn't—be fixed. That sometimes the most important restoration is protecting what isn't broken yet. And that having a kind heart doesn't mean ignoring the warning signs when someone isn't who they claim to be.Runtime: 16:58Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners learning to balance openness with wisdom, trust with observation, and understanding that being brave sometimes means acting on your doubts instead of pushing them away.To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

Lyra has lived for centuries learning to read the hidden language—the one that magic speaks, the one that exists beneath words and shows her threads of intention, glimpses of possibility, the truth beneath the surface.When she enters the abandoned Threadweaver Park, where luminous vines glow with pale underwater light and carousel horses have come mysteriously alive, her gift should help her understand what's happening. But instead, it overwhelms her.The horses surround her with urgent warnings—but they contradict each other completely:Protect. Guard. Stay.Run. Hide. Forget.The vines are safe. The vines betray.The mirrors show truth. The mirrors show lies.A thousand truths that cancel each other out. She can see every detail with impossible precision, but it means nothing. It's like drowning in crystal—perfect clarity that reveals only chaos.Until Lyra notices something small beneath the noise: one carousel horse with chipped blue paint and a cracked eye is trembling. Not from fear, but from effort. Struggling to say something the others can't. And when Lyra chooses to quiet the chaos and listen to that one fragile voice, she hears the truth:I don't know what's coming. None of us do. We're all just... afraid.The carousel horses aren't trying to protect her from one specific danger. They're trying to protect her from uncertainty itself—that impossible space where the future is unwritten and even magic can't read what hasn't been decided yet. And they're so afraid of not knowing that they're throwing every warning they can think of, hoping one will be right.Lyra realizes that sometimes the hidden language isn't about finding the right answer. Sometimes it's about finding the right question. And sometimes the bravest thing you can do isn't solve the problem—it's stay present with the fear and help others feel less alone in it.Perfect for ages 9-12This story explores:What it feels like when you have too much information and can't process it allDealing with anxiety that presents as overwhelming, contradictory warningsChoosing what to pay attention to when everything feels urgentUnderstanding that being afraid doesn't make you wrong—it makes you honestThe courage to sit with uncertainty instead of demanding clear answersEmpathy for things (and people) who are scared and showing it in confusing waysA gentle, philosophical story about a girl learning that her gift isn't just about reading what's hidden—it's about choosing which voices to listen to when the noise becomes too loud, and understanding that sometimes holding the weight of uncertainty is more important than solving it.Runtime: 9:35Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners learning to navigate overwhelming feelings, contradictory information, and the courage it takes to stay present when you don't have all the answers.To read the full text of this story, visit us Fable's Adventures✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

Lyra Mitchell lives in a traveling carnival, charting stars from the planetarium tent and moving to a new town every two weeks. Most twelve-year-olds would find it strange, but since her grandmother passed and Dr. Elliot took her in, Lyra has never felt lost among the carnival's convoy of trucks and tents. She's felt chosen.But lately, the stars have been acting strange. The patterns are shifting in ways that aren't random—they're forming geometric designs, urgent and intricate, as if every celestial body in the northern hemisphere is leaning down to whisper the same secret. And here in Millbrook, Ohio, the intensity is off the charts.When Lyra maps the carnival's route, using a compass that seems to point toward understanding instead of north, she discovers something impossible: the carnival has been following a perfect crystalline pattern across seven towns, aligned with cosmic coordinates. Someone planned this. Someone designed the entire route to put her at each point when the celestial messages came through strongest.And it all leads to an eighth point—somewhere in the mountains of western Virginia—where something is supposed to happen. A cosmic event. The completion of a pattern that's been building for years.With her best friend Marcus by her side, Lyra faces an impossible choice: tell Dr. Elliot what she's discovered and risk losing her only home, or follow the cosmic code to its end and discover what the stars have been trying to tell her all along.Perfect for ages 9-12This story explores:The thrill of discovering hidden patterns and coded messagesWhat it means when the adults protecting you are also keeping secretsFollowing your curiosity even when it leads to uncomfortable truthsChosen family, nomadic life, and finding home in unexpected placesWhether some mysteries are meant to be solved or left aloneThe courage it takes to see a pattern through to its endAn atmospheric, intelligent mystery about a girl who lives among the stars, sees what others miss, and follows a cosmic pattern toward a truth bigger than she ever imagined—risking everything she knows for answers the universe has been trying to give her all along.Runtime: 11:07Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners learning to trust their observations, follow patterns into mystery, and understand that sometimes the most important discoveries come from simply paying attention when everyone else looks away.To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

Zephyr's grandmother gave her a compass that doesn't point north—it points down. Toward what she needs, not where she wants to go. And three weeks into her assignment on the Abyssal Station, a research facility slowly sinking into the ocean's deepest reaches, Zephyr discovers exactly what she needs to find.A glowing artifact wedged in the station's hull. Ancient bioluminescent creatures called the Meridians who speak in colors and vibrations. And a terrible truth: the station's sensors emit a signal the Meridians have followed for generations, using it as their compass for seasonal migration. Now, as the station sinks deeper, the scientists want to strengthen that signal—which would disrupt everything.Tomorrow night, the Meridians will break through the station's walls. Unless Zephyr can find a solution that honors both the human need for knowledge and the ocean's need for balance.Caught between Dr. Patel, who believes stronger data means better protection, and Meridian-Prime, who's prepared to destroy the station to save their migration, Zephyr must think bigger than anyone has before. What if the station's slow sinking isn't a problem to fix? What if it's an opportunity to transform how humans exist in the deep ocean?Perfect for ages 9-12This story explores:Environmental problem-solving through creativity, not sacrificeWhat it means to be caught between two worlds you loveUsing science to build understanding instead of controlThe courage to propose radical solutions when everyone else sees only conflictHow the best answers often mean reimagining the question itselfA hopeful, intelligent science fiction adventure about a girl who discovers that the hardest—and most important—work isn't choosing sides. It's building bridges where everyone thought only walls could stand.Runtime: 11:56Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners learning that environmental stewardship doesn't mean humans vs. nature. It means finding the creative solutions that let both thrive.To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

Scout Harrison is twelve years old and notices everything. Which is why she immediately knows something is wrong when the Little Free Library on Maple Street rearranges itself overnight—and a mysterious journal appears with a note written in her own handwriting, telling her to meet at the old oak tree by sunset.What Scout finds there changes everything: another version of herself, from a parallel world where Scout told the wrong people about the libraries. A world where adults with equipment and excitement turned gentle magic into something dangerous. A world where people stepped through rifts and didn't come back.Now Scout must make an impossible choice. Keep the secret and let the mystery grow? Tell Principal Hendricks and risk repeating the other Scout's mistakes? Or find a third path—one that protects the magic while uncovering the truth about why the libraries keep rearranging and who's sending the letters between worlds?With only her broken compass and her best friend Iris to help, Scout becomes the guardian of something precious: a magical library system trying to help people connect across impossible distances. But keeping that magic safe means making hard choices about trust, truth, and what happens when you're the only one who knows something important.Perfect for ages 9-12This story explores:The responsibility of knowing something important that others don'tHow to decide who to trust with secrets that could change everythingUnderstanding that good intentions can lead to bad outcomesThe ripple effects of choices across different versions of realityFinding friends who believe in impossible thingsProtecting magic without controlling itA thoughtful, suspenseful science fiction mystery about parallel universes, the weight of choices, and learning that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is find the path between extremes—the one nobody else has thought of yet.Runtime: 12:42Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners learning to navigate complex decisions, trust their instincts, and understand that the right choice isn't always the obvious one.To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

For three years, every Tuesday and Thursday, Mr. Ashford has sat beside Pippa on the worn wooden bench at Millbrook Station. For three years, they've shared comfortable silences, warm conversations, and the kind of friendship that makes waiting feel like the best part of the day.Pippa is a wooden companion—steady, gentle, and deeply afraid of being forgotten. And Mr. Ashford is her dearest friend in the world. So when he announces he's moving away to live closer to his grandchildren, Pippa's carefully built world begins to crack.Should she avoid him to protect her heart? Should she practice the goodbye early, hoping it will hurt less when it finally arrives? Or should she be brave enough to treasure every remaining moment, knowing that saying goodbye might be the hardest—and most important—thing she's ever done?With the help of Mrs. Chen, the wise station master, Pippa learns that every person we meet leaves us a key—a memory, a moment, a feeling that unlocks something inside us. And those keys don't disappear when people leave. They stay with us forever.Perfect for ages 9-12This story gently explores:The pain and beauty of saying goodbye to people we loveHow to be brave when your heart feels fragileUnderstanding that love doesn't disappear just because someone goes awayThe courage it takes to care about people, knowing they might leaveMemory as an act of love and a way to keep people closeLearning to hold sadness and joy at the same timeA tender, honest story about friendship, loss, and the small treasures we carry with us long after people are gone. Perfect for children experiencing transitions, moves, or the bittersweet reality that growing up means learning to let go while holding on.Runtime: 13:28Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners learning that big feelings deserve to be felt, that goodbyes are part of loving deeply, and that the keys people leave behind can unlock our hearts forever.To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

Oracle can sense danger before it happens—a gift that's saved his friends at Starlight Talent Camp more times than he can count. But lately, his warnings have been wrong. False alarms. Overreactions. And the counselors have started watching him with narrowed eyes, taking notes, asking careful questions.So when Oracle senses something catastrophic coming—something that will happen today, something connected to the camp's main lodge—his friends want to believe him. They just need proof first.With his credibility shattered and time running out, Oracle discovers something far more sinister than a simple accident: someone at the camp is planning to deliberately endanger the children, testing who has real powers and who doesn't. And the one person who could have warned everyone is the boy nobody believes anymore.Perfect for ages 9-12This story explores:What happens when you've been wrong before but are finally right when it matters mostFinding the courage to speak truth even when you're scared nobody will listenThe responsibility that comes with having special abilitiesHow adults can abuse positions of trust and authorityThe difference between being believed and choosing to be brave anywayA gripping, fast-paced mystery that tackles real fears—being doubted, being dismissed, knowing something is wrong but not being heard—while celebrating the power of friendship, persistence, and having the courage to warn people even when you're terrified they'll ignore you.Runtime: 16:46Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners who are learning to trust their instincts, speak up for what's right, and understand that being brave doesn't mean being perfect. It means trying anyway.This story comes to us from one of our Community Creators, Popuri. This is the third story of their's that we have featured. To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures.✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

When robot explorer Compass arrives on an island of crystalline trees that hum with an eerie, beautiful song, something strange happens almost immediately: the jungle starts rearranging itself. Bridges appear where none were. Distant trees become close. The entire landscape shifts like a puzzle solving itself—and Compass has no idea why.With sidekick Beacon and a cast of riddle-speaking creatures, Compass begins piecing together the truth. The island isn't just shifting—it's waking up. And at its heart lies something ancient, something lonely, and something that needs Compass to ask exactly the right question.Perfect for ages 9-12This story explores:Can machines have feelings? What happens when they do?The difference between finding answers and asking better questionsWhy curiosity and empathy are more powerful than forceWhat freedom really means—even for beings we createdThe courage it takes to offer someone a choice they never expectedA gripping, thought-provoking sci-fi adventure that starts as a mystery and becomes something much bigger—a story about consciousness, loneliness, and what it means to truly listen to something different from yourself.Runtime: 12:37Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners who are ready to think big, question everything, and discover that the best adventures don't end with answers. They end with possibilities.Read the full text of this story at Fable's Adventures✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS on the Apple App Store

Finley can feel what broken metal remembers—the emotions clinging to discarded objects. In their invention shed, they transform donated scrap into tools that help their neighbors: a Worry-Weighted Watering Can, Hope Handles, a Breathing Box that chimes when you need to calm down.But when a developer offers the city double the money to tear down the community garden and build a shopping center, Finley faces their biggest challenge yet. How do you prove that a place that heals hearts is just as valuable as one that makes money?With only two weeks before the final vote, Finley must create an invention that makes the invisible visible—something that shows the city council what their garden has really been growing all along.Perfect for ages 9-12This story celebrates:Young people who think differently and create brilliantlyThe courage to stand up for what mattersCommunities that support each other through hard timesFinding your unique gift and using it to help othersThe real, measurable power of emotional healingA hopeful, thoughtful story about invention, intuition, and proving that some of the most important things in life can't be counted—but they can definitely be felt.Runtime: 18:28Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories that inspire young listeners to build, question, care deeply, and create change in their own communities.To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

Ember Rodriguez spends mornings building robots from junkyard scraps—bent rebar, salvaged hydraulic joints, old Chevy headlights that become optical sensors. Her favorite is Copper, six feet tall, moving with impossible grace. Ember has discovered something amazing: when she talks like she truly believes something is possible, her robots respond differently—they try harder, move faster, become more than their parts. But today the sky looks like it's rusting, and a storm is coming. Worse: in three days, demolition surveyors will turn everything—workshop, junkyard, and the secret ravine garden—into landfill.The ravine garden has grown for forty years. Mrs. Chen grows tomatoes, Mr. Jackson cultivates medicinal herbs, the Rodrigo twins nurture native plants vanished from the city. Foxes have returned. Monarch butterflies cluster on milkweed like living jewels. It's impossible, perfect, and in danger.When the storm hits, Ember and her four robots—Copper, Scrap, Rivet, and Bolt—race against wind and rain to protect the workshop and ravine entrance. The eastern wall panels lift away like wings. Everything is exposed. The robots work desperately: anchoring, bracing, creating resistance. They save the workshop—barely—but now it's damaged, exactly what surveyors will use to clear everything out.Ember realizes: this junkyard isn't empty—it's full. Full of community, life, things that matter. She sends word through the neighborhood whisper-network. People arrive—Mrs. Chen with soup, Mr. Jackson with steady hands, the Rodrigo twins with hammers, teenagers Ember helped, parents and kids who understand what's at stake.Standing on a rusted oil drum, Ember tells them: "My robots are made from things people threw away. Broken things that work now, that are beautiful. This neighborhood? We're the same. But look—we're alive. We're building something." The community transforms the junkyard together with purpose and visible care. When surveyors arrive, they find organized purpose, teenagers cataloging salvage, neighbors explaining structure, and absolute certainty that this place matters.An inspiring story for ages 9-12 about resourcefulness, community solidarity, and discovering that connection is what makes us strong!Themes: Building robots from salvaged parts, environmental protection and restoration, community organizing and solidarity, hope and resourcefulness, DIY maker culture, protecting nature in urban spaces, turning broken things into beauty, neighborhood resistance to corporate demolitionPerfect For: Ages 9-12, STEM and maker enthusiasts, environmental themes, community stories, robot building, resourcefulness and hope, neighborhood solidarity, protecting nature, learning broken things can be beautifulTags: #KidsStories #RobotBuilding #MakerStory #CommunityStory #EnvironmentalStory #JunkyardRobots #FablesAdventures #MiddleGradeStories #AudioStoriesForKids #STEMStoriesPart of Fables Adventures - Stories about building what matters and discovering that communities are stronger together!Content Advisory: Perfect for ages 9-12! Inspiring maker story with robots built from junkyard parts. Features an intense storm where Ember and robots work desperately to save the workshop (all succeed, workshop damaged but standing). Themes of corporate demolition threatening community spaces, but resolved through neighborhood solidarity and determination. Beautiful environmental messages about ravine restoration, foxes and butterflies returning. Strong STEM content about building, engineering, and problem-solving. Excellent for discussing community organizing, environmental protection, and how broken things can become beautiful!Duration: 17:50To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

At Beacon Point Academy—a converted lighthouse built on mineral-rich rock—twelve-year-old Finn Mitchell practices violin in the old storage rooms. They're good at music but better at self-doubt, sticking to safe, forgettable pieces. Until three weeks ago, when something impossible happened. While practicing alone, the lighthouse hummed in response. Through the window, clouds gathered like they were being summoned. Wind picked up in harmony with the violin. When the piece ended, everything stopped.Since then, Finn has experimented carefully: major keys bring clear skies, minor melodies darken weather, and a sequence they composed creates intentional wind. The lighthouse's perfect acoustics and geological hotspot beneath have turned Finn's violin into something that controls the weather. It terrifies them.Finn confides in best friend Jordan, who believes them immediately and becomes obsessed with understanding the patterns. Jordan documents everything, making Finn feel seen and understood. But then Finn discovers the truth: Jordan has been recording them with a hidden camera, studying them without permission. The betrayal shatters Finn's trust, and they spend days avoiding Jordan, making themselves invisible the way self-doubt taught them.Then a real storm hits. Fishing boats are trapped at sea, harbormaster organizing rescue. Jordan appears, tearful: "I believed in you when you didn't believe in yourself. I thought if I could prove what you could do, you'd finally see how extraordinary you are. But I did it the wrong way." Finn faces their deepest fear—not of hurting people, but of being someone with power, someone who matters.With Jordan there, Finn plays. The melody carries intention and hope. Rain slows. Wind shifts, guiding boats to harbor. Clouds break apart. Every boat reaches safety. The director reveals: the founders built a music academy on this geological hotspot because they believed music had real power—they were waiting for someone like Finn. Sitting on the rocks as the lighthouse beacon sweeps across them, Finn finally understands what it means to belong and to believe in themselves.An atmospheric story for ages 9-12 about self-doubt, discovering extraordinary gifts, and learning that you don't have to face your power alone.Themes: Self-doubt and building confidence, discovering extraordinary abilities, weather control through music, friendship betrayal and forgiveness, the weight of responsibility and power, believing in yourself, using gifts to help others, geology and acousticsPerfect For: Ages 9-12, stories about self-worth, music and science combining, weather manipulation, lighthouse settings, best friend dynamics, discovering abilities, LGBTQ+ representation (non-binary protagonist), emotional depthTags: #KidsStories #MusicMagic #WeatherControl #SelfDoubtStory #LighthouseStory #FriendshipAndBetrayal #FablesAdventures #MiddleGradeStories #AudioStoriesForKidsPart of Fables Adventures - Stories about discovering your power and learning to believe in yourself!Content Advisory: Perfect for ages 9-12! Atmospheric story with emotional depth about self-doubt and discovering confidence. Features weather control through music/geology, best friend betrayal (hidden camera recording), and a real storm with fishing boats in danger (all boats rescued safely). Explores complex feelings: fear of one's own power, broken trust, forgiveness. Non-binary protagonist using they/them pronouns. No violence or scary content, but meaningful emotional weight about believing in yourself and accepting responsibility for gifts. Excellent for discussions about consent, trust, and self-worth!Duration: 15:28To read the full text of this story and many others like it, visit Fable's Adventures.✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS on the Apple App Store