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Road Trip Ready - audiobooks the whole family will love

Ready for a long summer of 'ARE WE THERE YET?' Try some audiobooks instead! They're a great way to keep the whole family engaged throughout the trip and provide a great opportunity for some good discussion! Here's a list of both adult and kids books that are compelling enough for adults and kids alike!

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  • Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2020New York : PRH Canada Young Readers, 2020.
  • Bell is just like any other kid. He loves cats, eats all kinds of cake, and is curious about everything. Oh, and he lives on another planet! Living on Mars comes with a ton of rules. Like don't go outside without a buddy. Always keep a glow stick in…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2021New York : Random House, [2021]
  • Sixth grader Alec can't put a good book down. So when Principal Vance lays down the law-pay attention in class, or else -Alec takes action. He can't lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he intends to be the only member of. After…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2017New York : Random House, [2017]
  • Dani and Eric have been best friends since Dani moved next door in second grade--until one summer when everything changes.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023New York : Listening Library, 2023.
  • After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2021New York City : Scholastic Inc., 2021.
  • If Carter hadn't been checking his phone, he might have seen his brother coming down the ski slopes in his direction. And if Carter had seen his brother in time and avoided the crash, he might not have two broken legs right now. Oops. Now Carter is…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025Prince Frederick : Recorded Books, 2025.
  • When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.
    Preloaded Audiobook, 2022Solon, Ohio : Playaway Digital Audio, [2022] — PLAY J FIC GEM
  • Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2012New York : Little, Brown, 2012.
  • Twelve-year-old Sarah Greene wants nothing more from her seventh-grade year than to beat the hardest escape room left in her town with her best friends, West, and Hannah. But when a foreclosure notice shows up on Sarah's front door, everything…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2024[Old Saybrook] : Tantor Audio, 2024.
  • The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2014New York : Books on Tape, 2014.
  • Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a…
    Audiobook CD, 2006London : Hodder Children's Books, p2006. — CDBOOK J FIC COW
  • Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during World War II, this breathtaking tale of suspense, compassion, and courage stars an extraordinary young heroine readers will never forget.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2024[S.I.] : Allida, 2024.
  • Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2014New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2014]
  • A Banksy-style protest against cameras in classrooms brings a group of middle-grade students together. ominica's private school is covered in cameras, and someone is hacking into them and posting embarrassing moments for the whole school to see.…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2020New York : PRH Canada Young Readers, 2020.
  • A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
    Downloadable Audiobook, New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Pub.
  • The Feather Thief

    Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century.

    Johnson, Kirk Wallace
    On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2018New York : Penguin Audio, 2018.
  • Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2021[Old Saybrook] : Tantor Audio, 2021.
  • When her chance to finally be a part of the summer musical program at the community theatre comes up, Maya, recently diagnosed with autism, is convinced she will get the lead. However, things don't turn out exactly the way Maya's planned.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2024Toronto : Annick Press, 2024.
  • Matilda applies her previously untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
    Audiobook CD, 2013New York : Penguin Audio, p2013. — CDBOOK J FIC DAH
  • An Immense World

    How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

    Yong, Ed,
    The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. In An Immense World , Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses to encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2022New York : Random House, 2022.