Audiobook recommendations for family roadtrip with tween boy

[Anonymous]

Books we've recently enjoyed together:

Hatchet
The River
Ender's Game
The Giver
Tuck Everlasting
Where the Red Fern Grows
Boys in the Boat
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Holes
White Fang
Call of the Wild

Any recommendations for upcoming road trips?

[Anonymous]

Harry Potter? The audiobooks are supposed to be amazing

[Anonymous]

Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan. there is a musical element to the story, which makes the audiobook fantastic to listen to.

[Anonymous]

Harry Potter
Wild Robot

[Anonymous]

Percy jackson? My boy loved them as a tween and still loves them as a teen. No idea how good the audio books are though.

Just because of availability at the library we ended up listening ot some random audiobooks - the Jungle book was suprisingly good. Also 101 dalmations. And The wind in the WIllows.

We also listened to a Terry Prachett audio book called Only you can save mankind. It's a little weird, and there were some things in it that my son did'nt like (there was a car accident that freaked him out), but it was clever.

Which reminds me, BBC sounds has some fun radio programs, or there are podcasts for this age group too that we used to listen to.

Also, even if you've read Harry potter thoroughly, I LOVED the time we spent listening to Jim Dale's Harry potter books. SO SO Good. (and then I would lsiten to Bingemode Harry potter when i Was commuting without the kids, to get a hilarious more adult, but also very nuanced analysis of them).

[Anonymous]

I don’t know about audiobooks specifically, but based just on the books you might try:

How to Eat Fried Worms
Call It Courage
The Westing Game
Hidden Talents by David Lubar
A Wrinkle in Time
Interworld by Neil Gaiman
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (and subsequent Narnia books)

[Anonymous]

Golden Compass has a great audiobook

[Anonymous]

My 10 year old loves listening to the Skyward series by Brandon Sanderson.

[Anonymous]

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Terrific for that age.

[Anonymous]

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles , Judith Ivey is the narrator and dies a great job
Dragon rider by -Cornelia Funke, Brenden Fraser does a great job as the narrator

[Anonymous]

Carl Deuker’s books if he’s into sports.

[Anonymous]

Diary of a wimpy kid
And the many sequels to Diary of a wimpy kid.

[Anonymous]

Agree with dragonrider rec - B Fraser is phenomenal
Chronicles of Narnia are fabulous
Boy, autobiography of Roald Dahl, is terrific - as soon as it ended my kids wanted to listen again
Kate Winslet reading Matilda is our family favorite.

[Anonymous]

Maybe some lighthearted nonfiction, especially if it’s about travel or the place(s) you’re headed? Years ago I listened to an audiobook of Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods” on a road trip, and I remember it as being kid-friendly. Trevor Noah’s autobiography would keep a kid’s attention, and I think that one may have been kid-friendly too.

[Anonymous]

The Spy School series is good. My boys also really liked the Penderwicks, which was one of the more enjoyable listens for us as adults.