Are you gearing up to visit family or friends this winter break? Or heading north to hit the slopes? Whatever your plans, if you have a long drive in your future you know how hard it can be to fill the silence of your car. The news can be, well, too real, and it's hard to find a radio station that everyone can agree on. Enter audiobooks! Specifically, audiobooks for kids and kids-at-heart.
This list of audiobooks in various formats like CD, Playaway, and e-audiobooks from Libby/Overidrive, has something for everyone. There's Matilda and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler for the parents needing to introduce their kids to their childhood favorites. Or try a new classic like Bud, Not Buddy. Or even a little known true story like that of the Port Chicago 50. Keep the arguing over the AUX cord to a minium and make the miles fly by with these picks!
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Matilda [CD audiobook]
by Roald Dahl Matilda, a brilliant, sensitive little girl, uses her talents and ingenuity to seek revenge on her crooked father, lazy mother, and the terrifying Miss Trunchbull, her wicked headmistress, and save her beloved teacher, Miss Honey. Book available. |
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler [CD audiobook]
by E. L. Konigsburg Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself. |
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The girl who circumnavigated Fairyland in a ship of her own making [Playaway]
by Catherynne M. Valente Twelve-year-old September's ordinary life in Omaha turns to adventure when a Green Wind takes her to Fairyland to retrieve a talisman the new and fickle Marquess wants from the enchanted woods |
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The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights [sund recording]
by Steve Sheinkin The Newbery Award-winning and National Book Award finalist author of Bomb presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion. |
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A wrinkle in time [CD audiobook]
by Madeleine L'Engle Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government, in a re-release of the classic story. Read by the author. |
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Bud, Not Buddy [CD audiobook]
by Christopher Paul Curtis Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. |
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Gregor the Overlander [e-audiobook]
by Suzanne Collins When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy |
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Brown girl dreaming [e-audiobook]
by Jacqueline Woodson In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South |