It's road trip season! As families embark on summer
vacations, we've got some audiobook suggestions the whole family can enjoy
together (including Mom and Dad). All of these audiobooks are available on CD
at the Library and some are available for download through our eBook services-
Overdrive and Hoopla. Click on the title to place a hold on the CD audiobook
version.
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a
young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School
for Wizards and Witches. Recommended ages 8+.
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who
owed them money, an innkeeper and her son find a treasure map that leads to a
pirate fortune as well as great danger. Recommended ages 10+.
Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit, is a peaceful sort who lives in a
cozy hole in the Shire, a place where adventures are uncommon--and rather
unwanted. So when the wizard Gandalf whisks him away on a treasure-hunting
expedition with a troop of rowdy dwarves, he is not entirely thrilled.
Recommended ages 9+.
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme
facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being
home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan,
which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles
to be seen as just another student. Recommended age 11+.
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death
relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and
story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are
hiding, as well as their neighbors. Recommended ages 12+.
Two brothers and two sisters find their way through the back
of a magic wardrobe into the land of Narnia. They befriend and assist Aslan,
the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch who had cursed the land with
eternal winter. Recommended ages 8+.
After the sudden death of their parents, the three
Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out
that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use
any means necessary to get their fortune. Recommended ages 9+.
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent
her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of
gruesome experiments in the Far North. Recommended ages 10+.
Percy Jackson just found out the truth about where we came
from after his mom sends him to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on
Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of
the Sea. Soon, a mystery unfolds and together with his friends -- one a satyr
and the other the demigod daughter of Athena -- Percy sets out on a quest
across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld and prevent a
catastrophic war between the gods. Recommended ages 9+.
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a
galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford
Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an
out-of-work actor.
Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed, ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod’s girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he’s bought over the years. Recommended ages 12+.
Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed, ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod’s girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he’s bought over the years. Recommended ages 12+.
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. Recommended ages 9+.
In this classic children's tale by acclaimed author Roald
Dahl, the Big Friendly Giant, a very different kind of giant, finds a friend in
a small human girl named Sophie. Listeners will delight in the fun language
woven throughout the narrative. Recommended ages 6+.
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum
cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the
squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after
being revived. Recommended ages 8+.
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter
who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest,
Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his
past. Recommended ages 10+.
