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Family-Friendly Audiobooks for Road Trips

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This blog article was originally posted on my first blog In Our Pond.  I started out trying to put all my travel content on my homeschooling blog, but it grew to be too big.  So, I'm moving all the road trip stuff over here!  It'll probably take me a while to move all the posts, but I'll also be posting new content on here as well.  In Our Pond will now be exclusively for homeschooling and parenting content, while this blog (Party Through the USA) is for all the family travel posts.  Check them both out!




Disclaimer- I have not listened to every one of these audiobooks.  I read the books (mainly as a child), but I feel pretty confident that these books are still family-friendly today. 

{Good For Everyone}

Anne of Green Gables (my very favorite book from childhood)

Mouse and the Motorcycle (and other books by Beverly Cleary)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Indian in the Cupboard

Alice in Wonderland

Mr. Poppers Penguins

Mary Poppins






{For Older Audiences}

The Hobbit

Jurassic Park

The Help (I love the 4 different voices in the reading)

The Poisonwood Bible (would also be interesting because of the 5 women narrators)

And, of course, classics like Pride and Prejudice, The Three Musketeers, Les Miserables, etc.
If you're buying with Audible (an Amazon company), pay attention to the price of the books and only use your credits if you don't want to pay the cover price for a book.  For example, Anne of Green Gables could use up one of your audible credits OR you could just pay $0.95 and save your credit for the pricier books (like the Hobbit which is almost $18)  Just a tip to help you stretch your "vacation dollars.






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