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Make your car trip fly by!

Help keep the most restless car companions happy these holidays, with our selection of memorable and entertaining listening options, guaranteed to make your road trips fly by.

For those with children who have exhausted car games, turn up the volume on titles like James Patterson’s Katt vs. Dogg or Treehouse Tales by Andy Griffiths. For couples and groups, revamp the road trip with entertaining audiobooks such as The Party Crasher, Run, Rose, Run and Sasha Wasley’s A Caravan Like a Canary. Or learn something new and true from an exciting autobiography 

With something for everyone, explore our audiobooks. Grap a talking book from the library, or download & listen from ePlatform & BorrowBox!

 Treehouse Tales: Too Silly to be Told ... Until Now! by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
Thirteen short, funny, supremely silly, never-before-told stories from the world of the award-winning, sales-smashing, bestselling Treehouse series.

Naughtiest Girl In The School by Enid Blyton
Follow Elizabeth Allen as she arrives for her first year at boarding school. Elizabeth is spoilt and selfish and has made up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been! But soon she finds out that being bad isn't as simple as it seems ..

The world's worst teachers by David Walliams
Think your teachers are bad? Wait till you meet this lot. These ten tales of the world's most splendidly sinister teachers will have you running for the school gates. Dr Dread teaches science and is half man, half monster... Watch out for the ghastly Miss Seethe. She is ALWAYS furious - and she's on a detention rampage. And as for Pent, he's a teacher with a real difference. He is bone-shakingly terrified of... children!

Katt vs. Dogg by James Patterson
A Dogg family and a Katt family are spending their vacations at Western Frontier Park fighting with each other when a youngster from each family becomes lost in the dangerous forest.

Diary of an awesome friendly kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal  by Jeff Kinney
Rowley's best friend Greg Heffley has been chronicling his middle-school years in thirteen Diary of a Wimpy Kid journals . . . and counting. But it's finally time for readers to hear directly from Rowley in a journal of his own. In Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid, Rowley writes about his experiences and agrees to play the role of biographer for Greg along the way. (After all, one day Greg will be rich and famous, and everyone will want to know his life's story.) But Rowley is a poor choice for the job, and his "biography" of Greg is a hilarious mess. 

The Party Crasher by Sophie Kinsella
The Talbots are having one last party at their family home. But Effie hasn't been invited … 

Effie's still not over her parents splitting up a year ago. Her dad and his new girlfriend are posting their PDAs all over Instagram – and no one should have to deal with photos of their dad with the hashtags #viagraworks and #sexinyoursixties. Now they're selling the beloved family home and holding a 'house-cooling' party. When Effie receives only a last-minute 'anti-invitation', she decides to give it a miss.

Until she remembers her precious Russian dolls, safely tucked away up a chimney. She'll have to go back for them – but not as a guest. She'll just creep in, grab the dolls and make a swift exit. No one will know she was ever there.  Of course, nothing goes to plan. And as she secretly clambers around dusty attics, hides under tables and mournfully eyes up the dessert table, she discovers unexpected truths about her family – and even about herself.

Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson
From America's most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller - a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her - and destroy her.

A Caravan Like a Canary by Sasha Wasley
When Tara Button’s mother asks her to drive the bright yellow family caravan from one end of the state to the other, it’s her charming but unreliable brother, Zac, who convinces her it’s a good idea. Besides, the road trip might keep Zac out of trouble – and that’s always been a second job for Tara.

Tara doesn’t expect Zac’s enigmatic friend Danh to come along for the ride. Or the bikies that seem to be following them up the coast …

As they travel along the open road, memories of the Buttons’ last trip in the caravan engulf Tara, while a rediscovered love for the wild, glorious ocean chips away at her reserve. When forced to face her past, will Tara find the courage to let go and discover her dreams?

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