audiobook suggestion for 12-yo boy

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<p>S2 is going to be taking a long flight, and I’d like to download a book or two onto his Ipod. Any suggestions? He loves the old Dr. Dolittle books, the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale, anything on golf.</p>

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<p>Raptor Red
My son and I listened to this in the car and I was mesmerized (so was he).</p>

<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Raptor Red (Audible Audio Edition): Robert T. Bakker, Megan Gallagher: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Raptor-Red/dp/B003FX6IAK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1304272793&sr=8-2]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Raptor-Red/dp/B003FX6IAK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1304272793&sr=8-2)</p>

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<p>Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, and any of the sequels.
Is he interested in Tolkein? The Hobbit.</p>

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<p>Eragon (Paolini),
CS Lewis’ Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe series,
Artemis Fowler series (Colfer),
The Hobbit (Tolkien)
James Patterson’s Maximum Ride series
Ender’s Game series (Card)</p>

<p>My family has read books aloud on all our car trips since my kids were very little. We read all the Harry Potter books out loud (including one 21 hour marathon for the last book). My S is now 17 and on our last car trip we were reading King Lear…</p>

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<p>The Harry Potter audiobooks are excellent.</p>

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<p>The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman</p>

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<p>We once listened to Rifles for Watie on a very long car trip. Great book (won the Newbery) about the Civil War.</p>

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<p>I second the Harry Potter books. Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games, The Red Pyramid and The Maze Runner have all been favorites in this household.</p>

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<p>i second (or third) the harry potter series. As well as lord of the rings.</p>

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<p>Definitely Harry Potter! The narrator, Jim Dale, is spectacular. My kids listen over and over, even though they enjoy repeatedly reading the books as well. Jim Dale really adds a lot to the experience.</p>

<p>Another favorite is “The Mysterious Benedict Society.” Good stuff.</p>

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<p>Thank you all for the great suggestions! I do know about the wonderful Harry Potter audiobooks, where the narrator does all the voices. S1 loved Harry Potter, he read all the books multiple times, and we listened to a couple of them together on long trips. But S2 does not like Harry Potter - could not get into the books and didn’t like the audio version, either, when I tried one on a long car trip.</p>

<p>Lots of possibilities here…</p>

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<p>The Bartemaeus Trilogy by Jonathon Stroud-EXCELLENT!
Halo Series (for Xbox fans of the video game Halo)
The Rangers Apprentice Series by John Flanagan
The Kane Chronicles (newer series by author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians) by Rick Riordan
The Ancestor Series by Jeff Stone
The Roman Briton Trilogy by Rosemary Sutcliffe (son LOVED Eagle of the 9th, but got distracted with the new Halo books he got for Easter)</p>

<p>edit: I missed the audio book part of the request…oops. Maybe some of these come on audiobook. sorry :(</p>

<p>edit #2: success at Amazon for all but The Ancestor Series. :-)</p>

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<p>There are a series of mystery books by Bruce Alexander, with audio versions, about a blind 18th-century magistrate Sir John Fielding. The books are written as a first person accounting by the protagonist, a teenage/young adult boy. I think a 12y/o boy would enjoy these books and the audio versions are well done.</p>

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<p>All the choices listed so far are terrific. I have a couple more to add to the list.</p>

<p>Coraline (a little creepy but my son and I enjoyed) by Gaiman. We also loved The Graveyard Book and Neverwhere by Gaiman.</p>

<p>My son loved the Icemark series by Stuart Hill.</p>

<p>He also enjoyed the Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney</p>

<p>The Thief is the first in the Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner (personally think it is the best of the series).</p>

<p>Incarceron by Catherine Fisher</p>

<p>Stoneheart trilogy by Charlie Fletcher</p>

<p>I am Number Four by Lore</p>

<p>Chaos Walking series by Ness</p>

<p>The Compound by S.A. Bodeen (reallly good on CD)</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>“Hatchet” (Gary Paulsen). This series is a middle school classic, but I loved it too. Hmm… .beware, there is a plane crash involved (kid survives), so maybe not so cool. But good story when he gets back!</p>

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<p>I am happy to have all the suggestions, even if some are not available in audio form. S2 is not a reader, unlike S1, who has spent half his life with his nose in a book. S2 reads well, he just prefers to do other things. But if I manage to find a series that he likes (like Dr. Dolittle and the Pendragon books), he will read, read, read until he finishes the series.</p>

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<p>Thunder Cave series by Roland Smith

It is available on Audible & your library may have it on tape.</p>