5 Fantasy Audiobooks To Turn Your Family Road Trip Into An Epic Adventure

Sam Baron’s life has just turned upside down. His substitute teacher claims to have turned his old teacher into a lizard, a dwarf named Rego appears and claims Sam is from a magical world called Orkney and then his friends are taken prisoner! Sam forges ahead into the land of Orkney only to find an ancient curse has turned the sun a toxic red. With only a young witch to guide him, Sam must choose between saving his friends or stopping the red sun from destroying the land he’s from. The audio version of Alane Adams’ The Red Sun is voiced by Disney star Karan Brar and will take listeners on the adventure of a lifetime.

Every year Blue accompanies her clairvoyant mother to watch the soon-to-be-dead walk past. Blue has never seen them--until this year when a boy emerges and speaks to her. Gansey is a rich student at Aglionby, a private school. Blue has never trusted a Raven Boy, the nickname for the boys who attend that school, but she can’t help but feel drawn to him. Gansey is on a quest that involves three other Raven Boys and Blue joins them. She was once warned that she would be the cause of her true love’s death and as she gets deeper into the dark world of the Raven Boys, she can’t help but wonder if that warning might come true.

After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo gets cast out of Olympus. Disoriented, he finds himself in New York City as a teenage boy. Now powerless, he must learn to navigate life in the modern world and must find a way to earn Zeus’s trust back. But Apollo has enemies in the form of gods, monsters and mortals and he soon finds himself seeking help from demigods at a place known as Camp Half-Blood.

In the world of Erdas each child must discover if they have the rare talent of summoning a spirit animal. Conor, Abeke, Meilin and Rollan are rare even among those who can, because they have summoned legendary animals, ones that were reborn to protect their world. But there’s a dark force emerging and if the young heroes can’t stop it, it will destroy the spirit animals and then the world.

The fifth book in Glee star Chris Colfer’s series The Land of Stories, twins Connor and Alex find themselves in a fight against their enemy the Masked Man. But Connor learns that the only place to fight him is in his own short stories. The twins and their friends enter the lands from Connor’s imagination in hopes to restore peace in the fairytale world, which is also a world where anything can happen.