A wonderful parent just asked for my recommendations for a family read this summer for a road-trip. I was so honored that they asked my opinion. I am a complete podcast junkie and have also started to get into audiobooks. Here are some of my recommendations:
Podcasts for the Family Road Trip:
- TED Talks for Kids
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
- Wow in the World
- Eleanor Amplified
- The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian
- Tumble
Podcasts for the Teens and Adults
- Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell
- Slow Burn (a deep dive into Watergate)
- Pantsuit Politics (left and right, lots of nuance)
- Levar Burton Reads (Reading Rainbow for Grown Ups and Almost Grown Ups)
- Hidden Brain (frequently interesting for kids, too.)
- Aspen Ideas to Go
- Caliphate from NYTimes
- Lexicon Valley (If you love words and their power, this one is for you.)
- 1-3-20 By Daniel Pink (One interviewee, three questions, twenty minutes.)
Great Family Reads (these are in book form, but I bet there might be audiobooks, too.)
- Mustaches for Maddie
- Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk (Also, Wolf Hollow)
- Funny in Farsi (tweens and up)
- Finding Audrey (tweens and up)
- Any book written by Watt Key
- The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Also, The War I Finally Won)
Audiobooks for Adults
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Forged in Crisis by Nancy Koehn (if you have LONG car rides, this one is for you. It profiles five historical leaders but it has about 20 chapters/leader.)
- In Conclusion, Don’t Worry About it by Lauren Graham (it only takes 20 minutes!)
- Tom Sawyer narrated by Nick Offerman (!)
- The Book of Joy by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Bishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams
What would you recommend to your readers/listeners?
Teach2Connect 
These are awesome! I have started listening to more podcasts when I walk the dog and on my commute. I’ll have to check some of these out!!!