Our Family loves Living Books and Particularly Audiobooks as they allow us to follow chapters as we travel in the car, in the bathtub and listening in the garden... es and even in the dark under the duvet :-)
Here are our choices for our combo year 6
20.000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pearls, sharks and giant squid, with wonders of biology and engineering that will thrust us from the Antarctic to Atlantis. Whether voyaging a yarn of the glorious unknown, a tale of the darkness that grips the heart of men, or a reinterpretation of Homer’s Odyssey, we’ll all enjoy the fantastic trip. Seasickness optional. (Summary by Marlo Dianne)
Librivox 20.000 Leagues under the Sea Audiobook
http://librivox.org/twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea-by-jules-verne/
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.
The book has been popular with young readers since its publication, and taken as a sequel to the comparatively innocuous The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It has also been the continued object of study by serious literary critics. Although the Southern society it satirized was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book immediately became controversial, and has remained so to this day. (Summary from Wikipedia)Librivox The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Audiobook
http://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-version-3/
The Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
http://librivox.org/the-swiss-family-robinson-by-johann-david-wyss/