A Real-Life Road Trip Adventure

Great Alabama Road Trip

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Great Alabama Road Trip. An Alabama Road Trip Book for Kids

Most families know Alabama for football. Ethan and Oliver found rockets, caves, canyons, and a whole lot of history.

In this 13-day road trip adventure, two brothers from a military family in San Diego travel Alabama from top to bottom. A Renaissance faire in Florence, real rockets in Huntsville, caves and canyons up north, a horseback ride under the stars near Birmingham, the Selma to Montgomery trail, and a battleship goodbye on Mobile Bay. Along the way they learn that the best part of a road trip isn’t checking places off. It’s slowing down long enough to notice what each place has to say.

Great Alabama Road Trip is part of the Ethan and Oliver Adventures series. Written for ages 8–12 for independent readers, and an easy family read-aloud for younger kids. Perfect for homeschooling families, road trip readers, and anyone raising kids who ask good questions.

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Are you looking for a road trip that actually means something?

Most family vacations are fun to take and easy to forget.

This one is different.

This Alabama road trip book for kids follows Ethan and Oliver, two brothers from a military family in San Diego, through 13 days of real Alabama stops that most families drive right past. Rocket boosters in Huntsville. Caves and canyons in the north. Fossils and football in Tuscaloosa. Bridges and bravery in Selma and Montgomery. Gators and Gulf breezes down south. And at the very end of the road, a battleship waiting on Mobile Bay.

Every stop teaches something. Every evening the family sits down with notebooks and talks about what they saw, what they felt, and what God might be saying through it.

This is the Alabama most people never see.

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Sound Like Your Family?

  • If you want your family’s road trips to mean something beyond souvenir shops and theme parks, you need this book.
  • If your kids ask good questions and you want a story that rewards that curiosity, you need this book.
  • If you’re a homeschool parent looking for a chapter book that covers Alabama history, science, faith, and character all at once, you need this book.
  • If you believe the best conversations happen in the car, around a campfire, or on a dock at sunset, you need this book.
  • If you want your children to grow up knowing that faith belongs everywhere — not just Sunday mornings — you need this book.
  • If you’re planning an Alabama trip and want your family prepared to notice what most people drive past, you need this book.
  • If your kids are ages 8 to 12 and you’re looking for a read-aloud that keeps everyone engaged — including the adults — you need this book.
  • If you want a book that stays on the shelf because your child put their name in it and called it theirs, you need this book.
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This Alabama book for kids is for the family that pulls over at historical markers. For the kid who asks why before they ask what. For the parent who wants their children to remember the trip, not just the photos from it.

IT’S FOR THE FAMILY READY TO TRADE A REGULAR VACATION FOR AN ADVENTURE THAT ACTUALLY TEACHES SOMETHING.

Great Alabama Road Trip is part of the Ethan & Oliver Adventures series. Thirteen days. One state. Real places you can visit. Conversations that will follow your family home.

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GREAT ALABAMA ROAD TRIP

  • “What an amazing book!”

    What an amazing book! This is a clever way to engage children of all ages and to teach about journaling and making memories… I highly recommend this book and the series if they’re all as clever as this. I also like all the extras the PDF downloads and the certificates that your kids can receive if they complete the tasks. Well done!
    Kristin Frye-Gallaher
    Advance reader copy (ARC) review on Amazon

  • “I wish we would have had this growing up.”

    Very engaging and fun. This is a great supplemental learning aid for any student- homeschooled, private or public. I wish we would have had this growing up.
    Mike Eubanks
    Advance reader copy (ARC) review on Amazon

  • “Simple, fun projects for kids to do.”

    This was a fun read… Throughout the book several of the more well-known historical and cultural sites of Alabama are visited with simple, fun projects for kids to do while explaining the importance of each place.
    IT_guy
    Advance reader copy (ARC) review on Amazon

  • “It gave me a lot of ideas to make the trips more fun.”

    I found this to be a very cute book. As an uncle, I like to take my nieces and nephews on trips, and this book gave me a lot of ideas to make the trips more fun and add some whimsy to them… It was also awesome to have QR code missions to follow along with.
    Lucvsa
    Advance reader copy (ARC) review on Amazon

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Ethan and Oliver’s Coloring Through Alabama Book

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Ethan and Oliver Adventures Great Alabama Road Trip

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Ethan and Oliver’s Alabama Road Trip Activity Book

Hey There!

I’m Jenn

My path to writing children’s books wasn’t a straight one. It ran through 23 years of service in the United States Navy. Deployments, sea tours, and more time away from my family than I like to count.

When I came home for good, I made a decision. The time I had with my kids was going to mean something. We were going to slow down. We were going to notice things. We were going to go places and actually talk about what we saw.

The Ethan & Oliver Adventures series was born from those trips.

Great Alabama Road Trip is the trip that showed our family what slowing down and paying attention could look like, and the book that showed me what this series could be.

I homeschool my kids in San Diego. I write books that I hope give families permission to adventure with intention; to road trip with purpose, to ask hard questions, and to find God in the places most people drive right past.

That’s what Ethan & Oliver do. And if you’re reading this, I have a feeling that’s what your family does too.

Happy reading!
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