Take your kids on a literary adventure and reduce the “Summer Brain Drain” by keeping your kiddos reading this summer with one of several FREE & FUN Summer Reading Programs!
Barnes & Noble - “Imagination’s Destination”
- This summer reading program is for grades 1-6 and will run May 19th - September 7th
- Sign up at your local Barnes & Noble
- Kids read any 8 books and record them in the Reading Journal
- Bring the completed Reading Journal into Barnes & Noble
- For every 8 books read kids can select one free book from the store’s Summer Reading Program book list
Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge
- This summer reading program is for kids 0-13 and will run May 4th - September 4th
- Kids read, then go online (with parents permission) to log the minutes they’ve spent reading
- Kids can take weekly challenges and are rewarded with virtual prizes
- Kids can see how well their school is doing in the Summer Reading Challenge, prizes for most minutes read per school
Pizza Hut’s BOOK IT! Summer Reading Challenge
- An online interactive reading program for kids in grades K-6 and runs June 22nd-August 15th
- For young fans of the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series
- Kids share their daily reading minutes, download fun activities and chat with the Wimpy Kid gang
- Kids will have a chance to win awesome BOOK IT! prizes
Sylvan Learning’s Book Adventure Program
- This online reading program runs all year long and is for kids in grades K-8
- Register your kids online
- Kids read books then go online to take simple comprehension quizzes to earn points that can be traded in for prizes like books, magazine subscriptions, candy, tattoos, CD’s and games
Chuck E. Cheese Reading Rewards
- This online reading program runs all year long and is for kids
- Print out the downloadable reward calendar
- Fill out form for every day your child reads
- Kids earn 10 FREE tokens every time they read for two weeks in a row
Los Angeles County Library: (for Duarte, San Dimas, Charter Oak & West Covina Libraries)
- A summer reading program open to the entire family and runs June 1st-August 15th
- Sign up at your local county library
- Start reading and earn prizes
