📕Take your kids on a literary adventure and keep your kids reading this summer with one of several FREE & FUN Summer Reading Programs! There are prizes like books, pizza, and more! 📖
Barnes and Noble
Students in grades 1-6 can earn a free book by reading this summer. Read eight books, record them in your summer reading journal and bring your completed journal to your local Barnes and Noble store between 7/1/21-8/31/21 to receive your free book!
Participation is a fun and easy way for kids to earn free books. They simply read a designated number of books – library books, books borrowed from friends or books bought at Barnes & Noble – write about their favorite part in our Reading Journal, and bring a completed Reading Journal to a Barnes & Noble bookstore. Children then choose their free book from the books listed on the Reading Journal and collect their free book from a store near them.
Download Summer Reading Journal
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Pizza Hut Camp Book-It Program
Parents, join us for Camp BOOK IT! and keep rewarding your kids all summer long. Track and reward your kids' reading for June, July and August in our digital dashboard. When they meet their monthly reading goal, they'll receive a free one-topping Personal Pan Pizza® from Pizza Hut! We'll also share fun activities and book recommendations each week to keep the fun going throughout the summer! Enroll today!
LA County Library Summer Reading Challenge
June 7, 2021 - August 7, 2021
Collect points for reading and completing fun, learning-based activities. Register and track your progress online or on the Beanstack Tracker App, or download and print a gameboard.
Once you earn 1,000 points, you have finished the Summer Reading Challenge!
- 20 minutes of reading = 20 points
- Completing an activity = 100 points
Return your completed game board or complete your Beanstack log in order to be entered to win additional prizes. Pick up your completion prize at any open library location. An email address or phone number is required to enter the prize drawings so that winners can be contacted.
Covina Library
June 29 - August
Everyone is invited to participate in the Summer Reading program! Registration is available in person at the Covina Public Library. Log your reading hours and pick up weekly prizes and be entered to win a grand prize at the end of summer! Weekly prize pick ups will begin June 29th!
Scholastic Summer Reading
April 26, 2021- September 3, 2021
From Monday, April 26 to Friday, September 3, kids can participating in the Scholastic Summer Reading Porgram where they will be encouraged to read, celebrate their achievements and help increase access to books for their peers. By creating an account on Home Base, kids can join a community of readers and will be able to read books and stories; attend weekly author events; interact with their favorite characters; play book-based games and activities; join dance parties; and more!
Kids will be able to track their summer reading by maintaining a Reading Streak in Home Base. The longer a child extends their reading streak, the more digital experiences they earn! Kids can read any book of their choice and download and print a report of their reading progress at any time.
By keeping reading streaks in Home Base, kids will unlock a donation of 100,000 books from Scholastic to Save the Children for kids in rural America with limited or no access to books.
San Bernardino County Library Excavate Something Big Summer Reading Program
June 7, 2021- July 31, 2021
Sign up for our Summer Reading Program: Excavate Something Big, check out books from the Library and read! Log your progress online on Beanstack, and take a trip to the Library to pick up your reward. Don’t forget to visit us weekly to pick up your program kits to enjoy at home. Kits are distributed weekly, beginning each Monday and are available on a first come, first serve basis.
Participating in this year’s summer program is as easy as 1, 2, 3!
- Register on Beanstack using your account or sign up for a new one, and decide if you will be logging books, pages, or minutes read.
- Check out books from the Library and READ! Log your progress online, on Beanstack, by entering the book title, number of pages or minutes read, depending on what you chose.
- Earn a reward badge each week by reading at least the weekly minimum and logging the books, pages or minutes read. Come into the library to collect your rewards throughout the summer.
NEW THIS YEAR: Collect a button for each digital badge you earn on Beanstack.
Don’t stop there! Take the County Library Challenge and earn tickets for a grand prize opportunity drawing. How do you do this? It’s easy!
- Children and Teens: Earn a ticket and receive a mystery reward when you reach our countywide goal.
- Children’s Challenge: Log 45 books, 450 pages or 6 hours of reading.
- Teen Challenge: Log 8 books, 800 pages or 8 hours of reading.
- Each branch will have an in-branch drawing for those who meet the challenge, in addition to the countywide grand prize drawings.
CHILDREN’S PROGRAM:
Once you make a selection, you will stick with it throughout the summer program. The options are:
- Books: Read at least 5 books per week. Log the titles in Beanstack to earn reward badges.
- Pages: Read at least 50 pages per week. Log your books and pages read on Beanstack to earn reward badges.
- Minutes: Read for at least 30 minutes per week. Log your titles and minutes read in Beanstack to earn reward badges.
TEEN PROGRAM:
Once you make a selection, you will stick with it throughout the summer program. The options are:
- Books: Read at least 1 book per week. Log the titles in Beanstack to earn reward badges.
- Pages: Read at least 100 pages per week. Log your books and pages read on Beanstack to earn reward badges.
- Minutes: Read for at least 1 hour per week. Log your titles and hours read in Beanstack to earn reward badges.
ADULT PROGRAM:
Register for our Summer Reading Program and log your reading throughout the summer on Beanstack to earn a reward badge each week. Receive a free bag just for signing up!
- Receive a weekly incentive for reading at least 1 book per week. Limit one reward per participant per week.
Exceeding the minimum amount of books, pages and minutes will greatly benefit your child and teenager’s reading skills. Limit of one reward per participant per week. Weeks are tracked Monday through Sunday and each week you can earn a new reward. Don’t forget to log your reading each week to earn each badge.
The last day to pick up reading incentives is Saturday, July 31.
DIGITAL PROGRAMS:
This year, we are doing digital programs on our Facebook page (SBCountyLibrary).
- Starting each Monday, you can visit the library to pick up your program kit for that week (while supplies last).
- If the kits run out, the instructions, videos and templates are posted below. These programs will change each week.
Then follow along on Facebook to make your craft with us.
- On Monday's and Wednesday's, e have special performers. Watch on Facebook Live or see them live at the Glen Helen Regional Park.
San Bernardino County Library Summer Reading Program Info
Orange County Library Summer Reading Challenge
Reading Colors Your World: June 12 - July 31
Celebrate 50 days of reading this summer! Sign up for your virtual log at ocpl.beanstack.org or download the free Beanstack app.
You can set up one account and add all the readers in your family!
Make reading a habit and log each day you spend some time reading. Log 20 or more days during the program and you’ll be entered into an opportunity drawing for a gift card courtesy of the Friends of the Libraries. Complete activities to gain virtual badges.
Enjoy our digital services or visit your local branch for curbside pickup or Grab & Go to check out and collect special summer giveaways.
Follow OC Public Libraries on Facebook and Instagram for crafts, cooking, and other fun projects to complete at home, and join us on Zoom for Virtual Events.
Book Adventure
Book Adventure is an interactive reading assessment, management, and rewards program. Book Adventure is much more than just our 17,000+ book quizzes! Since not all students learn the same, Book Adventure strives to be inclusive of the different student learning styles and offers a variety of alternative assessment options for those students who might not be great test-takers. Book Adventure is a fun effective online program that encourages, assesses, and rewards independent reading!
Chuck E. Cheese Reading Rewards
This online reading program runs all year long and is for kids. Fill out the form for every day your child reads. Kids earn 10 FREE play points every time they read for two weeks in a row.
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