Youth Summer Reading 2026
Plant a Seed, Read
May 28-July 31, 2026
The Youth Summer Reading Challenge is for birth-5th grade. Earn 25 points for each day you read.
You can read on your own or be read to. You can read picture books, leveled readers, chapter books, graphic novels, nonfiction, magazines, ebooks, and more. You can also listen to audiobooks or eaudiobooks.
Those that read 20 days in June and earn 500 points can come in and choose a prize and a free book.
Those that read 20 days in July and earn an additional 500 points can come in and choose a prize and a free book.
Please note that you need to log 500 points in June (including May 28-31) for the first level and 500 points in July for the second level. If you are joining the Reading Challenge later, you can go back in and add past days read beginning on May 28.
Everyone that completes the Summer Reading Challenge and earns 1,000 points will be entered into our Grand Prize Drawing.
Prizes will be available to pick up beginning June 16.