PLANT A SEED, READ with us this summer at Wheaton Public Library! All Adult SRC participants can grab a free T-shirt at the 2nd Floor Adult Services Desk, while supplies last!

NEW this year - earn 500 points and pick up a prize at the 2nd Floor Adult Services Desk! Prizes include a choice of one WPL swag item. Complete the challenge and earn 1,000 points for a coupon for a free book at the Friends Book Sale! Pick up your coupon at the 2nd Floor Adult Services Desk. 

Each week, two lucky SRC participants will be randomly chosen to win a $20 Downtown Wheaton gift card or free vouchers from our Seedling sponsors! Each book completed during SRC, including audiobooks and eBooks, is worth 150 points. Complete missions to earn extra points!

All participants who earn 1,000 points and complete the challenge will be entered to win a Downtown Wheaton gift card! Two runners up will be randomly selected to win $50 and our grand prize winner will be randomly selected to win $100. Please email us at ce@wheatonlibrary.org with any questions about the Summer Reading Challenge. Happy reading! 

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.

Read and participate in programs and activities to earn prizes. ALL reading counts (ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, fanfiction, graphic novels, comics, etc.)!

Each hour read = 25 points
Mission Completed = 25 -100 points

Prizes:

    Level 1 (500 points) = Choose a coupon or prize from our prize box

    Level2 (1,000 points) = Choose a coupon or a prize box pick, and get a coupon for a free book from Friends of the Library Book Sale

    Every hour you log enters you into our weekly drawings!

    Earn 1000 points and get entered into our grand prize drawing!

Read 100 books before high school and earn prizes!

Prizes are awarded for every 25 books you read.

Read 100 books before graduating from high school and earn prizes!

Prizes are awarded for every 25 books you read.