2025 Summer Reading Program
June 7th – August 30th, 2025
To register, click the links below:
Children & Teens || Adults
The Summit Free Public Library invites the entire community to take part in this year’s Summer Reading Program, which kicks off on June 7th and continues through August 30th.
Open to children, teens, and adults alike, the Summer Reading Program offers something for everyone. Readers will be entered into prize drawings that include gift cards to local businesses and restaurants, tickets to the Crayola Factory, and more. Registration is welcome throughout the summer.
The 2025 theme, Color Our World, encourages readers to explore the transformative power of art and creativity. This year’s program celebrates the many ways artistic expression can make an impact on our lives and spark our imaginations.
The Library has also planned dozens of art-inspired events and activities to complement this year’s theme, such as arts and crafts classes for all ages, themed storytimes, and other special events designed to inform, enrich, and inspire.
For Children and Teens, Ages 6 months thru rising 12th graders
Are you ready for a reading adventure?
Visit this google form to sign up for the 2025 Summer Reading Program beginning on Saturday, June 7, and visit the Ask Us Desk to receive a passport game board.
Ages 6 months through Kindergarten: Rules
All summer reading participants will receive a bingo board. Read five of the types of books below, in a row, to get a BINGO. Each BINGO row can be either across, down or diagonally. You will get a bonus book or prize for every bingo that you earn.
On the reverse of your Bingo Board is a Smart Start Activity Crayon Box. For every Smart Start Activity that you complete, color in the crayon on your sheet, and bring your sheet to the Ask Us Desk for a small prize.
Smart Start Activities for preschoolers include the following:
- Read a wordless book
- Tell someone a story
- Read signs and words aloud
- Read a bedtime story
- Make a sensory bag
- Visit the Zoo
- Read a book of nursery rhymes
- Read a book about a favorite activity
- Draw a picture
Read an alphabet or counting book
- Attend a storytime
- Sing a song together
- Point to the words on the page while reading
- Create an ABC Book
- Learn & do a fingerplay (Itsy bitsy spider)
- Borrow books from the library
Rising 1-12th Grade: Rules
All summer reading participants will receive a bingo board. Read five of the types of books below, in a row, to get a BINGO. Each BINGO row can be either across, down or diagonally. You will get a bonus book or prize for every bingo that you earn
On the reverse of your sheet, you can track the number of minutes that you read during the day. For every week, cross one of the objects for each day you read for 30 minutes, or someone reads to you for 15 minutes or more. After you’ve read for four days during the week, bring your reading log to the library to receive a small grab bag prize, and enter to win one of grand prizes at the end of the summer.
2025 Summer Reading Program for Adults
Welcome to our colorful summer reading program! Adults 18+ are welcome to join. You do not have to be a Summit cardholder to participate. Click here to register.
- Register online or at the Adult Information Desk or the Children’s Ask Us Desk.
- Pick up a Bingo Board at either help desk.
- You get a Bingo when you have completed 5 (five) squares in a row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal).
- After you get a Bingo, bring your Board to the Information Desk for the librarian to enter your name in the prize drawing.
- Boards will not be accepted after 5:00 PM on Saturday, August 30.
- Prizes will be drawn after Labor Day. Only one prize per person.