The Summit Free Public Library is the perfect place to beat the heat this summer. There is still time for you to stop by the Ask Us desk, and sign up for the library’s 2025 Summer Reading Program, pick up a reading log, and Color Our World together. Even if you’re going on vacation for most of the summer, or your child is going to sleepaway camp, you are more than welcome to participate. If you and your children are reading while you’re away, bring your reading logs with you and track your progress as you go. Bring your reading log back to the Ask Us desk from now through August 30 to take home small prizes or free books, and enter to win Grand Prizes at the end of the summer.
If you’re stumped about what to read over the summer, take a look at the topics on the Summer Reading Bingo Boards for ideas. Our library staff has been busy putting together lists of suggested titles for you to choose. If your rising 5th grader at Brayton School is working on their summer genre project, we have linked the titles that we own from the list provided to you at the end of the school year. We have several copies of the required summer reading titles for rising 6th-8th grade at Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School, as well as Honors and AP requirements for Social Studies and English Classes. All of the 2025 Summer Reading requirements are located on display on the Mezzanine to the left of the stairs. If your child will attend Summit High School in autumn but has not yet selected their summer reading books for their English Classes, the library is the perfect place for them to find a book that “will become a part of their reading identity”. Ask the librarians at either the Information Desk or the Ask Us Desk for suggestions of titles, or you can visit our Kids Booklists and Teen Booklists page for ideas.
— Ann-Marie M. Aymer, Head of Youth Services