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Here’s how to participate: Kids & Teens

    1. Sign up at the Children’s Desk–you’ll receive a Summer Reading log.
    2. Color in a square on your log every time you read or are read to for 20 minutes or do one of the activities on the back of the log.
    3. Once you’ve colored in all of the squares, come back to the Children’s Desk to collect your prize: a free book to keep! You’ll also earn an entry into our raffle to win a $50 gift card to High Five Books, a Kindle Paperwhite e-reader, or a Kindle Fire HD 8 tablet!

Here’s how to participate: Adults

    1. Pick up a Summer Reading log at the Reference Desk (no sign-up necessary).
    2. Track Your Reading: Color in a square on your log every time you read or are read to for 20 minutes. Once you’ve colored in all of the squares, come back to the Reference Desk to collect your prize: a free book to keep! You’ll also earn raffle entries at the midway point (five hours) and end (ten hours).
    3. Complete a Summer Bingo: Cross out each activity you complete. Get a bingo (four in a row, vertical, horizontal, or diagonal) to earn a raffle entry, and a blackout (all 16 squares) for an additional entry.
    4. Complete either or both activities to earn up to four raffle entries. Raffle tickets and prize entry will be available at the Reference Desk starting July 1. (Please note: voracious readers are welcome to complete an additional tracker for a second prize book, but raffle entries are limited to one tracker per person.)

Other fun Summer Reading resources:

Booklists

Looking for something to read? Check out these books the Children’s & YA staff have selected based on this year’s theme!

Click on any of the booklists below to see the books in our catalog. Then you can log in to your account to place them on hold.

Ages 0-5
 Ages 6-11
 Ages 12-17
  

The Massachusetts Statewide Summer Library Program is funded by the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

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