You will earn prizes and coupons to local restaurants for doing something many already do: reading. All high school students will get a free t-shirt and book for completing the summer reading program. You will also earn tickets for every hour you read that you can use to enter a drawing for one of our five prize baskets!

Prize Baskets for 2025 are:

Reading Basket

• Includes: the book Ready Player One by Ernist Cline, New Amazon Kindle, Amazon Kindle Cover, and a Gaming Bookmark

D&D Starter Basket

• Includes: 2014 Dungeon Master’s Guide, 2014 Monster Manual, 2014 Player’s Handbook, Dice Tower, and Dice

Video Game Survival Basket

• Includes: Neon Sign, Gameboy Mug, Stardew Valley Plush, 2 Video Game Controllers compatible with every system, Cheetos, and Sour Patch Gum

Movie Night Essentials Basket

• Includes: Popcorn Maker, Movie Night Popcorn Set, Fuzzy Blanket, and a Projector with WiFI and Bluetooth capabilities

Board Game Night Basket

• Includes: Catan, Pac-Man Board Game, Playing Cards, Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza, Puzzle-Shaped Charcuterie Board, and a Fun Drink Tumbler

Public libraries report all these statistics to the state government, which affects our funding. The more program sign-ups we have, the better!

What counts as reading?

The Teen summer reading program counts the hours that you read. You need to read 24 hours to complete the summer reading program. That’s only 20 minutes a day!

This way it is a little more fair with the people taking their time reading Dune and the people whipping through ALL the manga books. You are free to choose whichever materials you would like to read. Any of this counts:

• Traditional print books you can hold in your hands
• eBooks on a Kindle, Chromebook, phone
• Comic books, also known as graphic novels
• Audiobooks
• Articles (newspapers, magazines)