Many thanks to this year’s Summer Reading Program sponsors!
Their generous donations helped with program materials, events, and prizes. We are grateful to have such wonderful and supportive local businesses as Champions of Literacy.
Gold Sponsors
Partnership Financial Credit Union | ProAuto
For Youth
Birth through Grade 8
Registration is now closed.
How to Participate
Record Your Reading
Record your reading on the log by marking off a numbered square for every day that you read. We encourage you to read at least 20 minutes a day, but any amount of reading counts. Listening to audiobooks and reading together as a family counts too.
Complete Weekly Activities and Attend Events
Mark off squares labeled 'activity or event' in the bonus round of your log when you complete weekly in-Library activities and/or attend events. See our full list of programs for June and July.
Heading out of town or can’t get to the Library? Try one of these activities from home!
Use scrap slips of paper to create paper stars following a tutorial from our Creative Bug database. An account is free with your Library card!
Play a learning game from our Scholastic Teachables database. You can log in with your Library card, find a game or fun worksheet for your grade level, and have fun!
Try your hand at cooking something with your family. Try a recipe from around the globe with our A to Z World Food database.
Take a walk around your vacation spot and point out things that are similar or different from home. Talk about it with your family and, if possible, take pictures to show us when you’re back.
Earn Prizes
Stop in and collect prizes as you earn them. Mark off a whole level of squares (12 days) to earn that level's prize and a Grand Prize Drawing entry. Levels must be completed in order. Complete all levels plus the bonus round to earn an extra drawing ticket and a place on our Wall of Fame!
Level 1 prize: Summer Reading T-shirt
Level 2 prize: Book and Coupons
Level 3 prize: Glow-in-the-Dark Frisbee or Bath Toy (ages 0-2)
Grand Prize Drawings: You choose the prize by putting your drawing entries in the box of the prize you hope to win. Winners will be notified during the first full week of August.
Deadline for checking in to collect prizes is July 31
For Adults & Teens
Grades 9 and older
Complete a log in-person or online between June 1 and July 31 to tell us about:
Books you read
Movies and shows you watch
Music you listen to
Video games you play
Library programs you participate in
Complete and submit your first log to be entered into the prize drawings and get a Summer Reading t-shirt (while supplies last)!
Prizes
Complete and submit additional logs for a chance to win weekly drawings for Summer Reading coozies and the grand prize drawings on July 1 and August 1.
Grand Prizes
Teens (Grades 9–12)
July: Swim Pack (Donation: Morton Grove Park District)
August: Raising Cane’s Gift Card
Adults
July: Cooper’s Hawk Gift Card
August: Themed Prize Basket