Join us Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 12:00 – 3:00 p.m. for our Kickoff Event!
This year’s theme is “Plant a seed, read!” Youth ages 0-17 can participate in this program.
Pick up a folder for Summer Reading and receive:
- Your first tracker sheet
- Giveaway prizes
- Events calendar and flyers
- A ticket for one FREE Hawaiian ice from Kona Ice (their truck will be parked behind the Library from 12:00 – 3:00 p.m.)
- A craft to add to our “Garden of Good Intentions”
Can’t make the kickoff? No problem! Pick up a folder any time after this event during regular Library hours.
How Summer Reading works:
- Use a tracker sheet to record how much you read.*
- Color in one bubble on your tracker sheet for every 10 minutes that you read or someone reads to you. Read printed books (including graphic novels!) or ebooks, or listen to audiobooks or playaways. They all count!
- When you fill up a tracker sheet, bring it back to Lenox Library to receive a free book and one “Chance to Win” ticket. (You’ll place your “Chance to Win” ticket into the container for the prize you would like to try to win). You also will get another tracker sheet.
- The first tracker sheet you turn in also earns you an ice cream gift card!
- After the End of Summer Reading Party, we will pull one ticket from each container and award that prize to a lucky winner. (Limit one prize per child).
*Summer Reading Challenge: Help us reach our goal of 600 completed tracker sheets! For every one tracker sheet you turn in, $1.00 will be donated to the Lenox Ecumenical Food Pantry! Thank you to BIRCH Properties for their generous donation!
Join us for exciting activities, listed below, including our End of Summer Reading Party happening Saturday, August 22, 2026, 12:00-2:00 p.m. We will learn how many tracker sheets were turned in and if we reached our donation goal!