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Summer Reading 2024

Light our Imaginations

Summer Reading2024Light our Imaginations
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Let's Get Reading! 📚

This template will help communicate the joy of reading, share a whole lot of great titles, and provide concrete suggestions for how parents can make reading feel like a summer treat.


Everyone has a reader within them 📖

🔗 “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” - Jhumpa Lahiri 🔗 “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” - Jhumpa Lahiri

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Books are

A uniquely portable magic.”

- Stephen King

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"If you

Don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

- JK Rowling

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"Never trust

Anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

- Lemony Snicket

What to Read? 📖 What to Read? 📖

Summer is a great time to learn about the environment!
Biography, non-fiction, & fiction books exploring everything a child or teen would want to learn about our planet and eco-systems. Plus, find all kinds of other great booklists on this site!
2024 Youth Media Award Winners | American Libraries Magazine

2024 Youth Media Award Winners | American Libraries Magazine

ALA announced the recipients of its 2024 Youth Media Awards at its LibLearnX conference in Baltimore on January 22.

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Advice for Parents 👩🏻‍🏫 Advice for Parents 👩🏻‍🏫

Advice for Parents with Struggling Readers at Home
This 3-min blog post shares tips for how Smore's Resident Educator got her son with ADHD interested in reading.
Books to Read Before You Stream the Adaptation | Brightly

Books to Read Before You Stream the Adaptation | Brightly

Kids love to watch movies and tv shows, so why not motivate more reading with book choices that have stream-able adaptations? Many great children's books have been adapted as movies or television series, just take your pick from the list below!

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Need More Ideas? Here are 18 of them!
All of them designed to help you demonstrate to your child that reading is a privilege and a pleasure.
Kara Stern, Ph.D.
Director of Education & Engagement 🍎
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