Summer Reading Challenge 2026
What is Summer Reading?
Reading over the summer helps prevent the summer slide, the set back that happens over the summer. The first six weeks of school in the fall are spent catching up to where students were at the end of the previous school year.
The Summer Reading Challenge encourages children and teens to read over the summer by allowing them to earn prizes and enter raffles for every book they read!
Step 1: Register starting 5/14: https://finkelsteinlibraryny10.readsquared.com/
Step 2: Pick up your Welcome Prize in the Children’s Room starting 6/29
Step 3: Review your first book and pick up your Starter Bag in the Children’s Room starting 6/29
Step 4: Review the books you read this summer (any books, from anywhere!) from 6/29-8/9
Step 5: Enter your raffle tickets on your ReadSquared account
Step 6: Receive free prizes based on the number of books reviewed during Prize Pickup Week 8/12-8/18 (hours to be sent to registrants).
3 Ways to Review
SUMMER READING
REGISTRATION
Online at finkelsteinlibraryny10.readsquared.com/
On your device with the ReadSquared App
Registration & Book Reviewing
In person in the Children’s Room with our Teen Volunteers.
Teen Volunteers will be available in the Children’s Room:
Fri.: 10 AM – 5 PM
Sat: 9 AM – 12:30 PM
Sun: 1 PM – 4:30 PM
What Prizes Can You Earn?
Review 1 book = Pick a Free Book
Review 3 books = Get a swag bag + free book
Review 5 books = Get a prize of your choice + swag bag + free book
Incoming Gr. K-6: EVERY BOOK READ ALSO EARNS 1 raffle ticket toward winning one of our grand prize 10 raffle baskets:
Dirt Dweller, Dynamic Dinos, Rampaging Dinosaurs, Glittering Gems, Center of the Earth, Garden Gnomes, School Daze, Back to School, Ancient World, The Burrowers
Incoming Gr. 7-12: EVERY BOOK READ ALSO EARNS 1 raffle ticket toward winning one of our 5 grand prize rafflle baskets: Self Care, Influencers, Gamers, Snacks Around the World, or Good Vibes Room Decor
Don’t forget to submit your raffle entries on your ReadSquared account!