June 21 – August 15
Howe Library Summer Reading Program has something for everyone, no matter what your age and interest. Check out our reading challenges below and go to our events page for more fun happenings.
Our 2025 Summer Reading Brochure
Kids (Ages 0-12)
Kids Summer Reading Challenge
This year’s summer reading challenge starts on Saturday, June 21st. Pick up your reading log, summer reading t-shirt, and coupon for a slice of pizza starting at 10 am! Reading logs will be available all summer, but t-shirts and pizza coupons are while supplies last.
For this year’s summer reading challenge
- Read or listen to a book for your usual amount of time.
- Color in a circle on the flowers on the reading log for each reading session. After five reading sessions, return to the library and collect your prize – a free book!
- Keep reading! You will earn a prize ticket for each reading session 6-10. Use your tickets to enter to win a variety of prizes, gift cards to LEGO. Prize entries can be completed at the Children’s Desk.
- Don’t want to stop after completing your first reading log? Ask us for another log to keep reading. You’ll receive two tickets for every additional log you complete. Winners will be notified by the end of August . Please make sure your email and phone number is correct on all ticket entries.
Teens (Ages 12-19)
Teens Summer Reading Challenge Ages 12-19
Howe Library is hosting a teen-specific Summer Reading Challenge for ages 12-19 and exciting summer programming!
Adults
Adult Summer Reading Challenge
Choose three summer reading-themed activities to complete from our challenge.
You will be entered into a raffle for a $100 gift card of your choice from Michael’s or Bean’s Art Store.
Return completed maps to the Information Desk by August 17th. Raffle winner will be chosen on August 18th.
Summer Community Reads
This summer, we’ll be reading The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel.
“Stéphane Bréitwieser is the most prolific art thief of all time. He pulled off more than 200 heists, often in crowded museums in broad daylight. His girlfriend served as his accomplice. His collection was worth an estimated $2 billion. He never sold a piece, displaying his stolen art in his attic bedroom. He felt like a king.
Until everything came to a shocking end.
In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, Michael Finkel gives us one of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of our times, a riveting story of art, theft, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.“
Pick up a free copy of The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession, by Michael Finkel, at the Information Desk starting June 21.
Join your community in reading this summer reading-themed book and for these programs:
Provenance and The Art Thief – Thursday, July 24 at 6:30 p.m. (Hybrid)
with Ashley Offill, Curator of Collections at the Hood Museum.
More Info
The Art Thief Book Discussion – August 5 at 6:00 p.m.
Little Hood @ The Howe
Join us this summer for a collaboration between the Howe Library and the Hood Museum! Come visit the Little Hood @ the Howe, in the New Books area, and find adult art kits supplied by the Hood. Take these kits home or do them at the library, and check back every week or so for new kits!
