Summer Reading 2025: Color Our World

 

The Queen Anne’s County Summer Reading Program theme for 2025 is “Color Our World.” Using this theme, the library will have programs, book clubs, events and reading challenges encouraging participation for people of all ages and interests. Summer Reading is for everyone from birth to adult to join in the fun. Registration is open to all ages.

Beginning June 2, register at the Centreville or Kent Island Branches, visit the Mobile Library, or register online at https://qaclibrary.beanstack.com/reader365. Youth registrants will receive a FREE Summer Reading t-shirt and Summer Reading Guide, while supplies last. Adult registrants will receive a FREE QACL tote bag and Summer Reading Guide, while supplies last.

The Summer Reading Guide includes a calendar of events, gameboards to complete and turn in at the end of summer for free books, and more! Each time you visit the library throughout the summer; you can enter to win great Summer Reading prizes. You also can participate online using the library’s Beanstack app at https://qaclibrary.beanstack.com/reader365. Users can participate in earning badges and enter to win bi-weekly prizes for all ages.

All Summer Reading events are open to the public, with no registration required. Just come out and participate in the awesome Summer Reading activities the library has planned.

 

 

 

Queen Anne’s County Library

Summer Reading Suggestions

Provided by: Jenny Gallagher, Youth Services Librarian

 

Birth-5

A Unicorn, a Dinosaur, and a Shark Were Riding a Bicycle by Jonathan Fenske

Mermaid Day by Diana Murray

Gustavo the Shy Ghose by Flavia Drago

Our Dragon by Mem Fox

Construction Site: Farming Strong, All Year Long by Sherri Duskey Rinker

 

Elementary Grade

Dragon Girl Series by Maddy Mara

Mercy Watson Series by Kate DiCamillo

The Princess in Black Series

Scare School Diaries by Jarrett Lerner

The Bad Guys Series by Aaron Blabey

 

Middle Grade

Miles Morales Suspended by Jason Reynolds

Isabel in Bloom by Mae Respicio

Charlie Thorne Series by Stuart Gibbs

Sink or Swim by Lee Durfey-Lavoie

Sweet Valley Twins

Series by Francine

Pascal

 

Teens

The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

Where Wolves Don’t Die by Anton Treuer

Betting on You by Lynn Painter

Icarus by K. Ancrum

 

 

QAC Library Book of the Month Pick

The Gate, The Girl, and the Dragon by Grace Lin

Young Jin the lion cub would rather spend his time playing sports, but his serious dad insists on family duty. When the Sacred Sphere their family is bound to protect rolls beyond their realm and through the Old City Gate, Jin finds himself in the human world in an urgent quest to locate the sphere. Jin must learn to trust himself, a young girl, and a tiny worm while learning from the wisdom of folktales woven into the book if he wants to see his family again. Newbery Honoree Grace Lin spins her first novel- length tale in fifteen years, sure to captivate young readers with a story that begs to be read aloud and savored.