Welcome to the East Lansing Public Library

Pre-K Summer Reading Program!

This program is for pre-readers age 0-4 years old and is design for children their grownups to read and complete fun early literacy activities together!

We can't wait to see you at our special summer programs, which you can find posted on ELPL.ORG's Events calendar. Visit the Summer Reading page on our website for more information or contact Gillian, the Youth Services Librarian at gstreet@cityofeastlansing.com

Welcome to the East Lansing Public Library

Children’s Summer Reading Program!

Ages 5 to 12 can read for 15 minutes a day through the summer to be entered into a grand prize drawing! Any kind of reading counts: print books, audio books, digital books, comics and graphic novels, and magazines. If you are reading to someone else or someone else is reading to you, that counts toward your minutes!

You can track your minutes on paper or here through our ReadSquared site or free app. Completing 18 hours of reading will put you into a prize drawing for one of our grand prizes: bubble wands, books, a mini camera, Schuler's Books gift cards, a Nintendo Switch Lite, even an Amazon Fire! If you complete all the bonus challenges (activities include listening to an audio book, playing a game, attending a library summer program, and more), you can get a second grand prize entry. You also can decorate a fish for our Wave Wall (and another a fish for every 5 hours more that you read!)

Visit the Summer Reading page on our website for more information or contact Gillian, the Youth Services Librarian at gstreet@cityofeastlansing.com.

The teen summer reading program is designed for those who are 12-18 years old and is minutes based with optional missions.  You can track your participation virtually, here on ReadSquared, or with a paper log from the library or printed out at home.  

Have fun reading this summer and we hope to see you at teen events at the library!  Visit the Summer Reading page on our website for more information or contact Janis, the Teen Services Specialist, at jsalomon@cityofeastlansing.com.

Read five books by the end of the summer and your name will be entered into drawings for grand prizes. Consider reading books that match the following challenges:

Spend some time reading by the water

Read a book by an author you’ve never read before

Read a book recommended by a friend, family member, or library staff

Read a book about or featuring water

Read a book about "new possibilities"

Track your participation online or with a paper log. 

We hope you enjoy your Summer Reading experience and we encourage you to send your reviews, comments, pictures, and overall summer reading updates to amoreno@cityofeastlansing.com, and we’ll share them on our social media and website.