RILINK: Rhode Island Library Information Network for Kids: 2025 Summer Reading

Check out a sample of this seminal work. Cahill, Horvath and Franzen promote access, choice and support to prevent the summer slide.

This research brief from the National Summer Learning Association may the rationale for summer reading during discussions among your stakeholders

OLIS: A ONE STOP SHOP FOR SUMMER READING RESOURCES

Click here to learn here about the OLIS-supported summer reading program at your public library branches and find links to other useful summer reading resources.

May 12- August 25!

Sora is offering a collection of free, simultaneous-use ebooks (and select audiobooks) that spans grades K-12. These titles will be available to participating schools and prominently displayed in Sora so it’s easy for students to find their next sweet read.

Unite for Books Online Library

The Unite for Literacy online library is free to everyone as a digital public good. There are more than 600 original picture books in the library, written in English, Spanish or Ukrainian text and narrated in 50+ languages. Unite books are short, colorful, and easy to understand with picture/text format and audio support in home languages. New books and languages are added frequently.

With One School, One Book, you select a book and each student in your school receives a copy to read at home as a family. At school, students celebrate and explore the novel with their classmates. This essential strategy reinforces reading instruction, increases parental involvement, bridges the home-school connection, and builds a true community of readers.

September is the official Library Card Sign Up month, but your students can sign up for a card any time!

Still going strong after 40 years, the Pizza Hut Book-It program offers a pizza reward for kids who read! Click on the logo and share the enrollment link with your families.

Barnes & Noble offers a free book to kids who read eight books between July 1 and August 31, and record them on a special log. We are waiting for the 2025 information! Check back here!