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Summer is here, and graphic novels are the vibe of the season. Check out our top recommendations!
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Are you up for the Ultimate Summer Challenge? Sign up and be entered to win awesome prizes. This isn’t your ordinary reading challenge. There will be in-person, outdoor, virtual programs, and activities for at home or in the community for kids, teens and adults.
Have fun this summer with cool ways to track your reading and register for free today. The challenge runs July 1 - August 31.
Read every day for two months starting July 1, and be sure to track your progress on your very own challenge map. Bring your map back to any Library location to get a new map sticker for every seven days of reading. You can also complete a reading badge to be displayed at your Library.
Before you know it, your map will be full of fun, underwater creatures.
Central Library | All ages | July 6
Summer reading just got even more fun! From 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at Central Library, enjoy a day filled with scavenger hunts and other activities, all while finding books to complete the Ultimate Summer Challenge.
Find your next great book with Beanstack with personalized reading recommendations sent every week to your inbox. Once you sign up for free, you can track your reading on the physical map or on the app — either way, you’re eligible for all the Ultimate Summer Challenge grand prizes.
There are incredible prizes that you could win for every age group participating in the challenge.
Ages 0 – 5:
Ages 6 – 12
Ages 13 – 17 and 18+:
Teens
Summer is here, and graphic novels are the vibe of the season. Check out our top recommendations!
School-age Kids
Celebrate summer with these great reads for children ages 8 – 12.
Babies and Toddlers
Beat the heat with these stories of summer fun, sunshine, and adventure.
Adults
Fill your Summer Challenge Maps with smart, explosive, action-packed thrillers. Yes! Adults can have fun reading too.
Teens
Travel through time with characters in these books to the past or to the future.
Adults
Twelve of our favourites, for beginners and the more experienced gardener, with expert advice, step-by-step instructions, and lots of inspiration.
School-age kids
Summer is here and these are some great titles read under the shade of a friendly tree.
Teens
A list of contemporary romance books for young adults. The main requirements: must be set during the summer, and there must be l-o-v-e!
Adults
Join the Ultimate Summer Challenge and escape into one of our recommended thrillers, perfect for the beach, couch or backyard.
Be sure to follow us on social media — Instagram, Facebook, X, or LinkedIn — for the latest Ultimate Summer Challenge updates. We also want to see your progress! Tag us and use our hashtag #UltimateSummerChallenge as you share with friends and family pictures of books you’ve read, programs you’ve attended, or the progress on your map.
The Ultimate Summer Challenge is part of the TD Summer Reading Club, which is a national program for kids in Canadian public libraries. The Ultimate Summer Challenge is presented by J K L MacLachlan Family Fund.
