2026 Plant a Seed, Read Adult Summer Reading will run from Monday, June 22nd through Saturday, August 1st. Reading logs and raffle entries must be completed and returned by Tuesday, August 4th
Here’s how the Adult Summer Reading Program works:
Register online or at the library.
Read or listen to ANY book, attend a program, or complete a Take & Make craft kit to earn tickets for our 6 raffles.
Read 30 hours during the six weeks of summer reading and submit your reading tracker to win a special prize!
Need some ideas on what to read or listen to next? Check out the many lists our staff have made over on our catalog. Want to get started with Libby, the FREE app to access e-books and e-audiobooks? Click here to learn how!
Reading Tracker
- Keep track of how long you read (this includes time listening to audiobooks!)
- For every hour that you read, color in a flower petal on your tracker.
- For every 10 hours that you read, you get a raffle entry!
- When your reading tracker is complete, turn it in or email a copy to epalmer@ewmlibrary.org to get a special Easthampton Public Library enamel flower pin.
Raffle
You can submit your raffle entries in person at the library or online using our online form!
- You earn a raffle ticket for every:
- Library program you attend (check out our calendar to see all the events happening during summer reading!)
- Take-and-make craft you complete
- Book you read/listen to
- 10 hours of reading filled out on your reading tracker
- Enter for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to:
- Book Moon Books!
- Small Oven Bakery!
- Bridgeburners Bookshop!
- Guild Art Supply!
- Lucky’s Tattoo ($50)!
- Pause & Pivot – Farm Kitchen Workshop!
Plant a Seed, Read is sponsored by Emily’s Friends of the Easthampton Public Library, the Massachusetts Library System, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.