Reading Takes You Everywhere!

Sign up for Summer Reading
Want to travel to faraway lands? Sail the Seven Seas? Jump into the future or take a trip into the past? Blast off to Pluto? Get a book, audiobook, or an e-book for a road trip? Or just dive deep into your own imagination? Explore somewhere you’ve always wanted to go? Reading takes you everywhere!

Adults, Teens, and Kids of all ages can read for prizes and everyone gets a free book just for signing up! (While supplies last)

How to play

All ages

Everybody reads this summer! Berkeley Public Library 2018 Summer Reading runs Friday, June 15 through Saturday, September 1.

Sign up online or at any library location. New this year: every person who signs up receives a free book. To participate, check each of the 30 boxes on your game card by engaging in 30 library-related activities. You'll find more information on your game card.

Kids

Download the kid's game card, or pick it up at any library location. When you complete it, visit the library to collect your prize. Then add your name to the Wall of Fame.

Teenagers and adults (ages 12 and up)

Download the 12 & up game card, or pick it up at any library location. When you complete your game card, you’re eligible to enter the raffle. Each time you complete a game card, you may enter the raffle. Raffle prizes: Kindle Fire, guitar, ukulele, Berkeley Walking Food Tour, Sports Basement gift certificate, two tickets to a Landmark Theater, Sushinista gift certificate, Kitchen On Fire cooking class, and Blick Art Materials gift certificate.

Teens readers may pick up their finishing prize at any library location. One finishing prize per teen reader. Prizes available while supplies last. One raffle prize per person.

Central

Branches

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Mon

12-8

10-6

Closed

Tue

10-8

10-6

Wed

10-6

10-8

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Thu

10-6

12-8

Fri

10-6

Sat

10-6

Sun

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Closed